为什么是我？

Kafka comes to post-Communist Romania in writer-director Tudor Giurgiu's third fiction feature. Why Me? is a thinly disguised dramatization of the life of Romanian state criminal prosecutor Cristian Panait, who died in shady circumstances in April 2002 after taking a stand against powerful vested interests. He was just 29.


　　A Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian co-production, Why Me? is glossy-looking and solidly crafted. It will clearly have audience appeal at home and in the neighboring region, where the Panait case still has recent historical resonance. But it feels too local in theme and too conventional in style to generate much overseas interest, lacking the originality and bite that propelled the best of the Romanian New Wave onto the world stage over the past decade.


　　Darkly brooding hunk Emilian Oprea plays Cristian Panduru, a young college lecturer and hotshot prosecutor who is being groomed by his bosses for fast-track promotion. Offered the career springboard of a complex corruption case against Bogdan Leca (Alin Florea), a fellow prosecutor who had previously been involved in pressing smuggling charges against prominent political dynasties, Panduru initially seizes the chance. But he soon has doubts about the case, suspecting he is being used as a pawn in a murky power game orchestrated by the security services and crooked government insiders.


　　Panduru is an idealist with strong moral convictions, but also a cold-hearted womanizer who cheats on his partner Dora (Andreea Vasile) with his female students. When he withdraws from the Leca case on principle, he is frozen out of his job, slapped with trumped-up criminal charges and menaced with vague threats of blackmail concerning his colorful private life. Consumed by paranoia, he suspects everybody around him of being a spy or a traitor. His lone stand against injustice ends tragically.


　　A prolific director, producer and founder of the Transilvanian Film Festival, Giurgiu was also briefly in charge of Romania's state broadcaster before resigning under political pressure. This was part of his motive for dramatizing the Panait case, seeing in it a more tragic echo of his own, and a broader allegory for post-Communist Romania in general.


　　As a film-maker, Giurgiu does a competent job, though Why Me? feels more like an upscale TV drama than a fully realized movie: indeed, HBO Romania is listed as a co-production partner. Clunky exposition abounds, with too many table-thumping showdowns in smoke-choked, tobacco-stained rooms.


　　Panait's death was officially recorded as suicide due to schizophrenia, and Giurgiu takes the bold step of filming at the exact location where he died. Conspiracy theories still persist that he was killed by dark forces. In any case, soon afterwards, Romania finally disbanded its secret police and jailed dozens of politicians for corruption. Why Me? is not the full story, but a worthy attempt to tell part of it.

我知道这对罗马尼亚来讲是一部很重要的电影，但表达的沉郁叫人昏睡，腐败不堪的国家确实是这样的，尤其是拍电影本身也是一种政治行为时，可能更叫人感到沮丧。但电影人或者文艺人要做的不就是要用自己的发现，来给普通人以新的感受，或许是一种视角，或许是一种叙事，或许是一个大胆的假设。总之，既然不是录像资料，那么还是要对讲故事这门手艺更精进。这部影片显然没能做的很好。

冗长，琐碎，整体节奏缺乏张力，导演太过于迷恋塑造男主，他的事业与私生活形成单调的双线，却深度不足，最后的结局只看到国家体制毁掉一个前程似锦、俊郎英俊、性能力很棒的凤凰男，而隐藏在背后的丑陋和阴谋却只是用台词几嘴带过，比之同样是个人对抗体制的纪录片《制造杀人犯》，本片确实技不如人。

虽是真实事件，其实是导演自己眼里的那个版本，它好像什么都讲了，背后又隐藏了很多复杂的利害关系，但人们很清楚这会是一个什么样的故事，这位检察官经历了什么。片子要讲的其实还是后社会主义时期罗马尼亚的政治迫害和贪污腐败问题，之前集权政府遗留下的鬼影无处不在，这也是一切的病根。★★★★

齐奥塞斯库死去之后，还会有其他的人，那双看不见的手是很难凭一己之力去掰的。一连串的讽刺让这个天真热血的年轻人走上了绝路，杀人的人为死者念悼词也是有太多先例。我们可以看到后苏式社会主义时代的东欧，那些过去隐秘的人去了哪里，又在做着什么，严重的后遗症如同今日的红朝，绵软而僵硬

7-7.5/10 三星半 为了真相的歇斯底里。政治与新闻里没有绝对的对错，然而法律不允许这样。最后「哔——」得太突然了…… 是剧情和节奏上的突然，不是直接感受，因为当他在天台上「哔——」的时候就有预感了…… 整部片子嘴炮下来没太觉得累或者烦躁，这点做得不错。

“当你要养家糊口的时候，你根本没工夫瞎胡闹，或者在那里自作聪明……像你这样的年轻人太多了……当你决定了立场的时候，你还真以为你可以力挽狂澜？你什么也改变不了”……我竟是如此认同，看来我已经和这个世界同流合污了

男主远景来看真的有神似五十度灰男主，床戏尺度更大，当然这都不是重点，贪污腐败的片子不好拍，然而拍的这么无趣也是蛮难得，和危楼根本没法比。絮絮叨叨的两小时蛮难熬，好在罗马尼亚的风景蛮好的，最后自杀的背景很美

有危楼愚夫珠玉在前，这部影片就显得相对平庸了。人物塑造不够立体，许多配角都太扁太平，不能和主角形成互动，显得主角的理想主义有些苍白。不过摄影很不错，光线的运用和一些场景的拍摄手法都为影片增加了艺术性。

绝望压抑阴暗的氛围，现实主义手法，罗马尼亚这样腐败的例子可能也只是这个国家的冰山一角，然而放眼望去，不公正不正义的处处有。很大胆的拍摄手法，是一种挑战，也是一种勇气，值得敬畏。

政治惊险片的模式。有着罗马尼亚电影的犀利，但似乎拍得过于零碎了一些。政治的腐败与黑暗，在那个极权社会倒塌十数年之后，仍像幽灵一样盘桓于政治社会之中，其影响与危害仍难以除根。

芝加哥电影节，主办方的朋友给了我两张票，晚上没事8点看看就这个片不用换rush票就进去看了，IMDB评分还挺高7.9，看完觉得确实不错，有点斯诺登的感觉… 扣一星给结尾吧

在独裁/极权的国家，大多数民众都是生活在惶恐中，说不定哪一天就突然失踪，突然蒙冤，突然没命。罗马尼亚、保加利亚和匈牙利都曾经是一样的国家。想起那些年，自杀了一堆人。