Reviews

TV series about medicine, interns and/or paramedics are common on Tv nowadays. Films about it are not exactly like that. This uncommon experimentation is made on this production, with an ambiguous, sadistic, tragicomic script, centering on a neurosurgeon doctor's routine. It's been quite a long time since I've seen this film on HBO, and I don't regret of that. It's nice watching some fresh, unpredictable stuff once in a while. The plot is cleverly INtense, NOT tense and filled with medical clichés and jargons, as it can be presumed at first, though. We can see here a more honest, fluid point of view about the banalization of human life within such work environments, far away of being explored by north-american productions about delicate themes such as health issues. So to say: a more human -- limitated as it is implicited -- role. I assure that moralistic, pretensiosly romanced approachs so widely used by Warner Bros. and its cheesy, predictable TV series, for instance, are happily avoided by a less hipocrite european insight of humor. Using my comparison above, that I've used only for an easier analogy, Hospital! is like a Scrubs without immature interns and naive, dissociated life lessons, plus an ER without semigod doctors and tasteless script.

This is one of those Eastern productions which teach, like noone in West, perseverance, altruism, goodwill lessons. As long as there's no plot of the cartoon in this page, I'll make a brief introduction of it: It's a story about an orphan girl that, due to a reward offered by the country's princess, is forced by his stepmother to look, all by herself, a flower that blossoms only, of course, in spring, the galantus. If I tell more, I'd spoil the whole role. This motion picture is a rare combination of an old anime-style cartoon telling a russian tale (Nothing with absurdly big eyes, don't worry about that). Besides story development makes me jump to this conclusion, there's also the way characters were developed. Only the main character seems to have a name; the others are like generalized brands of people from a time; these don't even get a name. At the beginning of the picture, an image of, apparently, the tale's writer is shown, but I can't be sure of that as long as I don't speak russian. Overall, at a first glance, it's a production with appeal for kids only, but a more accurate look could make you change your mind.