REVIEW: The movie One Night promises something that it almost isn’t

The successful musician and singer Adam (Adam Ernest) loads a female fan into his car after one of the blasted concerts in a heavily intoxicated state. As is apparently his habit (to the question “Are you married?” he answers “Does that matter?”), he heads somewhere private with her, but crashes fatally on the way. So much for the film’s prologue.

Immediately, we transfer to a time when Adam has been released from prison for some time, he still has the same wife Eliška (Vanda Chaloupková) and a six-month-old child with her. But the band disowned him and he couldn’t get any other work than shoveling. The family is desperately short of money, the amount that Adam has to pay to the survivors, together with the debts that he could not pay off from prison, has grown to gigantic proportions.

All of this could certainly happen, and even an averagely astute viewer will quickly find more than one solution. But Adam is a sinful person with whom it is impossible to form even the slightest sympathetic relationship, let alone understanding. He doesn’t even try to settle personal bankruptcy with the authorities, get a better-paid job, take proper care of the child, and he still complains painfully. And from the little money he earns, he drinks a lot of it in the pub, smokes it and throws it into the machines.

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But his wife still loves him, and in order to support the family and pay off his debts, she runs a sexual live chat every night, a sacrifice that he accepts with incredible self-acceptance and then reproaches her rudely for it.

Their quarrels are crazy, the child is constantly roaring, which is outwardly explained by growing teeth, but it is clear that parental infernos do not contribute to a peaceful sleep.

In the single night during which the film takes place, Adam makes so many bad, and also very stupid, decisions, often outside the law, that reason remains at a standstill.

Self-destruction can be a supporting theme as well as the aforementioned sex live chats. These are allegedly an increasingly used form of sex, according to Laňka one of the “topics of the day”. But the plot that the author stuck to it is so bad that it didn’t actually become a topic.

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A woman on a sex live chat, a miserable man and a baby, that’s a family to behold.

Goofs like the movie Adam certainly exist. The question is, why make movies about them when they don’t say anything other than that such a person is a scumbag. There is not the slightest overlap, the story that Laňka invented is a pure construction that does not resemble life at all.

Almost everything that moves the plot stumbling forward happens by accident. Adam meets the same prostitute twice in one night, the first time he robs her, the second time she robs him.

By chance, he meets a waitress who has a long-term crush on him, and takes advantage of it. It is apparently the fate of Bolsín sociopaths that they are loved by beautiful women… By the way, Adam is even such a moron that even though he is an ex-convict, he will return a looted wallet with his own fingerprints to the safe.

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The proclaimed love story is completely unbelievable, especially Elišča’s love for Adam. He killed the girl he wanted to hook her up with, put her in debt, she does things for him that she hates, he on the other hand does nothing to repair the damage he has done. Eliška probably doesn’t even know what she loves about him.

That can happen in life. But the film is not life, and in order for it to be believable in the film, the viewer would have to at least guess the reason for her undying love. Unfortunately, he doesn’t even know it from the average performances of the two main actors.

The film does not have a rhythm to attract the viewer, some scenes are repeated, while the ones with the screaming child are literally killing. More than about love and the loss of intimacy between people, which could be a very interesting film, One Night is about a person you didn’t need to know.