A fighter accidentally injures another fighter and is blackballed. Left with no place to fight he returns home and finds life complicated.
This is a dark sad drama that is going to leave you broken at the end. No one and nothing is spared (that is a spoiler/warning). There is a reason why we never see sunshine and that is because there is no daylight for anyone in the film. A coproduction between Lithuania and Taiwan the film has the bleakness that you can only find in Eastern European films. It's so dark I had to try it a second time because the first attempt at watching it depressed me so.
This is cinema as gut punch. It's a film that grabs you by the eyes in the open moments and puts you in a place that stays with you for days. Its a place you will be glad that you are only visiting. This is a film that is set among the people who don't realize how deep in hell they are.
That, my friends is a rave.
This is a brilliant one-of-a-kind film, and I want to never see it again. I can't say much more because I need to get out of the film's headspace.
I have no idea what director Jurgis Matulevičius has done before but I want to see everything.
A must see.
