Reviews

While everyone praises this show to be "original" I would have to challenge this. It's not. It's heavy influced from history, religious events and doctrine. While I appreciate the effort, regurgitating old ideas with nice sci-fi twist is not original at all. The paralels with the whole issues with Prometheus are easy to see.

The show tries to be philosophical, but fails at story telling in a remotely plausible way. Mother's character is flawed at it's core and her overpowered nature takes away any enjoyment of her scenes. Once you see the first episode's ship scene with here, it all goes downhill.

I'd recomment watching this if you are bored, else there are way better sci-fi shows out there, the Expanse being one of them, mopping the floor with Ridley's new tv show.

Maybe someday we will get that Alien's tv show, we all want from him and the franchise deserves. Untill thne we are left with this lackluster of a sci-fi, that's not fun and entertaining or deep on any levels!

Expected the movie to be another Romanian try of a black comedy, but boy was I wrong. The movie is structured in two parts, divided by a tragic event, that is not shown but hinted and referenced.

The first part is more of an intro, presenting all the characters that live under the same apartment building. And it has quite a few characters, families, but out of them the two kids can be considered main characters.

But what about the animals? Yes, that's what I was asking myself from the poster, how do they come into play? A short answer is that they are the "trigger" for the main plot and sub stories of the movie and characters form relationships based and with them.

The second part it's a bit more drama and narrative orientated as opposed to the first part. While the part, had a few jokes and funny situations in the second one "something" has changed. On top of that the movie shifts and introduces a "dream" sub story that is followed up until the ending and mingled with the main plot.

Out of the multiple characters, you will care more for the ones in the second part, considering that very few sub stories get explained or developed. This leaves the main plot a bit unknown, not properly defined, making the whole thing to be a relationship movie.

Acting was good, but only a few characters have a chance to shine, while the rest are there to add depth. I do think they could have removed some, but it's no way bad.

Overall it's a good movie, not as much drama orientated as other Romanian flicks but also no a black comedy. It stands on a fine line in between, helped by it's structure and acting.