A fairy tale that gives an inside into the Romanian cultural perception of childhood. The child has skills far surpassing the abilities of a terrorized communist school boy. Yet this is a rudimentary depiction of what the adults would have expected a child to act.
The rest is just fluff to fill up the hour and a half. While the children act how the communist adults expected, the adults all act the way people in isolationist Romania perceived the Americans. The police officer is moving slowly wasting time to meticulously examine the details. The mother is sloppy somehow because she is divorced. The neighbor has lots of goods, yet he seem to be always home, but he lives in a popular building next to the railway.
For me it was a trip into the unpleasant stupidity of the good aspects of the communism. The unprotected rail where trains pass, and children play. And so on. Nice for a trip back time. Crappy for a film.
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