Prvok, Šampón, Tečka and Karel remind of last year’s Bábovka. In both cases, it is a filming of a bestseller, in which the author of the original participated: Radka Třeštíková is signed under Bábovky as a co-writer, Patrik Hartl wrote his own film and directed it straight away. Through a mosaic of characters, both films try to show different approaches to life, relationships and other comfortably general themes in which everyone finds themselves. Both try to load comic situations into a serious framework (although there is a lot more to the protozoan’s quest for humor). And both substances, also under the guise of realism (the events take place in our here and now) suggest to the audience that it is actually normal to behave antisocially, or just like a sociopath.
Element and the others are high school classmates, which explains their adolescent nicknames, which they did not give up even a quarter of a century after graduation. When they meet at a class reunion, they agree that they are dissatisfied with their lives and that they feel a loss of ideals (which they metaphorically describe as “shrinking the testicles”). They decide on a kind of rebellion against conformity, which should take the form of performing unusual tasks. Need to undress on command.
Characters like crossword boxes
As is customary in “mass” Czech (tragi) comedies,
