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Romania, 1987, the brutal Ceausescu communist regime is in place; birth control is illegal and abortion is a crime punishable by death. Gabita (Laura Vasliu) is almost five months into an unwanted pregnancy and in meek desperation turns to her friend and roommate, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) for help in organizing an illegal termination.
I really liked this movie. Well done.
From one of the reviews:
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This is not an anti-abortion movie as the director said. There is no political statement. It is just a daily life of a few Romanians during the period and you can feel it through this movie.
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
I don't know why I waited so long to see this movie. It is so much better than I could have imagined.
Hello winrunner!
I like this movie - we own in, in fact, but there's a 'hole' in the ending which bothers me enormously. As a writer myself, I'm always disappointed when this happens in an otherwise outstanding movie.
At the end, when the mother finds her son's clothes, she assumes the worst without having any evidence of the worst - and mothers don't do that. A mother might *fear* the worst, but any mother would hope for the best until concrete evidence forced her to do otherwise.
Even the father could NOT have known the fate of his son simply from observing an empty barracks, as the boy could have been anywhere in the camp, or even not have been in the camp at all anymore - there's nothing to indicate either.
A more credible ending, I think (FWIW), would have been for the father to find something personal of his son's in the outer room to the gas chamber, and for his death to be confirmed, smoke pouring out of the smokestack would have been more compelling. Had Vera Farmiga seen that, after hearing her husband scream his son's name out in terror, her reaction to finding (Bruno's) her son's clothes beside the fence to the death camp would have been understandable. There was simply no sufficient full stop (or period) at the end of the script, and there could have been, and (IMO) the script needed it.
Otherwise, a truly outstanding film, which is why we own it, of course.
Have you see The Flowers of War? If not, I think you'd like it. It's one of those movies that never leaves you and it's brilliantly written and performed. Christian Bale is wonderful in this... life-altering true story.
Have you see The Flowers of War? If not, I think you'd like it. It's one of those movies that never leaves you and it's brilliantly written and performed. Christian Bale is wonderful in this... life-altering true story.
God bless,
Mahrie.
I haven't seen The Flowers of War so I will check it out. Thank you for the recommendation
ETA: I hope my DM makes sense. I'm a little under the weather and I just realized that I repeated something you already said. Mea culpa
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