WATCH DOCS 2023
A JESLI JUTRO WOJNA SIE SKONCZY (WHAT IF THE WAR ENDS TOMORROW) AND Q&A
Watchable. Chaotic. What isn't in this film? From humiliations, e.g. being made run around the house naked, through stories of who was how successful before the war, to organizations. Additionally, the women's stories are all mixed, as if in accidental editing. Powerful stories of rapes, humiliations, disinformation, but also abducted daughters, nearly disappear in the junk. It jumps from one Ukrainian location to another and none is named.
The women wanted to show their faces. There was no translation during shooting the interviews. Yuliia is from around Donetsk. Russian occupiers took the boys to Moscow. Those authorities are the ones who took her parental rights away. Rapes are effected as soon as children enter orphanages and indoctrination that Russians are the saviours follows. A rape is the cheapest and the most long-term weapon. Perpetrators often say they did what others did. Group, no individual responsibility felt. In Rwanda there were special HIV-infected rapist troops. The same with the attackers of the woman tied to a post: they felt impunity. Someone did it first and then it just went on. Legally a war rape is a crime against humanity, they are tried for it. Some war criminals hide for 20-30 years in a country which hasn't signed the Rome Convention. Polish prosecution collects data on the war crimes for the International Criminal Court. At the end of 2023 Polish judges and prosecutors were training how to collect such statements.
DANGER ZONE AND Q&A WITH POLISH DIRECTOR KAMIL NIEWINSKI
Watchable. Adrenaline, feeling special, playing tough. Rich people pay $12 000 per tour because they want to get out of their golden cages and "superficiality". Locals are watched like in a zoo, children given toys or banknotes. Somalia: the sun, a blue ocean and guns. The tour organizer winds up the clients: "he's got a gun, he may shoot you". Posing for a photo at an execution site, the place which a tourist describes as "poignant". All this resembles "Framing the Other" - another Watch Docs offering from years ago.
In 2012 tourists went to the Golan heights in Israel to watch the shelling of Syria. The director wanted to create an impression we're on a tour. The female director couldn't go to Somalia because the country had constitutionally introduced sharia law so she wouldn't have been able to direct Somali men.
ALL FUN & GAMES
Walked out. Derivative and moronic. Asa Butterfield is fine enough as a good-natured elder brother but doesn't transform into a bloodthirsty maniac convincingly. Natalia Dyer has a very ugly haircut. Her sister or friend is lesbian for no specific plot reason. Stereotypical characters, props and set-up for a supernatural slasher. Rapid flashes of the past with theatrically looking and acting killers. Annoying. No fun.
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