Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Out (2017, György Kristóf)

Even in its home country this is not known as Vychladnutie, but under the English title. It is a bit sad, that everything needs to have an English title, if it wants to be something. So is this something?
We are in the Hungarian-speaking community of Slovakia. Agoston is a 50+ man who is fired from his job for the sake of reconstruction of economy and blabla - see any argument by any neo-liberal. He finds a job offer from a company in Latvia and is hired fro that job. However, bribes obviously  are are strong force in that society, so he gets a job in a shipbuilding factory. Quickly he becomes unpopular with the foreman. So Agoston leaves that work. Fishing is his passion. He buys the necessary equipment and seems to hope that he will be able to make a living from selling fish.
In Latvia he meets strange people - like Gaida who collects grass for dead rabbits. There is also the wife of a Russian friend, who looks like a plastic doll, who still is very much in favor of a natural life style. At last he makes his dream come true, altough not as he had hoped. All this is somewhat amusing, even entertaining, but ultimately pointless and irrelevant.
5/10



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