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Mirciulica (2022)
Beginners begin from somewhere
I think the essence of the movie plot is related to the hard times Romania was offering to its youngsters 15 years ago or more. Lots of places where mediocrity prevailed or meritocracy was something to dream of. As a youngster, you could look weird because you were thinking healthy. Or you could get appreciated but kept somewhere aside as a nice guy, not being able to make an impact and change things. Now we are living in other times. For people not living those times I imagine this movie makes less sense.
Now, how good was the movie in expressing artistically those times or how funny, that's a different story.
I think it looked as made by begineers. Characters could have been better shaped, better played, jokes could have been better, the image overall could have been better. Even if made by, let's say begineers, the movie could have been better by allocating more time to make it.
However, I am happy that Mircea (Bravo) made the movie, going past the youtube sketches and I hope they will get better and better. That's the bottom line.
Pacala (1974)
Free like nature
Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is smart and always makes fun of everything ridiculous about people like stupidity, greed, vanity. Sometimes these people's treats are putting Pacala in all sorts of dangerous situations, but being in connection with the nature, with joy, love for the life and the whole world, he finds ways to prevail. Besides the jokes, the movie manages to express a certain mindset of easiness and free spirit. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever.
Like the hero, found in many folk stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of happiness, freedom and pure connection with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.