Some people who watched 4, 3, 2 tried to consider it in relation the
movies of Nemescu. Who has the highest artistic value, Mungiu or
Nemescu?

I think the two Romanian directors should not be compared, as they
belong to totaly different art universes.

Nemescu is discovering the magic in the sordid. His world is between
Fellini and Kusturica.

Mungiu has rather the style of Capote. Voluntarily dry, strictly
factual, avoiding emotion. Just following the facts in their
development, following them with minutia. It is probably the only
way to tell a fundamental story.

I don't think the movie of Mungiu is only a document against
Ceausescu's regime. It is much more. The Communist epoch is in the
movie just a support for the truth of a fudamental story: the story
of friendship. Yes, 4-3-2 is not about the terror of the Communist
universe, and it is not about pro-choice versus pro-life. It is
about friendship, beyond any limit. Friendship, so fundamental that
anything esle, the whole universe, is senseless, alien, trivial.

And the last scene, with the two girls at the table in the
restaurant, a bottle and a plate between them, this gave me the key
of the movie. The scene was strictly necessary in the logic of the
movie - this movie is a haiku about friendship. Weird and dry,
actually subtle and sophisticated.

With the last scene, Mungiu proves himself to be at the highness of
the greatest Asian moviemakers. 4-3-2 is difficult to be understood -
at first level an accuzation against Communism, actually a haiku.
It is beyond Communist universe, because it is beyond any universe.
It is the fundamental parable of friendship.