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A woman navigates through a deserted city in a post-apocalyptic world: she remembers nothing about who she is or what happened. All she knows is she needs to keep walking. It's not clear what caused humanity to get to this point. She fights off enemies who try to kill her, she steals all the resources she can find and all this while we listen to a beautiful hazy internal monologue which is almost poetic. She then meets a man and forces him to help her get out of the city. He doesn't remember anything either: only that he must kill everyone he finds that is trying to survive. He continues the beautiful monologue while being lost himself. Together they struggle to survive, remember and find meaning in this. I liked how the film didn't follow the usual commercial line for post apocalyptic and sci fi movies. It left a lot for the viewer to interpret, the action was relatively slow and there weren't a lot of characters. At some points though, I wish the plot moved a little faster. Overall a really good movie that I suggest to anyone.

A very warm and sweet film about love, hate and forgiveness. This was really good, and it made me very emotional. I recommend this to people looking for a film on human emotions, especially focused on children, who can be more extreme in their emotions, but in the end long for love and acceptance.

This was the most pleasurable thing I've ever watched. The scenes were beautifully put together. The style changed from black and white to sepia to colourful, sometimes with a blueish tint, sometime with other colours. I loved the saccadic camera movements that matched certain sounds, e.g. a phone ringing. The actresses' styling (clothes, hair, makeup) was also beautiful. The music was very good (e.g. an epic battle kind of piece of music during the cake fight between the girls). I liked the fact that the plot's point was to explore how the girls' reaction to the world's "badness" will end. But there were certain points that I didn't quite understand. I didn't really like how the girls sometimes spoke in a robotic manner, or how they seemed too naive and silly. Maybe that was the point: perfection isn't art anyway. I appreciate the fact that the director (Vera Chytilova) made this film in a time when women didn't have the freedom they have today. One of the main themes in the film is women breaking the barriers of the society they live in, and the rules dictating their behaviour. It really is emblematic in that sense. Overall I really enjoyed watching this film, but I didn't get where the plot was going, and where it actually went, plus the details I mentioned. But I would recommend it to anyone.