JustApt Case for a Rookie Hangman is a wondrous journey of Lemuel Gulliver to the lands of absurd. It's a brilliant adaptation of Jonathan Swift's classic in the form of postmodern comedy. "Everyone knows how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas by his contrivance, the most ignorant person at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study. He then led me to the frame, about the sides whereof all his pupils stood in ranks. It was twenty foot square, placed in the middle of the room. The superficies was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others. They were all linked together by slender wires. These bits of wood were covered on every square with papers pasted on them; and on these papers were written all the words of their language in their several moods, tenses, and declensions, but without any order. The professor then desired me to observe, for he was going to set his engine at work." Rejoice, Jonathan Swift was an inventor of a computer and the first programmer! The film is wittily hilarious.

vlanda As I wrote in Postava's review. Juracek decided to make more profound statement with this work,not a simple satire. The basic idea is that the time in the communist countries is going backwards. Peope are not granted the most basic rights e.g. the freedom of speech (yes, I know Juracek was allowed to make this film however it was rarely screened and after the year 1970,it was prohibited), because nobody owns anything (communism)people don't care about country and it is simply rotting away. Juracek studied all the civilizations in history who started to decline (Azteks).This was his main idea. (abodened factories, the commercial billboards are displayed as art in museums-Shell). And again as in Postava, nobody is responsible for anything. The people do not want to take responsibility, they rather want to be ruled by a monarch up in the sky.He linked this with a personal experience of an individual. There is a dream house were you see your childhood, your first love, you are trapped perhaps in your subconsciousness. Many critics say that the film doesn't work all the time. It might be true (not for me though), however, it needs to be said, that Juracek was sick of the standard screenplay with the same dramatic patterns (he wrote many scripts just for money). So the things that some people consider to be flaws, are done on purpose. Everything is written to be open, the characters appear and disappear throughout the film, their episodes are very often not closed. It is his intention.

Jan Lipsansky This movie is about our childhood dreams. Lemuel Gulliver is seeking his love (who he lost in teenage years) in strange land full of strange people. But the story isn´t so main for this movie but atmosphere and feelings. You find yourself dreaming about your childhood dreams, strange adult world around you and maybe you find there are still interesting places and miracles in the world around you.

Don Guan This motion picture tells us about the special trip of a very special gentleman named Pan Gulliver who was really surprised finding a rabbit Oscar on the road, wearing the checked shirt with the short trousers. Two minutes later we learn about the Balnebard's country where the people keep silent one day a week sparing the air, where there is an immortal poet living on the railway-station.This strange surreal world where black is white and white is black is headed by a king who is working now as a doorman in Monte-Carlo. Now there is only one person living in the castle - Prince Milevin - who's got nothing except excessive consumption of all the castle's wine-storage.Too many uncertain questions with too few certain answers.A great cameraman's and director's work. They perfectly created the specific space of Balnebards's terrarium.