Principles of Life

I didn't enjoy the movie much - it bored me to hell - but the reason is that I already know how a Romanian lives. The guy in the movie looks and acts a lot like my brother in law, too, so I couldn't feel like I've learned anything from the film. The experience could be completely different for a non Romanian person.

The actors are playing OK, especially the main character. Their characters are all archetypes of personality, roles that they play in their lives like the actors play them in the film. There is the father, proud and feeling in control, but actually lacking much of it; there is the annoying adolescent son, who isn't a bad kid, but is completely self centered; there is the good mother, her new family staying friends with the separated husband's and there is the ridiculous world around them. And then the movie ends.

I really wish there would have been something funnier or deeper in all of this.