A fable

I see that the reviews which say that this film is a fable were not apppreciated.
Though, everybody agrees that this film has a moral lesson and that it's a dramatization of the previous documentary by the director.

Don't you think that the title, the music (as gradyharp said in his review: «a strange musical score by Wolfgang Hammerschmid who extrapolates Puccini's 'Nessun dorma' and Bach's 'Erbarme dich' and 'Ruhe sanft' from the St Matthew Passion for heavy effects»), the landscapes, the abstractness of most characters, some of which are caricatures, everything makes this like a fable? I thought so since the very beginning of the film, the first few seconds, with that opening...

I appreciate the message of the film, which would be indeed be a useful watch for too many people who don't think about those things, but I think that it took too often the easiest way to convince the viewer and send the message, with sensationalism and stereotypes; moreover, some scenes are really amateurish, in my humble opinion (e.g. when Marek says something crucial and the scene is rapidly repeated three times to stress it).

This is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just the genre, which I don't like much. I've liked the two most personal scenes: when they're on the bridge and David says he couldn't knock the door of his father's house; and when Marek says that he can't live alone (without David). Actually, there are more of them, altough definitely not enough, but you don't even notice them because of the general tone of the film.