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... and like real life, the slice in question is jumbled. The movie uses the premise of a (relatively short) disruption in the routine of its main characters to make the audience think through questions of morality and life's tradeoffs, as the story unfolds. I chuckle when I see other reviewers accusing the movie of being "too predictable" - that is not the case. No terrible things happen as a result of the characters' occasional bad decisions, like they would in any other garden variety horror/action movie with the same setting. More like in real life, things end up being ok and life moves on.

The director takes us up close and personal to experience the anxiety and the humanity of the three main characters. Even when their decisions are not ideal when judged from the comfort of our LazyBoys, we follow why the characters do what they do. The movie depicts two worlds, one affluent, fast, and a tad self-righteous. The other is slow, stuck in time, and poor - but clinging to survive with dignity and be self-sufficient. Normally these two worlds whirl by each other with only superficial points of contact. But because of an unplanned turn of events, people from one world are stuck with people from the other - and with each other. The superficiality of the human contact in the modern world starts to come into relief, if only for one night, and people are forced to have actual interactions and make uncomfortable decisions.

I can see how the ending can elicit strong reactions from people in need of closure. To me, it said very powerfully "... and life moves on". The past 24 hours, as uncomfortable as they were, will be no more than an interesting safari story told time and time again at cocktail parties.

The absolute delight in this movie (and I left that for desert!) was the character Kente (and of course the man who played Kente). It's unbelievable how a real life woodcutter with no formal training delivers such a strong performance. I would be the first to nominate him for best performance in a supporting role... Even for that performance alone (but of course, not only), you must see this film for yourself!

A kind of horror movie, but the horror is subtle and social, is about time passing, performative philanthrophy, poverty and alienation gap between generations and social classes, a Romanian movie. Understated and very well acted. One of the main actors is not a professional actor, he seems to just bring his personal life and story on the screen. The scene of the washing is a touching sensitive and gentle moment, of pure humanity. The director is exploring sensitive issues without judgment, as an anthropologist, Not for people who are looking for entertainment or fast speed developing stories. Recommended for people who have attention for minimal human stories, the ones almost unsaid.

The ideea sounds good but the execution is terrible.

1. The cars and some jackets have a logo on them, 'Extreme' something. I am guessing that this is some sort of 4x4 organisations.

Why haven't the people from that organisation been consulted about how offroading works? The second time they got stuck was really dumb and predictable. Just stop and at least try to move the log.

2. In many places the story is way too predictable.

3. The language in many scenes is dirty for no reason. Romanians swear a lot but not when they talk about insignificant things. When your car gets stuck, it's understandable to swear but not when you just driving around.

4. When one of the girls (not in blue jacket) went to take a piss, she went down, near the river. Why would you risk going down there when you have a whole empty road where you can piss. It looked cool I guess but still dumb.

5. When they left after the old man, everyone and their mother knew that the girl in the blue jacket will not hear them leave. Of course she would freak out and cry.

6. When they arrived at the old's man house, they wanted to show how the old man was treated which was ok but the scene where he was washed took waaay to long. Totally unnecessary.

7. The ending is probably the worst ending in movie history...ever

These are from the top of my head and thats good enough. I don't wanna think about this movie anymore.

Movie start is interesting, the setting, the landscapes, some of the actors, but there is no actual action. There is no story, no begging, no end. The more you watch, dissapointment keeps growing. Whenever there is doubt, the characters are just eating pufuleti... I have no other review to make for this movie and the comment section requires me to write another 200 somethijg characters. My advice is to stop watching it while you still can, not like I did and watch till the end in hopes of recovery or the wow/awe effect. Because of this movie, I stopped hoping for better Romanian movies and almost didn't want to watch Teambuilding which was way better than this one, and I had very low expectations.