Review of Kontroll (2003) by Shivankar J — 22 Nov 2007
A film about the ticket checkers in the metro railway in Budapest, Hungary. Sounds boring? You couldn't be more mistaken.
What's starts off as a very funny look into the lives of the ticket checkers quickly starts showing shades of darkness and by the end, it turns out to be a very dark film with an agonising ending. Agonising because it seems as if the director leaves so many parts of the plot unfinished. I was annoyed at the end because the movie seemed to be going so well, and then the director chose to have such an amazingly ambiguous ending. But I soon realised that the director was simply too talented to simply leave a movie unfinished. What happens to the hooded figure, why does the lady wear a bear costume and was most of this just Bulcsu's hallucination? (We see him spend all his time in the metro underground. He never goes to the world above.).
Creating a fantastic world within just a metro underground with zero special effects, this film is a absolute must-see.
This review of Kontroll (2003) was written by Shivankar J on 22 Nov 2007.
Kontroll has generally received very positive reviews.
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