grim against grim

DPA via Spiegel online

pleasant surprize to see the palme d'or coming home.
wondering still if it's not the time to shift the focus on a different angle of reality.
i don't exactly remember the last romanian movie that didn't depict social problems, poverty, repression, corruption or politics, and i refer not to the movies that go to festivals, but also to those that stay at home and never make it so big.
i really don't recall the last time i laughed, except at the 2002 production - Filantropica, which again, was about poverty and exploitation - a black comedy though.

i wonder therefore if these subjects are the only ones that pass through the director's mind when planning the next movie. is there really a need for catharsis, so strong, that no producer or director can avoid these over and over exploited topics? are these the only topics worht exporting?

it's sad to see that the past has such an influence upon the present, and even more, upon the creativity.

why would it be so difficult to make a thriller or just a comedy, or a horror excluding key words like

comunists
abortion
revolution
ceausescu
poverty
repression
corruption
bureaucracy
rroma
prostitution
beggars
handicaped
homeless
medical system

uhm, i guess it's already enough to make a bullshit bingo when watching a romanian movie. no offence to the palm d'or winner. glad to have won! sad though that only these topics can bring to life emotions.