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Most vagy soha! (2024)
Awkward on every level
The creators of this movie just don't understand the meaning of the Hungarian Revolution. The hungarians celebrate it, because 15th of March happened WITHOUT ANY BLOODSHED OR FIGHT, where the people were able to speak up and demand reforms without any problems or accidents. This movie was like confusion combined with awkwardness and cringiness, because of the bad camera angles (Petofi looked up sometimes like a psychopath or some action scenes were rushed) or the unnecessary storylines (Farkasch, the assassin's motivation or background story was completely missing and it was a bit mess or the waiter who firstly shown up as a spy, than saves the main character for whatever reason and at the end the assassin kills him when they should be on the "same" side). They changed so many things actually, that I felt not once, that they try to rewrite history for those who don't know much about this era.
What I don't like in this movie specifically is that they put Petofi on a pedestal, that "he is our fiery poet" or "he started the revolution" etc, keeping the other characters in the background, like "they were there next to Petofi" and I hated that, because they were equally part of this and in there own ways, all contributed to this event. But one of the worst part was how they butchered Júlia Szendrey, like she went up against the villain, alone, for what? It doesn't made any sense and I think it was just cheap conflict.
There were two things that I liked actually in this movie: the music was really beautiful, I loved it but it was overpowering sometimes to cause "distraction", (in my opinion to forget how awful this film was). And the next best thing was Tibor Fehér himself, who played Pál Vasvári. He was hilarious, I always laughed on his jokes and he had great timing with them.
Overall I think that this movie could have been so much better if they would show the revolution from a normal, average person's perspective what it meant for him/her 15th of March (there are lots of diaries or letters from this era they could have figure out something, if they wanted to). This movie felt like a lazy trying to "spice up" something that wasn't needed to be and at the same time skipping lots of, historically accurate information, that would have been better, if they would have been there (like when the revolution happened, at the same time, in Bratislava, Kossuth and Széchenyi fought for the hungarian reforms in the parliament when they heard, what happened in Buda-Pest or that they actually won, when in April the first responsible government was created, even it was a short victory). In my opinion this movie humiliated and dishonored those people's memory and work, who were there and fought for a better Hungary.