Lepší je být bohatý a zdravý než chudý a nemocný

In this film, it is quite visible that the removal of censorship and rules that limited filmmakers' possibilities of their creation in totalitarian Czechoslovakia does not automatically mean improvement in the quality of new works. Jakubisko's previous film Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself works significantly better and more cohesively. What I wrote at the beginning is an old familiar truth anyway. When Emperor Josef II in the Austrian empire first lifted censorship, he joyfully awaited an explosion of intellectual masterpieces, and instead, he witnessed the emergence of a lot of garbage, primitive pamphlets, and cheap contemporary erotica from somewhere. Jakubisko's 90s in general do not reach the level of previous decades, and this film is evidence that his later work Post Coitum is not just a temporary confusion of the senses. The director attempts to capture the confusing period of the early 90s when society had to cope with the fall of old certainties and the pitfalls of acquired freedoms. There is a lot of everything, and even more, but it is woven into a strange confusing shape with bizarre mental processes of its heroines. Sometimes it looks like Jakubisko was on speed. Jakubisko obviously deals with the explosion of Slovak nationalism and the general disillusionment of intellectuals in the chaos of political and social life at that time. But what on earth did they expect...? Dagmar Veškrnová is quite uncertain in her role, and overall, I get the feeling that with this film, Jakubisko's hesitation began, which he never got rid of. If you want to watch two women who decided to rebel against the situation and go their own way despite the law and social conventions, I recommend Thelma & Louise. Overall impression: 40%. (14.05.2013)

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