#SilverScreenBlack - OscarWatch: 'Collective' (2019)

(1hr 49mins, Romania)

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📣Leviathan: A team of journalists fight to uncover why, after a Romanian nightclub burns, most of the fatalities came from the hospital care the victims received afterwards.

👍Thieves laid bare:
Exceptional movie-making by director Alexander Nanau showing exceptional heroism: journalists Cătălin Tolontan, Mirela Neag and the team at Gazeta Sporturilor; the whistleblowers who came forward; the survivors who wouldn't hide; and the new Minister of Health, Vlad Voiculescu. They all saw the breadth of the abyss beneath them and didn't baulk.

👎"Best possible care":
Every scene will break your heart even further as the scope of appalling hospital care and rampant corruption becomes apparent. There are scenes you will remember long after the film ends, for the rest of your life.

📽️Favourite scene:
The cemetery scene.
A family remembers their departed son, and there remains a moment of hope under the deluge of hopelessness.

🥇Best quote:
"In any sane country, a harmful substance is withdrawn immediately!"

🙁Best depressing quote:
"It's like we are living in seperable worlds. This country won't wake up for 30 years now. By the time you retire, it will still be the same."

😢Best quote to remind yourself:
"Tell me what it is that you see.
A world that's filled with endless possibilities?
Heroes don't look like they used to,
They look like you do."





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