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Six Feet Under: Everyone's Waiting (2005)
What else is there to say?
I'm awestruck. Breathless. Unbelieveing. The conclusion of the whole nine yards of this masterpiece of a series just leaves you sitting there, looking around you, having absolutely no clue what to do, how to go on with your life. You want to grab hold of one of your loved ones, squeeze them hard against you, never wanting to let go. Or you just walk around aimlessly in your garden, trying to get order among the maelstrom of thoughts swirling around in your head. Or you just sit in silence, having the feeling that your guts are trying to digest something as indigestible as an obsidian stone. And then, when you think that it's over, you just realize that it stays with you, for days and days, the movie having created a new and permanent pocket of emotions in your brain, hitting you again and again at the least expected moments.
It kicks you in your stomach like Muhammed Ali would have done. It's like an orgasm you're never going to have again in your whole life. It's serene, beautiful, astonishing, morbid and ironic, and last but not least, utterly true.
The whole series is organic. It grows with you or you grow with it. It seems - even during its seldom seen weaker moments - that it is written and planned to become one monstre psychedelic trip of life, one huge lesson. It's not a series which is meant to go on and on without an end, like you see a lot nowadays. It has a beginning, there is an evolution, and you also get a soul tearing conclusion you will never forget.
Watch all episodes. Slowly, in a dark room, when you are calm, paying attention to all the minuscule details. Join the Fishers, let them be your foster family for a time. You are never going to regret it.
Kontroll (2003)
Some slow passages, but overly an enjoyable experience
***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Antal Nimród is a fresh fish in the movie business, and this is his first film. He has managed to create a piece which can also have an appeal to non-hungarians - although there are some culture-specific aspects depicted in the movie. I think it is not all to hard for viewers from all around the world to accept the fact that to be a minimum-wage metro ticket conductor in a post-socialist society is not exactly the job of your dreams.
Nevertheless the purpose of Kontroll is not so much in describing sociological situations, it's more about the inner turmoil of the main character - you can follow him as he survives one misery after another, and finally manages to get rid of all the demons plagueing him.
Completely shot in the not-all-too-big subway system in Budapest, this piece boasts effective and artfully done photography, as well as very good casting. Acting is fairly good, especially when you look at the performance of side actors. The only problem is that the movie is sometimes a little bit slow, some scenes are dragged out needlessly. Also there are some dialogues which can be considered quite flat, and some of the characters are overhyped and lack a certain touch of reality.
8 out of 10.
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It is worth thinking about the possibility of Bulcsú being a schizophreniac and that he committed the murders himself - the last run could be considered as his last effort - á la Fight Club - to get rid of his evil alter-ego. Also note the metro at the end not stopping - if it had hit somebody, it would have stopped.