on the day the second world war ends, the rection to it is very different in poland vs the rest of the world. here, some feel that one colonizer is being replaces by another- the russians. in a small town outside warsaw, a hit man is hired by the resistance fighters to kill an aging communist leader; except that on that day he falls in love with a beautiful barmaid, who shows him the possibilities of a life outside. he is torn between his duty and his honour and the urge for a life beyond. a terrific film where his personal choices and symbols throughout represent the complicated nature of the nation being created in those days. some fantastic images- the burning vodka glasses on the bar table, the death scene on the garbage pile at the end, the inverted christ in the hollowed out church, the murder where the victim embraces his assassin, the blood on the bedsheets drying in the sun..
such a relief after the fiasco of ‘under one roof’.. a crappy campy cross cultural love story.
No comments:
Post a Comment