GLUPCY (FOOLS)
Watchable. Excellent cinematography narrows down your world to the one on the screen and prevents you from leaving before the end. The story's a typical Polish drama about a terminally ill family member, with his moaning, screaming, family's helplessness and some incomprehensible reactions. It's studious: the man is carried like Christ taken off the cross, his hip bears an inexplicable whip mark, his hair and beard overgrown. Some actions are echoed, e.g. the changing a diaper movement is repeated in covering one's loins with a towel and moaning is echoed by sounds made by seals. The picturesque location on the sea soothes the painful moments. While the story is a bit hard to comprehend, at least the events are shown in a chronological order. The last scene turns the sense of the whole movie around.
Spoiler: the last line the black-haired woman says to the blonde one in water is: "Tomasz jest moim synem" ("Tomasz is my son").
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