This film is not about the crazy passions of people, as it may seem from a brief description. Not that at all. Not about drugs, poker, money - all this background, husk. This movie is about happiness. Or misfortune. I don't know. It depends on how you look at the world: it’s either half empty or half full, happy or unhappy. But who's happy with half? Nobody!
In fact, of course, everyone is unhappy, but they try their best to demonstrate their happiness to others – that everything is like people, or even better. And everybody's lying to each other. And nobody believes each other. Even if they smile sometimes. And they make each other nasty so that the neighbor does not have much happiness. You want to be happy. Bigger than myself. I want the happiness that you feel when you tingle in your fingers, when you feel the warmth of the sun in your stomach, the happiness that Jesus experienced. Total happiness. Perfect harmony. With everyone and everything in the universe.
Everyone has an addiction. Not drugs, alcohol, or anything else, but happiness. And a pump, a drug injector, is a great birthday present, and happiness should be permanent. After all, a person begins to want happiness again as soon as it ends. I just wish it didn’t end!! Dependence on happiness... Is that a bad thing?
The main character is a kind of scarecrow - a lonely, drug-dependent agoraphobe with narcolepsy and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He wants happiness, too. He wants complete harmony with everyone and everything in the universe. But an aggressive, hostile and envious world prevents it from being happy.
Yes, a cowslip is a primrose, a flower like that. The first flower is one of the few that opens when he is all alone. It grows slowly, inconspicuous and incomprehensible - it will be beautiful when it grows up. If he grows up, of course. If they don't. Strange flower. Rare, unusual. But cow is also a bogeyman, and slip is also to move easily, gently, without attracting attention. A lonely scarecrow that does not attract attention - is this how it happens?
Such a flower (or scarecrow?) is hated or loved insanely. They hate more. And stomping. And since it is impossible to live happy, there is only one thing left: to die of happiness.
This is a very good and moving film.
9 out of 10