joachimt wrote: ↑December 16th, 2018, 9:34 am
Armoreska wrote: ↑December 16th, 2018, 8:52 am
joachimt wrote: ↑December 16th, 2018, 7:43 am
Was I the only one who didn't understand the scheme for a while?
The first few times I was thinking: How can they make money if they get someone else to pay for their bill? It took me a while to get that the waiter was into the scheme as well and they didn't actually eat any meal, so there was no bill to pay. I felt so stupid.
There was a brief scene showing them
getting paid
I don't remember the order of things exactly, but I think that scene
didn't make me realize. I still thought: How can they get paid for having dinner and let someone else pay for it? There was another scene where the woman said something like "take it easy, we still have to drink coffee here for at least two hours". That's when I realized they were only having coffee.
I also didn't clue in until the scene that Armo mentioned, which I think took place after the one joachim mentioned. Still took me a while to figure it all out.
Saw
Deveti krug two years ago when I was managing Croatia and considering it for my second round pick. Didn't feel like rewatching it again. It's an earnest tragic story that's good, but not great.
Filantropica has been high on my list for ages, so it's good to finally get around to watching it. It was pretty good, though at times I was a tad confused with what was going on with all the duplicitous schemes. Still, it was a decent black comedy, and if this film was the start of the Romanian New Wave that paved the way for some of my favourites, then I owe it that as well. I just wish the lead character wasn't so pathetic (though he did have some great moments, such as during the talk show).
Nomad was weird. Didn't really hold my interest, plus
I don't understand what happened in the hotel room. Was that the designer lady? Why was she in the same room? Was she a lesbian? Why did she whisper "I love you" on the phone? Also, the last 5 minutes were just ridiculous and spoiled any goodwill that had been building up within me.
The ennui of young lovers is occasionally interesting, but there was too much randomness going on for me to really enjoy it.
At this point it seems like Croatia's got this one in the bag, but I'll be happy if either Balkan nation wins this match. I don't think I've encountered a bad film from either country (yet).
1. ROM Filantropica [Philanthropy] - 7.5ish
2. CRO Deveti krug [The Ninth Circle] - 7.4
3. HKG Lie huo qing chun [Nomad] - 5.5ish