Slumming (2006)

Rich slacker Sebastian has little respect for others, especially not women. Riding on his good looks and charm, he easily manipulates people, like his flatmate Alex. He enjoys playing with others; sometimes casually, sometimes cruelly, changing their lives.

Sebastian's favorite sport is slumming in Vienna's seedy bars and cafés in search of quirky characters to toy with. He also likes surfing for young women over the internet, seducing them with elaborate stories of truth, half-truth and lies. Grade school teacher Pia is his latest conquest. Or maybe this wallflower who talks too much when she's nervous has actually conquered him?

Their romance is jeopardized when Pia becomes angry about Sebastian's latest act of flippant cruelty: just for fun, he and Alex picked up an unconscious drunk off the street and drove him to the Czech Republic, where they dumped him without any ID.

Pia decides to rescue this man, Kallman, a down and out poet whose drinking binges usually result in ranting and raving and aggressive attempts to sell his poems on the street. Little does he know, he's about to have a moment of sudden revelation, lost and alone in the wintry Czech wildnerness…

I think it's brilliant that we don't get to know Sebastian that much. It focuses our attention to what is, what's going on and so on. We get to know Sebastian here and now. And that way kind of who he really is. For example, he dose not show his true self when he is chat dating, he never tells them what he does. He dose not say anything, really. So sort of we do get to know him better than most others.

This film totally flipped me over by the end of it. It was exciting to follow the whole time, but it was the end of it that impressed me. It's got the sneaky result of the development of the persons. It's hard to comment without ruining for others who has not watched it yet. But I can say it's the connection between the voice in the beginning and the voice at the end of the film, that really got to me. It's got a beautiful connection between two persons who we thought were so unlike..

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