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As a border-line autistic and mentally abused child, I just watched my childhood pass-by. I was never in my own life, just followed what happened to me, like watching a movie. My childhood was like boot-camp. Now that I'm older, I'm breaking out by reconstructing my new, more happy life thru understanding movies like this. Excellent movie, showing decisions/choices through logic that I am beginning to understand, versus instant obedience. Abandoned helped me understand childrens thought-process as it should have been for me. Good photopgraphy, color and direction. I would recommend to anyone, but you need to watch it closely without distractions. I have watched it 3 times already, and each time I understand the film and myself better.

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A Profoundly Disturbing, Resonant Film
'Torzýk' ('Abandoned') is a brilliant Hungarian film written and directed by ýrpýd Sopsits that takes us back to Hungary of 1960 when the oppressive Communist rule altered the lives of everyone, especially children. The quality of the film is absolutely first rate from story to acting to filming to scoring. It may be a tough film to absorb and certainly not for the easily offended, but it is a perfectly honed gem of a film that deserves wide audience exposure. <
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>ýron (Tamýs Mýszýros) is a young lad whose life seems warm at first until suddenly a disease of vision impairment attacks his mother and his parents divorce: the mother is somewhere in a hospital and the father (Sýndor Gýspýr) beats the boy and eventually turns him over to a rigid orphanage for boys run by cruel taskmasters. ýron undergoes initiation tactics by his fellow orphans but despite the beatings he is strong enough to survive. He is befriended when he has his nightmares about his mother's blindness by his friend Atilla (Szabolcs Csizmadia) and the two bond emotionally and physically. In this bleak atmosphere a little light comes from the beautiful young housekeeper Anya (Krisztina Somogyi) but even her contributions are compromised by the cruelty of the staff. There is one 'teacher' in the orphanage school, Nyitrai (Lýszlý Gýlffi) who has been reduced to his position as an 'imprisoned one' by the government and his sadness is offset by his playing his cello and studying his beloved astronomy. Nyitrai offers ýron solace and introduces his 'fellow traveler' to the glory of the stars, giving ýron a map of the heavens that ýron cherishes - his window to a world beyond the dark confines of his prison-like orphanage. He gradually wins over his fellow orphans and when Nyitrai, in the pit of depression for his life situation and the cruelty of the orphanage and the government, hangs himself. This horrid incident drives ýron to organize an escape from the orphanage, an event that is ultimately fractured with a death for which ýron feels responsible. And the end of the film fades into the many possibilities that event could trigger. <
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>The atmosphere created by the stunning cinematography by Pýter Szatmýri defines the darkness that represents the orphanage well but also suggests the darkness in Hungary of that period. The musical score by Pýter Fejcsik, Tamýs Gýrgýnyi, Ferenc Toma, and Balýzs Winkler is some of the most beautiful composed for the screen, making tremendously effective use of the cello and lower strings. In all, this is a brilliant piece of filmmaking, acted with depth in every role, and unveiling a portion of history and tragedy too often pushed to the background of our books. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, March 06 <
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Abandoned
A fun little movie, but not really what I was really expecting. I was expecting more bed time from the main boy with the other boy that he was suppose to be fooling around with. I wasn't expecting any of the other kids to die on their escape from the orphanage.