A Boring Afternoon is a short trifle of a movie that is as long in charm as it is short on plot. The action takes place in a bar while elsewhere in town there is a big football match. The locals in the bar are waiting to hear the results of the game while passing the time talking, drinking and generally getting on each others nerves. A genial short movie with a little poignancy thrown in.
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pscamp0118 April 2019
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In a hot summer afternoon, a pub owner kept cursing to a young man who's reading a book, chain smoking and sometimes laughed like crazy; two old farts, obviously regular patrons of the tavern, talked about football games when they were young and complained about the young generation who didn't know anything and care about anything now; four old women playing pokers at a corner table while singing together with a love song.....There's a beautiful, sexy 40 something woman strolling in the street, dangling a purse, walking like a afternoon dream that could only happen in siesta, a day-dreaming figure, making the old farts lost their control of their saliva.....There's nothing that the movie maker really wanted you to see, because he didn't want to shoot a picture that really meant something, just a lazy, sleepy summer afternoon in a Czechoslovakian city, Prague, 1964. Maybe or maybe not, that's not important at all, because just after 4 years, , Russian Red Army invaded Eastern Europe in 1968 and built up an iron curtain around those countries, all the freedom that these countries usually had enjoyed and took for granted was lost. What showed in the short film titled "A boring afternoon" was a lost good memory, and that beautiful sexy woman loitering in the street at that specific afternoon just symbolized the beautiful and attractive Freedom. She walked into the field, lured the old fart who bragged his glory football days, tried very hard to catch up that sexy woman but simply faded away beyond the field ....and his companion in the pub, well, was another lost cause that also symbolized that the soul of Czechoslovakia went to heaven, another symbol of the sudden death of Democracy.....
This is indeed a very very boring film about a deadly boring summer afternoon.