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What is the central idea?

posted 11 years ago by id-entity
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[–] kjewitt 11 years ago

I think the film shows us two people who are really in need and says "the only people who are prepared to help are the father and his nuns - but are they worse than no help at all?"

No man will marry a bilakoro

[–] id-entity 11 years ago

Thanks for your reply. I looked it up and it seems that the director is calling this a story about the sin of indifference, which is interesting because the most famous film to come out of Romania this century was about the same subject.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456149/

[–] JacquesDemy 11 years ago

Human suffering in the backwardsness of religious institutions.

[–] id-entity 11 years ago

Thanks. Is it just or mainly religious institutions that are depicted as backward or secular ones too?

[–] pjpoconnell 11 years ago

Secular ones, too. Note the indifference of some of the bureaucrats and medical staff, presumably leftovers of the communist regime. The film is not anti-religious. It shows good and bad in both religion and secularism and challenges the viewer to make up his/her own mind.

[–] Errington_92 8 years ago

It shows good and bad in both religion and secularism and challenges the viewer to make up his/her own mind.

I would say it was more aimed at religion, attempting to force their dogmatic beliefs onto the protagonists.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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