Glad you watched it. The film (as I see it) is an allegory for communist Hungary and post communist Hungary, and how people were desperate for change and progression but didn't know exactly what they wanted to change to. The film is called Werckmeister Harmonies - so immediately the viewer reads into why it is called that- and the answer is because the old man in the film has a lifelong ambition to change the musical scales to make their harmonies more natural. That is the key to the film (as I see it) - this man is saying that music (i.e. - life / socio-political landscape in communist Hungary) isn't natural enough and needs to change. It's too rigid, authoritarian and militant.
The long takes are either something you appreciate or don't I guess. Personally I love them as they don't conform to modern film-making and editing, and make you ask why the director is doing it (Bela Tarr doesn't do anything without reason).
The people in the hospital are political dissidents so they are attacked by the rioters who are desperate for change. Ultimately, the lead character himself becomes institutionalised, and the old man gives up on his idea of changing music (perhaps an idea that is supposed to represent socialism of some kind). The ending represents a more stable Hungary that has been through the bad times politically (witnessed a circus come and go) and although it's not perfect, there is a sort of harmony amongst its people.
The long takes are either something you appreciate or don't I guess. Personally I love them as they don't conform to modern film-making and editing, and make you ask why the director is doing it (Bela Tarr doesn't do anything without reason).
The people in the hospital are political dissidents so they are attacked by the rioters who are desperate for change. Ultimately, the lead character himself becomes institutionalised, and the old man gives up on his idea of changing music (perhaps an idea that is supposed to represent socialism of some kind). The ending represents a more stable Hungary that has been through the bad times politically (witnessed a circus come and go) and although it's not perfect, there is a sort of harmony amongst its people.
I heard what the old man was saying about the musical scales and their harmonies, and I got that it linked to what was happening with the people, but I've never really been good with political and/or historical movies, so I think that's where it lost me.
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