MovieChat Forums > Moartea domnului Lazarescu (2005) Discussion > Where are the last 20 secs of the movie?

Where are the last 20 secs of the movie?

posted 17 years ago by aghiugan
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I hope you had a chance to see the movie in theaters as opposed to DVD release, for the DVD ("TARTAN VIDEO" is the one I am talking about) lacks the last 20 secs of the movie. These 20 secs of the movie show Mr. Lazarescu layed on the bed facing the wall - if I am remembering well - waiting for to be transported in the surgery room. The camera starts from a close shoting of his body and gradually departs so that one can see more of the room where he sits in the center of the image.
This scene is very important IMHO for it highliths the tragism of the fate of the main character. It makes you wonder "What now? Why isn't he carried at once into the surgery room? Why all this delay?"
Unfortunatelly these last 20-30 secs have been cut out from the US release ... (I wonder who took this decision?).

--Tony

[–] enderwigg 16 years ago

I watched it on Sundance channel last night, and it was all there. I wonder why the DVD cut this? Where does the DVD end?

[–] marcjennings 16 years ago

I just watched it on television and it ended with him first tilting is head lifelessly towards the camera only to regain control and face towards the ceiling again. I thought the ending was appropriate, for a second you think he has died and then he goes back to his original position and it cuts to black.

Whether or not he survived the surgery we will never know but I think he may have made it just in time thanks for the paramedic who he owes his life and those three cats can welcome back there owner.

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