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Reviews
Moartea domnului Lazarescu (2005)
Be prepared for a long ride to the hospital
My partner rented this through Netflix (we miss so many small films that race through town). I didn't know what to expect, but he _thought_ that it was going to be a comedy. It is not. There are no extras to help you figure out anything: a true 'no frills' DVD. No music soundtrack during the film, no English in the credits in case you want to knowwhat the one song at the beginning and the one song at the end were. In any case, I heard that the director was inspired by ER and wanted to make a Romanian version. That's a very good comparison--it's like a two & half hour ER episode with the little side stories and everything. Intensely grim, though. Naturalistic almost to the point of pain, as though you truly were just watching Life unfold...or rather, Death. Don't know how the director got those performances out of his actors. They are completely unconscious of the camera. It's unnerving, if you can last the whole length of the film.
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
Not Dead Yet!
Folks, you have _got_ to see this to believe how big a battle we're up against with the Automobile Industry. As a former lessee of both the GenI and the GenII EV1 and present owner of a RAV4EV (no longer available), I can tell you from personal experience that I have _never_ talked to a driver who didn't want an EV if they were available. I give rides to people (was especially fun in the two-seater EV1 which was like being in something out of Star Trek), and they are amazed. This smart film lays it all out...the shame, the frustration, the skullduggery...and if you do a little research on your own, you'll be convinced. If we're going to continue to have cars (not to the exclusion of mass transit, of course) we've got to go Alternative Energy! Plug-in Hybrids, Biodiesel, non-corn based Ethanol, solar-powered Electric. Tell your friends!