If you're as much of a fan of a well conceived prank as much as I am, well, get yourself up,out & to any cinema that is showing Czech Dream. Czech Dream (or Cesky Sen,as it's called),is a well planned out prank by two Czech student film makers that gage reaction in their fellow citizens regarding consumer culture. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989,which led to the formation of the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, people basically wanted the same things that their neighbours in the West wanted:basic creature comforts (and didn't have to stand in endless lines for). Filip Remunda & Vit Klusak have crafted a tongue in cheek black comedy about attacking the vulnerability in people by creating a hypermarket that doesn't exist. It's just a well put together prank (with the film being the making of the prank). The reaction of the Czech masses when they show up to go on a buying frenzy, only to find out that their beloved Cesky Sen is all a prank. Some folk (such as I) will walk away with a perverse smile,like we were just witness to a well put together joke, others will probably walk out, feeling the same anger that some of the shoppers felt. This is a film I would recommend to anyone who is familiar with pranksters such as 'The Yes Men'(who also have a equally sly film documentary on some of their antics,which I also recommend). Czech Dream is a film that one will have to do a bit of searching out to find, but is well worth it.
Review of Ceský sen
