Film review by Hungarian students

Critique "Just the Wind"

The film is based on an actual incidence in Hungary. The plot however is fiction. It’s about a day in the life of a Hungarian Romany family. They live under very difficult circumstances. The mother is a cleaning woman in a school and a public worker. Her husband has emigrated to Canada and he promised his family that they could join him later, but they don’t have money. They have two children, Rio and Anna, and the grandfather also lives with them. Because of their ethnical background, they have to face humiliation and discrimination every day.   

For some time, in their neighborhood, Roma families were killed by a group of racists. At night they hear noises, and the mother tells them not to worry, because it’s just the wind. But actually it’s the murderers who come into the house and start shooting the family. Everybody dies, just Rio escapes through the bedroom window.

The solution could have been that the mother gets further education, and then maybe they could have broken out of their bad social situation. The film introduces a deep social problem, that is based on prejudice and radical opinions. These opinions, in this case racism, usually occur when people feel that their future is uncertain, and they let their frustration out on innocent people.

This film is very shattering and divisive.