GWIAZDY
Watchable. A letdown. Hiring a Playboy model (Karolina Szymczak) to show her tits doesn't make a movie. Neither does dyeing Sebastian Fabijanski blonde to make him hot. I loathe the recent Polish obsession with making everything historic on the verge of political. A commentary is usually annoying too. I only enjoyed the film being in Silesian accent. Well imitated by non-Silesians.
GET OUT
Recommended. Full of mystery. For a larger part you're not sure if it's just the black guy feeling out of place in a posh white house or whether something's wrong for real. Everything you hear takes on a new, sinister meaning once you learn what's going on. Are Oscar nominations possible for such a movie? Because Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel and Lakeith Lee Stanfield well deserve them. The title is shown again at the end - I just loved it.
After reading other critics' opinions I feel compelled to add that
yes, the movie is about modern-day racism but this isn't why I
recommend it. I just find it to be a superintelligent thriller. At the
same time it's based on the separation of cultures. America has two histories, two cultures and two languages: black and white. A white person would abbreviate Andrew to Andy, not "Dre", like the black guy in the movie. Music listened to, clothing worn, accent spoken as well as the history, for some of dominance and for the others of slavery, set the two realities apart. Before the film it would have been to me inconceivable to see a china cup, for me cosy and homey, as a symbol of oppression. It's these parallel worlds of blacks and of whites that have made the script possible and so convincing.
"Get Out" seen courtesy of Cinema City - as I will state over and over again, the cinema with the comfiest seats in Warsaw.
Only after you've seen the movie, here's a thorough, sociological, full of spoilers explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gQP4ffowCY&feature=em-uploademail
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