Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on February 01, 2007 at 14:53:23

In Reply to: I did! Excellent film. nt posted by tinear on February 1, 2007 at 14:32:27:

I thought I might be you, but I was not able to find the link through the Search. Want to compare the notes.

My small problem with the film is that while all the things depicted in it are more than true, in today's Russia OK, OK, so it was Estonia... same difference... :-)... OK, the former USSR - there is same shit everywhere there... so while all true, to depict it all happening to one person was a bit overbearing. A true artist should know where to stop - and let the viewer to imagine the rest. Here the director was relentless - stopping just a bit shorter might had created more tension.

But the director is still young, and his humanist aspirations are to be admired.

Overall, not a masterpiece, but a movie everyone (except perhaps AuPh...) should see. Deeply touching and at times painful to watch - in a couple of places I had to tell myself this is not really happening to the nice girl... the scenes of long rows of abandoned buildings are piercing and... oh... so true!