Stroszek

Stroszec tells of the deception of social rehabilitation, while maintaining ambiguous relationships with reality outside the film. It is just as much the character of Bruno as the actor Bruno himself who tries to reconcile himself with society. Bruno S. had experienced life confined in mental health institutes and was no stranger to a certain marginality. The film starts out with sordid realism, then tips into a sort of allegory, a philosophical tale targeted against consumer society and free-marketism. Here the American dream does not stay a dream: America is not a continent where everything is possible, but rather a place of disillusion and bitterness. The utopia of the myth is swept away by the reality of capital, which will once again exclude anti-hero Bruno from the world of others.