Movies: Furia // The Rage (2002)

In a city full of “manele”, drugs and illegal car races you don’t survive unless you know how to pay. Sometimes with other’s lives. Young people today are trying to adapt to a world without consciousness, a world of money, unscrupulous businesses. A film-adrenaline with accents of black humor, irony at the society which is run by large rubble and where life is just a currency. One of the good Romanian crime movies, and one of the few movies made in Romania in the early 00s that weren’t tackling the drama of living during the Communist regime. It’s not strong, the race is definitely inspired by Fast and Furious, but with like 1/100000th budget (which shows). The parts that it does well are the connection between characters, the cuteness and charisma of Dorina Chiriac pulling the weight of the movie, especially since the character played pretty well by Dragos Bucur is not well written. We are forced somehow to root for him, but it seems that even himself has trouble positioning over one…