Before I write my review i have to admit I was already a fan of Oikonomidis, because I believe his films,through deliberate exaggeration,touch on a very real side of Greek life for many families.
However, in this film he truly shows how much he has matured as a director without losing his unconventional character. To begin with, the dialogues no longer have the excessive repetitions found in his previous films. As a result, they feel so realistic that the viewer practically steps into the protagonist's shoes and starts to believe they are the ones owing money!
In terms of screenplay, this is perhaps his best and most complete work. This is hinted at from the very first scene with the turtle, which essentially alludes to a person "drowning" in debt and desperately trying to catch a breath.
Finally, the film delivers one of the most powerful endings I've seen,almost like a modern ancient tragedy. Possibly the best Greek film I've watched since Mourikis' The King. It's a film the average Greek will watch in one breath, but I also highly recommend it to all my foreign friends because it perfectly represents both Greek behavior and everything that goes wrong in terms of mentality in my country.
