This film will tear your heart out. You will laugh at times and at the same time gasp in horror. Not at the mummies that jump out from under a toilet lid with a knife in their teeth, but at the tipping of the scales that measure the humanity of the main character, the run-down alcoholic.
//------------SPOILERS-----------------// The story is almost in Bulgakov`s style. The half-mad from drinking man is encountered by a talking dog. The dog takes interest in him and tries to get him to stop drinking. To watch it is very funny and at the same time you keep thinking - my God, how low can a man get himself in this depth ? And why ?! It can be attributed not only to drinking. In it`s place could be drug abuse, gambling or just immorality and egoism as a sickness. In an agony of wanting to get a drink the man is calling for the dog exterminators who drag the dog away. This is like falling of an ax, the steel one over the dog`s head and one of the other kind over the head of the man. The very last moment of the film shows the dog walking back into the room. You are left wandering is it really happening. If not for this last moment, the film would be so sharply heartbreaking that it would be almost impossible to watch.
//------------SPOILERS-----------------// The story is almost in Bulgakov`s style. The half-mad from drinking man is encountered by a talking dog. The dog takes interest in him and tries to get him to stop drinking. To watch it is very funny and at the same time you keep thinking - my God, how low can a man get himself in this depth ? And why ?! It can be attributed not only to drinking. In it`s place could be drug abuse, gambling or just immorality and egoism as a sickness. In an agony of wanting to get a drink the man is calling for the dog exterminators who drag the dog away. This is like falling of an ax, the steel one over the dog`s head and one of the other kind over the head of the man. The very last moment of the film shows the dog walking back into the room. You are left wandering is it really happening. If not for this last moment, the film would be so sharply heartbreaking that it would be almost impossible to watch.