![]() ![]() Among the numerous pleasures The Treasure offers is an endearing but unsentimental image of a father who judges himself through the eyes of his son. Later in the film, Costi chides his wife for letting Alin know he’s out looking for a treasure because it will set him up for disappointment. In a tender bit of education, he instructs Alin to push the bully away and scream, but not to hit him. A little further, when he learns that Alin is being bullied by a classmate at school, Costi kneels down to teach his son how to handle it. This offhand exchange, which has little to do with the plot of the film, functions as a kind of primal wound in the father-son relationship that Costi will attempt to mend. ![]() Alin doesn’t buy it, and tells Costi he isn’t Robin Hood. Costi replies that he wasn’t late, merely hiding, and that Robin Hood is never late. Seated at the back of a car, Alin (Nicodim Toma) is upset that his father Costi (Toma Cuzin), offscreen, was late to pick him up from school. The Treasure, the fiction film Corneliu Porumboiu made between two splendid documentaries, The Second Game and Infinite Football, begins with an image of paternal anxiety that would be at home in either of the latter films.
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