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Being a Romainian is a hard job. Especially in the first years after the fall of the Communist regime, people had to learn freedom. The failure of a new democratic political structure led to disorientation. Dan Pita offers a pretty accurate image of what happened in the first years of the 90's. Cheating, illegal business, prostitution, gambling, poverty and suffering are all part of this. The reality is depressing and refutes hope and dignity.

Politics and demagogic speech and acting are involved in this story as well. There are some really good moments in this film that sum up all the vices of the society. The best of them is the scene at the underground station, where Fifi has a chat with the junkie. He tells her:"You'd rather take care of your own life. Be careful about the way you live, because you might regret it later."

like many Romanians films from the first years of democracy. a form of exorcism. reflection of every day reality. cruel, brutal, portrait of social evil, using the confrontation between innocence and ambiguous corruption, few beautiful scenes and great performances. the clichés, the fury, the dialogues with status of declarations are not easy to understand today. but , like many others Romanians movies, before and after 1989 year, Pepe si Fifi has image of a period. testimony more than art. the desire to impress and confess and define the original sin of a sick society is the mark who impose the tone, the rhythm and the dark perspective. it could be defined as trend. but it represents little more. a form of self definition, vulgar, desperate, depressing in the ''90's but present, at the different level, today. as a kind of manifesto and exercise to change social situation.