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If the idea of listening to the same long song three (or was it four?) times, while watching the hero munch his food is your cup of tea, then definitely get the Romanian "Police, Adjective". If observing the guy walk down the street for fifteen minutes turns you on, then you will get your fix.
If all that was not enough to dissuade you from stepping into this experience, then you might be rewarded with a good, albeit different, type of a movie.
I liked it.
But - could someone please explain me the title?
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...to equal the blazing pace of that one.
Still, you might want to look... :)
I hear AuPh is raising funds to shoot a sequel: "Solaris: Adjective"
The sequel to Tversky's epic snoozer has the working title "Soreass: Victor's Journey" and the American version will star George Clooney as a maligned proctologist doing a thankless job. ;^>
AuPh
He's got plywood Hoolywood sign in his backyard, he is definitely one of them.
;O)
Film making tries to condense the time continuum to shorter and shorter snippets like converting a novel into 'Readers Digest' form. I like this film despite its slow pace (boring but real life is boring most of the time). The director uses some of the condensation tricks when going to the next scene because he has to sometimes.
that are no longer than 5 seconds in length. That almost fits my attention span.
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Edits: 11/19/10
his office during a rant?
Anyhow, from the top of my head, "police" can be a verb or an adjective. Since the work was so lethargic, it was more adjectival than active.
I enjoyed the film, too, but am similarly unsure of the "why?" I guess because, instinctively, we realize it's not just this one kid that is at risk, but rather an entire society. And the kid's fate is sealed by a guy who doesn't actually have to do much. Just observe, just passively participate.
A chilling film, in the context of what happened in Russia, E. Germany, and Vichy France.
I saw you mentioned it in the context of the Ceauşescu Romania - but this is not correct. If you pay attention to all the small dating details in the film, it becomes clear it takes place in the 21st century - look at cars, computers, YouTube, phones, etc.
I also didn't see the boss as the guy who does nothing - I thought he was extremely good at his job, turning things around with not much pressure or drama, leading the people under him to their own decisions.
Whether it is just or not to put the kid in jail - a subject to whole another study, outside the scope of this film, I believe. The focus of this one was the internal conflict between the law and morality - the thing perhaps best popularized by the Dirty Harry films... :)
the overwhelming power of the state being visited on a teenage pot smoker was a central point!
And, remember now, the police boss doesn't care if the kid is guilty of what he's allegedly doing: if he is but a casual pot smoker, that's enough to ruin his life. I really think the director is after more than a comment on Draconian pot laws, though, don't you? One doesn't get over a thug like Ceau in a year or two.
I don't think your take of the boss being willing to bust a not guilty guy - I didn't get any sense of that, my impression was he wanted to stick to the law, uphold it, no matter what his or the policeman's personal beliefs were.
I also think the choice of the crime was not too important, as long as it was trivial enough to spur the internal conflict - as this one did. In other words, the director was not after changing drug laws or even their evaluation.
I think the stretch you are making is from the boss simply applying the existing laws with no emotions attached, to the one who does what the old communist guard used to do... their ways are best summarized in a famous quote by Stalin's chief prosecutor Vyshinsky - he stated that the modern society should judge its members not according to the law, but following their conscience.
Be it as it may, law enforcement bending the laws according to their convictions is the surest recipe for lawlessness and abuse. In that sense the boss with his cooler head prevailed and a lesson learned. As far as I recall, the boss does not let his personal feelings on the petty crime known... as it should be.
kid no matter what. We both know that police make decisions on a daily basis, which laws to enforce (55 mph; spitting on sidewalk) which ones to ignore. In this case, the basis for the detective being so persistent in his instructions to the cop were that he felt the kid was involved in trafficking. He wasn't, but the detective (boss) kept pushing the cop to find MORE. The laws were Draconian, as far as I remember, too. No matter how one stretches it, it was just a kid occasionally smoking a joint with his buddies. Imagine if all of us were so punished!
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