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There are many inaccuracies in the representation of Romania, Cluj city. The majority of the Romanian population does not live in estates/gheto type housing like the ones in the series. The actors speak with a strong Bucharest accent and don't look like the majority people living in Cluj.

It is, however, important that human trafficking is addressed in the film because it is a big issue that Western European countries exploit.

Women and children from poor countries in particular are sold either for their organs or into the sex industries. Unfortunately, there's no political willingness to stop this as it serves people in power.

Why..oh why in 2021 the husband is played by a guy who's 49, almost 50 and the wife is played by a woman who's 31, almost 32? Why can't it be the other way around? at least once, just once? Marvel, what a missed opportunity to some good for us all, not just for women...

It is not a bad movie. It is much worse than that.

I so wished this film was better. I had very high hopes. I thought 'this is exactly what we need during a pandemic, during political chaos even in established democracies, when we report covid deaths every day etc.' We need something to inspire us, to give us hope, to move us, to re-connect us with what we are as humans. This film - I think - tries to do that. Tries to give an inspirational message that you can recover your soul, you can live and be content even when you are in the depths of desperation.

Very sadly - and it pains me to say this because it broke my heart to hear Ayoade's and Graham Norton's voices in this film (and they are much beloved by pretty much everyone) - very sadly, the film is so lazy, so average, so un-ambitious, so predictable, so cliche that it makes me wonder: can't we make good things anymore? can't people make good movies anymore? Can't we just surprise with goodness and something truly extraordinary?