DALLAS AMONG US
“A genteel gypsy”
via Robert-Adrian Pejo
Do you recognize it?
A fat cat?
Love my daughter, you?
Listen--for 5 cigarettes I’ll kneel down
about you for ages, JR.
Should I have waited?
A piano soloist during communist times--
many times I cursed you.
Of me begging for money:
no choice
going nuts.
Us? U.S.?
Should I have waited?
Written during my first viewing of this 2005 fictional feature largely set
in a Romany camp on the fringes of a central European city, right next to
the dump. Returning to the camp after he had escaped “the life”, a teacher
from the big city attends to his father’s funeral and stirs up long-
standing problems and relationships. The camp’s bar/general store, set up
in an old bus, screens episodes of the tv show “Dallas” almost
continuously, & the local mob boss answers to the initials “JR”. I have to
admit to a fascination with the sociology of “dated taste”, and this
particular focus struck me as cinematically unique.
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