European horror at the state of the Romanian health care system is what fuels this film. Mr Lazarescu, an aging alcoholic, calls an ambulance after getting a sharp pain in his guts, and gets shuffled from hospital to hospital as doctors refuse to treat him first due to his alcoholism, then finally because he will obviously not survive. All of this occurs in more or less real-time, making for a slow crawl of a movie.
To an American audience, the film rapidly becomes tedious, inured as we are to horror stories of the health care system in the States where the wrong limb is amputted, flesh-eating strep is contracted, and so forth. Hey, if the doctor refuses to treat you, that means he can't mess anything up, right?
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Moartea domnului Lazarescu (IMDB)
Wince : [*____]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [**___]
Beerequisite : [***__]
Pornability : [_____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [***__]
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