0:11:57
lazarescu on phone:
- is this the muscalu residence? virgil?
... can i speak with eva? please?
... what's all this talk about the drinking?
1:35:00 **
lazarescu and ambulance nurse, before going up the elevator to get his ct scans:
- she come with virgil?
- say that again.
- she come with virgil?
- beats me. who's virgil?
- virgil muscalu.
- i don't know mr. lazarescu. i don't understand what you're saying.
- eva second husband.
(** note this middle-of-the-movie mention of Virgil is on a _keyframe_. one hour, thirty five minutes, on the dot.)
2:23:52
lazarescu has been prepped for surgery, nurse opens door to call for the surgeon:
- i'm ready. virgil. come get him and take him to anghel!
... so here's my theory: virgil, though we never get to meet him, is framed as a pivotal character who, as we gather from the phone conversation early on, is well aware of our tragic character's drinking (via gossip from his daughters Bianca and Eva)... upon discovering that the old man's disregard of his own health has landed him squarely in his hospital, wants nothing to do with him whatsover... outside the operating room (off-screen) the nurse is told by virgil (the doctor who will assist anghel in the procedure, perhaps) that it's not even worth the effort, he's too far gone, and the next thing we see before fade to black is the same nurse who just shaved his head now loosening her latex gloves. finito, finished.
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psdhart
15 years ago
It could be that or as someone said in another post:
"No one seems to have caught the significance of the last line of the film. Lazarescu, whose first name is Dante, is told that Virgil (a nurse or porter?) will take him to a surgeon whose name is a cognate of Angel. In Dante's Divine Comedy, his guide through Hell and Purgatory is the Roman poet Virgil (a suitable guide because though a pagan one of his poems was read as predicting the birth of Christ): as the film ends he is being ushered to the angels. Whether they accept him or not is another matter.
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jrhpax
14 years ago
Of course, Mr. Lazarescu has BEEN through hell all evening, and the nurse has been his angel.
I liked the movie. I think to advertise it as a comedy was a mistake. Plus, it was way overlong. But it will stick with me.
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