This is a movie review for “TrainDriver's Diary”, released June 23, 2016 in Russia at the Moscow
Film Festival. This is a Serbian film, in the Serbian language. I
watched this via a streaming app on my Roku on April 25, 2019.
Trailer
Cast
{There are other characters but these are the most important and most prominent.}
Plot
An old train driver saves the life of a
10 year old orphan boy Sima that was walking on the track because he
had given up on life. Many years later, the boy is a young man
(having grown up under the care of a few train drivers) and has
aspirations of becoming one himself. As the boy starts losing his
sanity due to being afraid of running someone over, the old man
starts losing his own sanity thinking his (dead) sweetheart from 25
years ago had come back. The old man sees how much the stress and
worry about what it would be like running over someone is affecting
the young man and starts debating on what he can do to help. How can
he help the young man from losing his mind?
Official MPAA Rating (According to
IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute
waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of
something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but
could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly
amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie
all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
4.5/5 – It was a very interesting
movie, especially as a commercial driver. When you're driving for a
living, you do worry about what happens when you get into a crash. Of
course, it is more horrific for train drivers than bus drivers
because the time to stop can be miles after the crash, depending on
the speed of the train. The other part about this movie that I found
interesting is the fact that all of the train drivers accepted the
fact that they run over cars and people all of the time because
people are stupid around trains; psychologically, that is difficult
to wrap the mind around realizing and coming to terms with the fact
they are killers. If that is how the industry is, I would not be able
to be a train driver because of this factor.
The rating was knocked down for the
lack of emotion/love expressed from the adopted father to the “son”,
though it was great that he and Diesel beat up the guy that threw
Sima behind the wheel of a train without training/teaching him. I
mean seriously, if you are taking responsibility for that much weight
and power, get some training first!
(I don't understand why YouTube and IMDB both call it a "dark comedy"/"comedy" ; I did not find much comedy from it. Maybe that's because I am a commercial driver and know the fear that other commercial drivers have... Or I'm "just a square".)
Definitely at least Parental Guidance for rating because they are constantly talking about death, depression, and killing people.
That's my movie review. Thank you for
reading!
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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