Monday, September 4, 2023

Child's Pose (Romania, 2013)


The wealthy, overbearing mother of a bratty son in his 30's tries to help when he hits and kills a young teenager while driving. It didn't sound like it was his fault, but he was speeding and is facing a few years in prison. She's not the most likable person in the world and the son is no picnic either. 

You have to feel for a guy facing prison and his mother trying to keep him out of the slam. I wasn't sure what to think about his mother's advice to him, to lie in his statement to police, especially when she told him that right there in front of the cops. She later meets with a witness who will change his story for a price. 

The witness soliciting a bribe is another rich guy gloating that his car was bigger and faster than her son's. The lower class family whose child was killed doesn't want anything from her. 

Romania should have stayed Communist.

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