The "medical staff" represent those who may be able to help but they are not so sure how to go about it. It happens *every single day*. I suspect medical professionals would see much they recognize in this movie. It must be like this with many people, and not just in Romania. The film has personally struck me because hospitals are pretty much the same in Hungary and so are the members of staff. 124 out of 134 found this helpful. I could totally identify myself with the characters and the environment seemed so sadly familiar. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romanian: Moartea domnului Lăzărescu) is a 2005 Romanian dark comedy film by director Cristi Puiu.
Having said that. 14 out of 18 found this helpful. This is the beginning of his Dantesque odyssey deep into the. One of the best pictures of 2005. He makes calls to his "loved ones." The colourful old man with his cats in his apartment is the king to start off with. This is the man: old, alone and ill. A terrible fate. User Reviews. I've been through it with someone very dear to me, and i know what's happening in those hospitals. Each hospital suggests sending him to another one. If you start thinking of Lazarescu, of all the Lazarescus, as people who deserve your full concern and attention, you could go mad. what seems to be odd for such a minimalistic movie is that, with each viewing, you can find a lot of mundane details that fit together and form a more complex picture. Was this review helpful? then the nurse, then the doctors, then the doctors, then the doctors. I am not going to give away the ending but if you see the film, try to see the message of tired but fresh hope.
Well, the Anglo-Saxon viewers will probably remember Bringing Out the Dead with Nicholas Cage and find similarities.
What [the film] does best is take all that frustration and put it into one man's story. The title-character is far from being a hero, but that makes it easier to sympathize with him, which is essential here: we really feel like we were Lazarescus, going from hospital to hospital waiting for the help, never being treated properly, and the situation getting worse and worse as times goes by. What a show! Was this review helpful? In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
This movie is certainly not a comedy as some reviews claimed. It is rather hard for this movie theme to put 5 hours of action in only one and a half; a theme where every detail, every word, and every expression of their faces matter. 10 out of 12 found this helpful. This is one of those movies that you remember because it was different from any other. He has had ulcer surgery and apparently other serious, probably fatal ailments. The doctor's solution is a perfect Catch-22: "Drive him for a while until he's comatose, and then bring him back. I found this title on a list of outstanding foreign films. "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" is one of the first, if not the first Romanian film to receive huge international fame and actually be released in America in recent times. The steady pace of human disregard to a fellow-human's suffering brings death to the latter.. Death to our fellow-humans: "other people". 4 out of 4 found this helpful. 37 out of 49 found this helpful. The simplicity, the community's moral help, the doctor's ignorance make this movie so much different of any other one I ever saw. This is great! Not comedy, maybe drama, supra-realistic. Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu (original title) R | 2h 33min | Comedy, Drama | 22 September 2005 (Romania) Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis. I also read some of the comments and it is obvious that you guys in the West do not have the slightest clue as to what it is like in the post-communist countries despite 18-19 years of "freedom". The Death of Mr. Lazarescu ( 2005) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. In my opinion, it was also a bit too long (about 150 min.) So this movie is really deeply pessimistic. A 60-ish widower, living alone in Bucharest with his … And my own experience of old people dying in hospitals here in Belgium is of course not so awful, but somehow related to Mr. Lazarescu's experience. It's just that they are blind - blinded by their own ego, vanity, routine, fear,superficiality or prejudice.
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