This statement may be true but let us not forget that drunken people and children always tell the truth and boy there's a lot of truth being told in this movie.
It's a perfectly crafted and constructed dark comedy I had the privilege to watch at TIFF a few days ago, that movie which makes me forget to look at my phone, makes me forget that I'm a little bit cold, there are mosquitoes and it's late at night. I enjoyed every moment of it.
Yes, dark, surreal, funny, at times suffocating, pleasantly idealistic and profoundly touching, due to the fantastic writing, directing and acting.
Also it was/is a haunting experience, a movie that stays with one after watching it, at least in my case it's still here and it keeps me thinking about, among other things the hardship of being a politician (the unimaginable things that one is capable to do in order to keep one's power) and a person at the same time. I imagined my own country's ministers doing the same outraging things that the ones on the screen were doing and I can't help but say to myself that it's not all fiction, or it's not fiction at all, inspiration for any kind of art comes from nowhere else than reality and there's a perfectly matching saying that fits the experience of this movie, reality beats the movies...
A dreamlike construction, the story of a son who forgets everything else when it comes to his father, the story of a father who never gives up on his son and much more, the perfect puzzle that ads up beautifully at the end.
Review of What a Country!
