Sep 2, 2023 – 2:47 p.m
Gabor Reis’s film Everything Explained was shown at the Venice International Film Festival, which was self-financed and supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. Hollywood Reporter Long Cash He wrote about the film in which he described Viktor Orbán as a neo-fascist prime minister.
The telling screenplay, which revolves around a dispute between a high school student and his family over a teacher’s comment during a student’s final oral exam, references many events and people in Hungary’s history and current political landscape – most of which will not be known. Except for neo-fascist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to viewers outside Central Europe”.
The review is generally positive, noting that the film’s core generational conflicts, particularly between left- and right-wing citizens, will be instantly familiar to viewers everywhere, especially in places like the United States, Brazil, Italy, or Israel. Where political polarization is strong.
Orbán is mentioned again in the article when he writes about the inspiration: according to Reisz, the making of the film was inspired by Orbán’s authoritarian regime’s occupation of the University of Theater and Film.
