Waiter
2006 ‘Ober’ Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
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Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer.
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There is nothing strange or bizarre enough in the world of my favourite Dutch director, Alex van Warmerdam. And here he gives us perhaps his most surrealistic film yet.
What happens when a character in the film you're watching decides he's had enough and confronts the screenwriter of said film with this, demanding a better life. On a superficial level, this kind of meta awareness is not that original, but in the hands of van Warmerdam it turns into a hyper-realistic tragedy with wry humour and absurd observations about the pettiness of life and desire.
Because we are shown that the characters we are watching aren't real and never will be, they are allowed to be larger than life and…
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vooral lachwekkend. Scene met hét toetsenbord
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A proposta é muito interessante. Trabalhos com metalinguagem quase sempre resultam numa concepção boa, e van Warmerdam faz valer a pena. O problema é que o desenvolvimento da história fica moroso e muitas vezes desinteressante - vide toda a sequência de comemoração dos 25 anos de profissão de Edgar.
Mas não se trata de um filme ruim. Vale a pena ver.
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There is nothing strange or bizarre enough in the world of my favourite Dutch director, Alex van Warmerdam. And here he gives us perhaps his most surrealistic film yet.
What happens when a character in the film you're watching decides he's had enough and confronts the screenwriter of said film with this, demanding a better life. On a superficial level, this kind of meta awareness is not that original, but in the hands of van Warmerdam it turns into a hyper-realistic tragedy with wry humour and absurd observations about the pettiness of life and desire.
Because we are shown that the characters we are watching aren't real and never will be, they are allowed to be larger than life and…