This documentary short by Krzysztof Kieslowski is set in a railway station. People are staring at the television, where a meeting by the government proposes to increase agricultural production by some unspecified nature, notes that many small economies add up to vast savings, and then, one by one, people complain that trains are being cancelled. Why is that? The official reason, it is explained, is that there are no passengers.
Indeed there aren't, since there are no trains arriving or departing. I was reminded of the old saying that at least Mussolini made the trains run on time. In Communist Poland, would trains hewing to schedule be seen as a sign of counter-revolutionary neo-Fascism?
Possibly. Let us order the sun and rain and the winds, so that more food will grow! But by all means, don't let the trains run on time; only G*d can make that happen, and officially there is no G*d.
And now an English movie.
