Film Name: Dealer
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
The main protagonist is a drug dealer. What's remarkable about this film is that the usual elements that you would expect are missing. We have the following basic elements in the film - the dealer, the substance he peddles and the consumer. Cold, stark, minimal and desolate, just as the landscape and the general mood of the film.
It's as if we're seeing the outcome of an experiment - almost surgical. The emotive aspect is repressed, almost ruthlessly. The result is an intense build-up, almost claustrophobic that sears through the barren landscape of the film.
Repeated, almost monotonous sounds punctuate and add to this build-up.
The viewer is forced to make sense, cerebrally and/or otherwise, to counter the immense void and the slow, but sure and steady, destruction that he witnesses on-screen.
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