A science fiction film that harbors few images of the new or the possible but remarks on the failures of the old. This film begins with the destruction of a street, while four large claw like machines tear the street up which makes four dogs run away from a store window with four manikins in it. Wait this movie is about the number four and how it relates to the everything and creates a common theme that everything relates to...right? If this movie was the movie 23 then possibly, but eastern European cinema generally deals with its thriller or science fiction films in a much more mature, less contrived fashion. The movie begins with very long shots of people sitting in a bar. They continue to fabricate elaborate stories of themselves to contradict the otherwise miserable banal existence the world outside has created for them. We see the lives of three individuals(not four) deal with their pasts, in which they tried very hard to conceal. Their past like much of this movie remains an enigma. We see these individuals move in and out their bizarre universes of government conspiracies, rustic women communes and unruly meat packing plants. Personally this film contains some of the most bizarre images in any film I have viewed. The composition of the shots explores a cautionary tale of the old Soviet era world decaying around the lives of the people who have bought into a very idealistic way of living.
