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Haunting

posted 11 years ago by inveneris
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Raw and subtle.

Best suited for those with (some) basic knowledge of the Ceausesco regime and its history.

"Raw" because it consists spliced and uncommented archive pictures, without any referance to dates or names. "Subtle" because rather than being served a version of the truth, we are forced to look for clues in material never approved for public presentation.

In its form - not being propaganda for or against the regime - this documentary is a protest against any world view based on lies and manipulations of the masses. The price: a very challenging narrative, where not much is given to us pre-conceived.

The last images shows us the dictator - stripped of power, sitting beside his wife (his partner in crime), without any defense attorney - as accused in the "summary trial" held against him, calling the courts assertions "lies, mystifications, provocations". Simply hauting.

[–] EmilMuzz 10 years ago

I liked the movie for the most part, but it could have used some dates/names/places. Most of it was pretty easy to figure out without the narration or biased pundits, but it still would have been good to get some of that info esp for the out of sequence parts.

Would have also liked it if they showed his final speech where the crowd turned on him and he's just struggling to get them back. I know you can watch it on Youtube, but it's such an intense moment (the whole world saw it), I don't know why it was left out. Just made this 3+ hour movie feel incomplete.

- or so the Germans would have us believe...

[–] LudwA 8 years ago

most haunting scene, for me, was the moment where some guy in the parliament calls out Nicolae's megalomania and all-out dictatorship, and he gets booed (to say the least) by the entire 'parliament' (i guess we can use quotation marks...)