R.M.N.

>*"It's a matter of hygiene."* Depressing, provocative and frustrating. ***R.M.N.*** (meaning M.R.I. in english) is a story about childhood trauma, masculinity crisis, intolerance, xenophobia, racism, and has a lot of multi-ethnic dynamics/tensions. At times it does feel like it's juggling with too many themes. It took me half the runtime to get into it, it's a very slow start with no hook. The performances are all good, filmed nicely, overlong, love the snowy setting and the little village location. The town hall debate scene was the best moment in the movie, pretty intense and impressive sinse it was done in one long take (±20 minutes). The scene right after the debate made me shed a tear, nicely done. Overall this had it's moments but the themes and story don't really come together as it should in the end and it feels messy and unsatisfying on so many levels.

Like bread dough that refuses to rise, it just kind of sits there and I don't know what to make of it. This is a movie whose whole purpose is to prove racism exists, but I already knew that so... I guess it was wasted on me? To present a well-known problem yet not offer any solutions or give the audience any autonomy when confronting the issue.is a form of cinematic fascism. (Although, please normalize putting subtitles for different languages in different colors. R.M.N. did it with Romanian in white, Hungarian in yellow and all others in pink. The Handmaiden did the same thing to differentiate between Japanese and Korean subtitles and I think this practice should be generalized.)