A Short Film About Love

04 June 2023

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Once upon a time I watched Krzysztof Keslevski’s film “Cinema lover”, the film I liked, the director remembered, then there were the famous “Three colors”. Today caught the eye of "Short film about love", 1988, this is a slightly modified one of the novels of "The Decalogue", which I watched with pleasure. It would seem that there is nothing special in the plot, but it is filmed so that the heart hurts. A young guy Tomek, a former orphanage, settles with his friend’s mother while a friend has been traveling somewhere for a long time. By inheritance from a friend, he gets the object of voyeurism - a woman in the window opposite, first he watches her through binoculars, then steals a spyglass in the school office and then the observation becomes closer. However, Tomek is not just a voyeur, he really fell in love with this woman and if at first he watched the intimate moments of her life, sometimes trying to interfere with them, then gradually he stops doing it. In the end, there will be their acquaintance, but at some point the woman will not behave quite decently, which will lead to almost a tragedy, but here and in her soul there will be a shift, something will rise from the already almost deadened depths of the soul.

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03 July 2020

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Continuation of marginal analysis
Like the previous film, The Short Murder Story continues to explore the inner world and inner motivations of declassified, marginal elements. In this case, the image is more vivid and therefore the aversion to it is stronger: an orphanage without a normal reaction to human emotions, stupid mechanistic work on issuing letters - all this proves the extreme degree of defectiveness of the boy. More. Developing criminal tendencies - theft, voyeurism, interference in someone else's life, persecution. Usually such characters are pathological serial maniacs, but here they ineptly try to portray him as too young and inexperienced, but no, a healthy person does not cut veins from shameful pollution.

The incomprehensible weak work of the operator and the general simplicity of the script is surprising. ' Case', shot 7 years ago, three heads higher, even some nonsense for TV in terms of quality. Watch if the film is interesting.

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