CIEMNO, PRAWIE NOC (DARK, ALMOST NIGHT)
Watchable. Disarrayed weirdness. Huge chaos which makes sense only after 80 minutes (out of 111 minutes). Theatrically overacted. With consensual adult sex and some oedipal nude scenes for no reason. A protagonist also blinds himself like Oedipus. Lots of violence, murders, incest, paedophilia. But most of all weirdness. The dark imagery makes sense as the form of children's coping with the experience of sex abuse. Lots of heavy string music. However a number of events and characters from the 489-page-long novel by Joanna Bator are squeezed into the movie unnecessarily. I'm still not sure if I fully got it. The book clarifies the movie plot, though the order of events in the novel is slightly different than in the film. Still, such incomprehensible weirdness, whether in literature or movies, only in Poland.
EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE
Recommended. Phenomenally acted and perfectly structured. Zac Efron is amazing as Ted Bundy. The murderer was told to be attractive, something I could never understand because in pictures and interviews he looks quite average. It was only Zac Efron who, impersonating him, spread such charm around the serial killer, demonstrated his acuity, intelligence, exuded eroticism that I finally realized why all women would fall into his web. The actor was so convincing I only hope he didn't kill anyone while preparing for the role. Still, when I compared charming Zac Efron with cocky, aggressive Ted Bundy from a documentary... maybe the actor overdid the lure? The actual people are shown in documentary footage at the end. They look better in the Hollywood film than in real life however. The shocking volume of admiration for the murderer is one of surprisingly funny fragments. The film is an excerpt of his life, skipping his psychology studies and focusing on his education in law. His statement that "killers live among us" is some food for thought.
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