movie a day #312 - kontroll

[jenna2891]

this movie is really cool. it definitely has allegorical undertones to it, as well. don't let the fact that it's subtitled deter you, it's worth a look.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The setting of Kontroll is the Budapest subway system, one of the largest and oldest in the world, and a place that becomes an omniscient character in an ambitious film that jumbles dark comedy, slick action, and horror-movie conventions. The other main character is Bulcsú (Sándor Csányi), part of a team of disheveled ticket inspectors--controllers--who roam the grimy, fluorescent-lit city-under-the-city in a soul-destroying ritual. The job has become such a part of Bulcsú that he never leaves the underground. He has taken to sleeping on empty platforms and getting progressively more unkempt as he accumulates more bruises, bloody noses, and bitterness from his scraps with a variety of unseemly creatures of the night (and day). Among the post-punk, post-communist habitués of this subterranean metropolis are a cute girl in a teddy-bear suit, a rival gang of ticket inspectors who like to play a deadly game of chicken with express trains, and a hooded specter who may or may not be pushing people under subway wheels at crowded stops. First-time director Nimród Antal keenly juggles black comedy, character types, and genre styles, making the most of the weird angles and inherent dark creepiness of his chosen backdrop. Kontroll keeps pace as a hip, flashy, fast-moving set piece by any international measure. --Ted Fry

 

[Bada0Bing]

I just watched it. I think this was the first Hungarian film I’ve ever seen. The atmosphere reminded me a bit of Pi. It has a gritty edgy feel to it. I’d say that if you liked Fight Club (not that I’m comparing the two), you’d like this one.

 

[jenna2891]

I just watched it. I think this was the first Hungarian film I’ve ever seen. The atmosphere reminded me a bit of Pi. It has a gritty edgy feel to it. I’d say that if you liked Fight Club (not that I’m comparing the two), you’d like this one.

i really liked this movie, but even more so after the fact. i might have to watch it again...

 

[schutd]

I loved the first half, then the efiin DVD pooped the bed and I never reordered it from Netflix. Thanks for the memory. Imma go git it now...