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A better movie about war than the contemporary western dramas. Good acting, with the curious poor showing of Rebengiuc, from almost all in the cast. Acceptable directing, even some interesting camera shots at the beginning. The story is coherent, the characters have depth and personality. I like the fact that everybody speaks his own language, unlike in the western movies. The girl is also stunning, just to confirm that beauty was not invented in the 21st century.

Not a masterpiece, but a reasonably good movie, in the already known Eastwood style of old age and meaningfulness. It reminds me of Gran Torino. All his movies have messages, from the old generation to the younger one. And in short it would be that values like work, friendship, loyalty, courage and honesty are perennial. Not very complicated plot, nor great acting, nothing to come out in a negative way. The story is pretty simple, but believable and the ending is natural. Nothing fancy, nor exaggerated, no political correctness, just humanity and the pursuit for meaning, even at the end of a life.

They succeeded in making a dissident out of a poet that was so central to communist propaganda, that she was present in all literature manuals. A proletcultist artist, intelligent and with plenty of affairs, that was made to look just a feminist that opposed real socialism and criticized Ceausescu. She was a icon of the time and an activist for the communist cause. She had a very privileged status, thats why she was allowed to criticize the rulers. The old lady that she became shows no remorse, nor regret, she has nothing interesting to say about the intellectual and social atmosphere of the time. She portrays herself as an idealist. She did not leave the country until 1985. Her American partner is a nobody, from intellectual perspective and her life in NY was a failure, still she did not come back, probably because she could have been subjected to a lot of critics, for her support and for being a beneficiary of the communist regime. What I learned is that old age is not as we should expect an age of wisdom, nor one of introspection and doubt over what mistakes and what pathways one should have taken, nothing but a decaying body with a superficial mindset.