Oblawa

I admired Marcin's performance in Rosa. Because of that I somehow managed to get this movie as well. It is a complete anti-climax. The director (incidentally another Marcin) is under the impression that to win an award, the movie has to be extremely real life. For the movie to be real life, it has to be gruesome.. I don't know where he got this idea from??????????

You have a good set of actors, who try their best, at least it seems, to put up a good performance. The script also seems decent. But the way the movie has been made: it spoils a lot of things. If you look at the trailer: it would seem to be an excellent movie. If only these guys had made the movie in a simple linear fashion, I feel, it would have been terrific. What they ended up making was a complex and somewhat erratic set of flash-backs and at one place, childishly grotesque. You do not need to be a rocket scientist to tell a good story.