Idö van (Time)
Original post date: 26 May 1987
Rating: ✭✭✰✰
You’re watching a movie and there’s a gunfight on screen. As you leave the theater, you notice that someone in the audience has been hit by a stray bullet. When you get home, you open a closet and a train is rushing at you. You stop by work to pick up something, and the guard (who is your uncle) demands your name, birth date, mother’s maiden name, etc. When you refuse, the argument degenerates into a Dodge City-style shoot-out. Your wife has a big black hair growing out of her cheek. And when you cut, it grows back instantaneously. What the hell is going on here? It can only be one thing. Yes, folks, its… surrealism! The director of this Hungarian movie made a semi-comedy that played at the Seattle film festival a few years ago called Time Stands Still, about a group of teenagers, sort of a Hungarian Graffiti. In this flick, time does not stand still. If you like Luis Buñuel’s stuff (especially Le Phantôme de la Liberté), you’ll probably like this. Quite amusing in places. And when I woke up this morning, the world did look a little different to me. And some would argue that that’s what movies are all about.
Rating: ✭✭✰✰
You’re watching a movie and there’s a gunfight on screen. As you leave the theater, you notice that someone in the audience has been hit by a stray bullet. When you get home, you open a closet and a train is rushing at you. You stop by work to pick up something, and the guard (who is your uncle) demands your name, birth date, mother’s maiden name, etc. When you refuse, the argument degenerates into a Dodge City-style shoot-out. Your wife has a big black hair growing out of her cheek. And when you cut, it grows back instantaneously. What the hell is going on here? It can only be one thing. Yes, folks, its… surrealism! The director of this Hungarian movie made a semi-comedy that played at the Seattle film festival a few years ago called Time Stands Still, about a group of teenagers, sort of a Hungarian Graffiti. In this flick, time does not stand still. If you like Luis Buñuel’s stuff (especially Le Phantôme de la Liberté), you’ll probably like this. Quite amusing in places. And when I woke up this morning, the world did look a little different to me. And some would argue that that’s what movies are all about.
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