Reviews

First of all let me destroy a wrong perception: this is not a movie about Romania or about the Romanian society. People should stop thinking like Iliescu that all Romanian movies with bad things happening are a critique to the society (Iliescu prohibited in the 90 Rona Hartner from entering Romania and her movie Gadjo Dilo). There are a lot of prison movies American, Russian or from other parts that treat the sociological aspect of imprisonment, but this is not one of them.

This movie is just a portrait of a drama. The main character is a forced to grow adolescent who knows nothing about the society and is sentenced to in-adaptability. His only connections with the world, thin threads of dreams that he hangs on without even knowing why, are his brother that he is trying to protect even without any resources, and his unfulfilled and destined to die love for Ana. This kid probably knows he has no future and this eruption of violence is just the inevitable. As inevitable as his permanence in the only system that integrates him. Who knows, if this would not have happen he would have done other stuff to stay inside.

In an ocean of solitude he got his 5 minutes date with the girl with whom doesn't shares not even the taste of a coffee.