This is a very interesting short film about a man and his young son making an incredibly long and difficult trek into town to get their television fixed. While this sounds like a very dull topic, the film is excellent because it is well constructed AND it's amazing to those in more developed countries than Romania to see the lengths to which these people go for television. In many ways, this reminded me of one of the best international films I have seen in recent months--LA GRAN FINAL. In LA GRAN FINAL, three groups from the farthest reaches of the globe (Niger in the Sahara, Outer Mongolia and the Brazilian rain forest) go to amazing lengths just to see the World Cup finals. It really makes you appreciate how much you have and take for granted. I wish kids in the more developed parts of the world could all see this--just so they understand how good they have it.
By the way, there is one problem with the film and that's the unnecessarily crude language. It might be that the people who subtitled the film were too free with the vulgarities or this could just be exactly that the people really said. Either way, for a family film it has language that many sailors might think twice about using--especially in front of the little boy in the film.
By the way, there is one problem with the film and that's the unnecessarily crude language. It might be that the people who subtitled the film were too free with the vulgarities or this could just be exactly that the people really said. Either way, for a family film it has language that many sailors might think twice about using--especially in front of the little boy in the film.
