Saturday, December 29, 2007
REVOLUTION?
Today's movie was the light-weight Romanian farce
A fost sau n-a fost? / The 12:08 To Bucharest
It is so light weight as to float off the screen but it is still very funny. And serious.
The second half is a call-in panel show about the revolution that occurred 18 years before.
The first half is about the mundane lives of the panelists pre-show time.
The validity of eye witness history is engaged.
Who was there? Who was there first? How were they there?
And does any of this mean anything at all?
There is a neat analogy for a revolution and how it works.
There are other funny bits.
You don't have to Romanian or Eastern European to get it.
I am glad that I saw it.
It is a curiosity as well as a neat skewering of the pomposity built into a talking head show.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
