From 1981 to 1985, when the dictator Nikolai. During the rule of Giosegu, Romania was the country with the worst Stalinist regime at that time. The young man Mugu Carinescu ran on the streets in the middle of the night and wrote protest messages with white chalk graffiti. He was arrested and interrogated by the secret police, and eventually died mysteriously. Continuing the method of "Chasing Gypsy" based on diverse historical texts, director Hadou Jude further adapted Janina Cabneriu's play into an exceptional "documentary" film. He ritually reproduces the official accent of national archives, as well as the state machine's thought control and dehumanization by using monologues in a set theater. In addition to the ritual, seemingly unrelated light entertainment, news images and political propaganda films are interspersed, allowing the audience to travel back and forth between the boy's events, sometimes present and sometimes removed, to experience the absurdity of parallel time and space in which prosperity and high pressure coexist in the era, and to understand the media manipulation methods of authoritarian governments to downplay the attention of the incident.
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