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This is the second Hungarian movie I’ve seen so far. It’s a mixture of many things (humour, thriller, horror, drama) and it’s very symbolic. Hubby and I watched it yesterday. We laughed at some scenes and we also felt some terror about some scenes and we were left wondering who the perpetrator was. It also shows a kind of job I’ve never seen before on TV: a group of ticket control officers in the underground metro station. VERY interesting!!!

However, at the end of the movie I was left with many questions. I’d love to have some things explained to me, but I guess the point of the movie is for you to think about it yourself. I’ll give this movie a 6.6 stars out of 10 as I’m not really a fan of this type of symbolic movie. This 2003 movie is rated R for language, some violence and brief sexuality.

The Story:

There are many groups of ticket control officers in the underground metro station. Other than the fact that they have to check that each passenger has tickets or passes, they also have to watch out for weird incidents as there have been many jumpers lately. Jumpers = people who jump from the platform and kill themselves. It is clear from the start that there is such a tight competition between each group of ticket control officers.

One group consists of 5 people with the leader named Bulcsú (Sándor Csányi). The weird thing about Bulcsú is that he has been sleeping on the platform after the last train is gone, so he’s like a homeless person. His group members are the Muki (Csaba Pindroch), Tibi (Zsolt Nagy), Lecsó (Sándor Badár), and Professor (Zoltán Mucsi). Every day they have to handle passengers without tickets who are sometimes aggressive and each of them has an interesting personality.

Other than that, after a while it’s found out that the jumpers aren’t people who commit suicide. There is somebody who pushes them from the platform to their deaths. Who is this killer? Why is he doing whatever he’s doing?

Bulcsú once sees this hooded perpetrator pushing an annoying passenger to his death. Trouble comes after this event as Bulcsú is thought as the killer by his boss. He’s seen to have been chasing the annoying passenger and then the next thing shown on the recorded video is the flying passenger going to his death. Is Bulcsú the killer or is there somebody else who does it? Meanwhile, Bulcsú also manages to fall in love with the daughter of a metro driver who dresses in a bear suit since it’s her job.

What will be revealed in the end? Will Bulcsú and the girl get together?

Note:

It seems to me that it’s up to you what this movie means and what the symbols are, so don’t worry even if you feel that it’s about something whereas somebody else thinks it’s about something else.