This is surely the most boring and pretentious movie I have ever watched. Even for the artsy standards you can encounter at a festival such as Cph Pix, I found Politist to be a tedious experience. Luckily I persuaded my friend to leave after 70 minutes, at that stage I was outright puzzled by how such a boring piece of cinema could have won such critical acclaim. In fact, I think it is because the movie naturally makes one reflect and meta-analyze about the movie as it unfolds - it is simply not possible to merely enjoy the movie, relate to the characters, get moved by the story - the only way to cope with this miserable movie is to start thinking about it as it unfolds. The story is simple and I suppose the director and proponents wants to make a Kafka/Camus-kinda point about the absurdity of life in some bleak post-communist provincial city in Romania. How this cliché of a movie can be considered prober art and/or entertainment by any intelligent human being is simply beyond me. My advice: don't see it unless you want to see a text book example of boring and pretentious cinema.
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