This is one of the most fascinating and amazing experiences I ever watched during the year and it's incredible that it isn't even
discussed today since it deals with the exact same issues we are facing on the internet and its contents around the world when it comes to
trust the facts or discover they're a hoax. "Nicolae e Elena" was made in 1991, with a great techincal aspects that makes viewers to debate
if a real known fact was actually truth or not.
On 1989 Christmas morning, the world got to witness the execution of former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceascescu and his wife Elena,
ending with the Communist regime in the country, an "event" that broadcast on TV. But did we honestly saw that?
Director Richard Vetterli challenges the viewers in knowing if Ceasescu's deaths were real or not, and he and his creative team of
actors, editors, cinematography and cameraman are able to distort facts in such a powerful and believable manner that for a moment you could
actually think he got an exclusive footage, two years after the fact, and shook the whole world. And in a time fake news is the most common
think, with fact-checkers coming from all sources (it used to be a just journalism thing), this is the kind of video that people and history
fans will be looking over and discussing for days on end.
This went completely unnoticed back in 1991, except for an award it received, but internet is getting to know it little better these
days, and Mr. Vetterli techniques and editing skills are impecable while mixing the fact with fiction - but you miss a keen-eye for detail to
tell each thing apart.
In a way it's a little dangerous movie because it can easily distort what we know as facts and become a wildfire of controversy with
people trusting its full content. Yet I'd love it exactly because of that, because we play with our minds a little and keep imagining on
alternative stories (that goes nowhere, really), and I could keep on guessing/spotting what's real and what's fabricated. The movie allows
such good interaction and I was blown by its quality. 9/10.