The Prefab People Page #2

Synopsis: A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Béla Tarr
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IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
1982
102 min
85 Views


If you once understood...

what five thousand times?

This is the first time

I told you this.

Even if it's five thousand

would you understand?

You don't want to understand

you leave here every day,

so you don't understand.

Stop it...

Stop it.

- Easy now.

- What's the matter?

Is it that I'm not like this,

happy and all?

- You're going too much.

- What am I doing?

- Going on too much. About it.

- About what?

I got it from the first word.

- You're drinking too much.

- Hold him for a second.

Let me spread one for him.

Now, here.

I'm getting a beer.

There, there, it's coming.

- Sausage?

- What's this?

Did I put it there?

- Now what're you looking for?

- The opener.

Go ahead and eat.

Put it there, Gbor.

Want some?

- What's the time?

- Quarter to.

- If I knew this was the end...

- Right, hang on...

I'll be right there on time.

Did you wrap one up?

Wait a tic.

Come on, pass.

This way!

Who's in the middle?

Look out.

That's it.

- Didn't touch it!

- Didn't touch it!

It did... you're in!

That's the way!

That was all very sporting...

Here I am.

Watch it, this way.

Get it away.

Who's in the middle now?

Men... men... live in

in a kind of

society.

Primitive men had

a primitive society.

than came serfdom,

feudalism,

which was the time of lords

and serfs. Are you listening?

Are you sleepy or what?

Then came early capitalism

with factories...

industrialists,

investors,

workers.

Imperialism is the most

developed form of capitalism,

then came socialism.

What we're living in

is socialism.

And more developed than this

will be communism when...

in socialism everyone gets...

or in socialism

your needs...

No, in socialism you get

as much as what you work,

with communism, everyone

will get everything they need.

But here we're talking

about capitalism now.

Because at the present...

and it doesn't hurt

to know this,

because capitalism and

socialism exist together now,

and we are more developed,

but economically...

sometimes they are stronger.

You'll learn all this in school

but it doesn't hurt to know

a bit in advance.

I go in alone?

Are you crazy?

Just to say hello.

Give me the whatsit at least.

Let me show you

something strange.

So many chair,

hardly any customers.

I'll show you a strange

natural phenomen.

Do you think

it's a cloud or smoke?

- Well, both. - No.

Smoke goes into cloud.

It's smoke.

Just smoke?

That's why I'm leaving

the place, it's boring.

- You want to leave?

- No, not really, it's just...

When you can't tell smoke

from a cloud,

well then?

- Can you?

- Have you any beer?

There is,

have to look for it.

Why don't you have wine?

There's something in it.

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Béla Tarr

Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian film director. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes. Debuting with the film Family Nest (1979), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films changed. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his works are often cynical, and have tumultuous relationships with one another in ways critics have found to be darkly comic. Almanac of Fall (1984), his only color film, follows the inhabitants of a run-down apartment as they struggle to live together while sharing their hostilities. The drama Damnation (1988) was lauded for its languid and controlled camera movement, which Tarr would become known for internationally. Satan's Tango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued his bleak and desolate representations of reality, while incorporating apocalyptic overtones; the former sometimes appears in scholarly polls of the greatest films ever made, and the latter received wide acclaim from critics. Tarr would later compete in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man from London, which opened to moderately positive reviews. Frequent collaborators with Tarr include novelist László Krasznahorkai, film composer Mihály Víg, cinematographer Fred Kelemen, actress Erika Bók, and Tarr's wife Ágnes Hranitzky, who is sometimes credited as a co-director of his last three works. After the release of his film The Turin Horse (2011), which made many year-end "best-of" critics' lists, Tarr announced his definitive retirement from feature-length film direction. In February 2013 he started a film school in Sarajevo, known as film.factory, leaving in 2016. He is slated to premiere two short films in a 2017 Amsterdam exhibition. more…

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