The film Shark in the Head (?ralok v hlave) may have you a little confused by the breaks in narrative, but if you stick with it you will have an insider?s view into the head of a mentally ill and lonely Czech man.

In the film directed by Maria Proch?zkov?, Mr. Seaman played by Oldrick Kaiser, is either sitting at or standing outside of his window smoking. He regularly removes items from one of the three rubbish bins outside and gives them as gifts to passers by. One of two of his best friends are a mother (Jana Krausov?) and daughter (Krist?na Leichtov?). He imagines the mother as his future love and in one scene envisioned a silhouette of her dancing.

One can almost think that he and the mother are getting closer, but the truth is revealed when he asks for her hand.

The film is mainly set on one street in the Czech Republic, with Mr. Seaman only leaving his street once, otherwise he helps or tries to make anyone happy. This is of course when he is not rambling surreal statements about war and dropping missiles.

When inside the apartment he watches television and the surfaces of everything turns red. The red strips then turn into little red beads, which later multiply.

Mr. Seaman also has a stint at painting, but the only thing he finds appealing are chickens, and he paints chickens, chickens and more chickens. The birds start off yellow and then he puts a red line around them.

The scenes of his building are grey and his main views are from his window to the rubbish bin, to the street and to passers by.

Shark in the Head is filmed over the course of a year, but he dresses the same throughout ? donned either in a pair of boxers and a vest and once appearing quite dapper in a suit with Birkenstocks.

At first it is not clear that you are watching the inner workings of a mentally ill man, but the film does hint that there is a health problem when everything blurs. But it is not until the end that you become aware that he is a schizophrenic. All and all Shark in the Head is a quiet watch, which doesn?t have a conventional narrative. There are huge gaps of him being silent, but I must admit that the gaps aren?t so long where it causes a loss of concentration. If you are interested in a film which gives you a little insight into the mind of a non-paranoid and non-violent schizophrenic?s mind, then this is the film for you.