Good story, Not enough for a whole film

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

After the fall of communism in Romania, civilians are encouraged to fight and protect a local TV station. One soldier leaves his group to fight with them. Like many Romanian films of late, this film has strong historical and social value to Romania. And like other Romanian films I have seen, not a lot happens. I mean that in the sense of actual events. A lot of this film is set in the back of a truck. Unfortunately, I also found this film to be the least engaging and the least accessible. 12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu were all instant classics and in among the best films of the last 10 years. I think the dark and pale cinematography, lead me to become tired and bored of the subject going on. A lot of it is interesting, but the beginning/end didn't carry the emotional impact I have come to expect from the Romanian New Wave.

I feel sorry that i haven't watched this movie till now ,this is a masterpiece , this is a quality movie a piece of art, this is the end of Communism in Romania and the start of Capitalism ? so which road is the best ? and what really happened ? Nobody knows for sure ,in this travel you ll discover that human people pays the debt for all this stupidness and not only in Romania but in every other country.Hîrtia va fi albastrã reaches the level of Taxi Driver or the Godfather or the Deerhunter .Its the movie that you wanna watch again and again.The viewer enters to the screen and takes the place of the actors this movie has a human touch like no other movie i have watched till now Full of emotions excellent casting excellent direction excellent music etc. Αlso i d like to mention the excellent plot and writing. Don't miss this film and the end is amazing best end for a movie in many many years of cinema.This movie worths an Oscar nomination for best foreign movie.I really missed this way of making films with human factors only and without effects and computers and fx things .Films made from people for the people."Simple people suffering always of the madness of bad leadership inside and outside of all the countries of the world but ...it is for their own good as the leaders of this mad world keep saying."DRKLABSThis movie trying to prove that we are still human beings and we asking for help and guidance but no one is available to help and guide us so in the end we simply die happily after got tired from thinking and suffering and messing around and around like a goldfish in the glass bowl and finally guess what? we have found true freedom. God may show mercy on every poor people suffering on this crazy world PIECE TO THE DEAD OF ALL WORLD SPENDED THEIR LIFES FOR OUR CHILDREN TO BE FREE WE LL NEVER FORGET YOU

This is a film about one of the most iconic and fateful events of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the liberation of Romania in December, 1989. It was the most brutal confrontation of that historical period, and the one that is perhaps least understood.The film opens with a scene of senseless violence, a case of confusion and wild gunfire in the dawn hours of December 23, 1989. This serves as the context and creates the mood of panic, confusion and deadly danger of this film.The film takes us inside an armored militia vehicle as it patrols the streets of Bucharest on the darkest night of revolution. The soldiers are confused, unsure of even the most basic truths about their job: Who are they protecting? What are they defending and who are they fighting? Who are they serving? What country is this? The soldiers have no idea,and they prefer not to think about it.This is the story of revolution. What seems to us such heroic activity guided by higher ideals of liberty and justice, is often unimaginable confusion and wasteful carnage.The performances are very good, the characterizations low keyed and hemmed in, just as these soldiers are hemmed in by the circumstances they find themselves in. The dialog is terse and chattering, in nervous counterpoint to the deadly serious events. But the events are at times mercilessly confusing, and this tends to decrease the impact of some of the key scenes. Just because the characters are confused doesn't mean that the film viewers should be as well! This is especially true at the television station when it is quite difficult to tell which side the soldiers there are defending.In general, the film is quite successful in that it brings the viewer into that time and place, and makes the madness come alive. I think there is room for further development of some of the characters, as there is so much irony in their predicament that is only obliquely alluded to. As for the ending, I was a bit disappointed that the filmmaker chose not to show the final scene that we are left to imagine. It seems like a choice of modesty that does not give full impact to the pathological nature of war.

Through the lens of actual historical events, the director manages to explore the humanity of each of his major characters, with their ideals, quirks and vulnerabilities. It's the story of a group of people railroaded by history, a story of how things can go terribly wrong despite everyone's efforts to do good.The director has managed to make a fast-paced movie while at the same time taking the time to develop his characters in unexpected directions. Whatever stereotypes you bring to this movie, they'll be challenged by a disarming humanity (and by the construction of the plot). And if you don't have any stereotypes to bring to the movie, it's a timeless lesson on the blind workings of history in times of social unrest.More than anything else I've seen or read on this subject, this movie made me re-live the confusing but adrenaline-laden moments of December 1989 in Bucharest.