At the end of the movie ‚Men of Deeds’, one starts to ponder of one has grasped all the symbols and their meanings. One thing is for sure, the movie starts and ends with a hen in close-up which means a lot of things, but the most important of them all is the innocence and courage to fight for it.
When, at the end, Ilie, played wonderfully by Iulian Postelnicu, enters into the water, I remembered the scene in the movie where he tells a story to a child about the dead people.
The disquietude that Ilie feels is beautifully presented as he finds out that the things and people from the village he has been working in as head of police station for more than twenty years are different than what be believed. I think that it is not the violence that Ilie witnesses the main trigger to his change of heart, but the way he positions himself towards the world. And there are a couple of moments in the movie where we get to see who Ilie is, aside from a policeman, and thus vulnerable and human.
Black humour makes the story even more believable, while at the same time potentiating the gravity of the situation. The courage is also a type of character because it appears from time to time trying to assert itself.
Go watch ‚Men of Deeds’, believe me.
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