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I recommend "Blind Chance". It follows three storylines about a man trying to catch a train where different events cause his life to unfold differently. It real

I recommend "Blind Chance". It follows three storylines about a man trying to catch a train where different events cause his life to unfold differently. It really makes you think about all the small events that have occurred in your life that snowball to make you who you are.

odiroot 4y ago
Very good recommendation. I was taken to this movie by my (secondary school, I believe) teacher. It really moved me, although I don't agree with suggestion that movie is making: staying neutral is the worst choice you can make. Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at the same time.
- Swizec 4y ago
  > staying neutral is the worst choice > best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution See that’s the thing with rhetoric. It’s easy to say from the safety of our modern lives. Or as my mom used to say: “It’s easy to shit when your butt is full” Growing up in almost eastern europe (slovenia), you’d hear a lot of stories from ye olden days of what was and wasn’t said. What people did and didn’t do. At the end of the day, you can be all the hero you want, but the only thing that matters long-term is whether you got scooped up into the murder pits or not. Objectively, neither side was that great. In the 60’s and 70’s we built memorials to fallen comrades bravely fighting the fascist oppressor. In the 90’s and 00’s we built memorials to the fallen souls bravely dying in communist murder pits during that same period. shrug
  - foobarian 4y ago
    Sometimes when my elders reminisced about the darker parts of that era they mentioned "getting swallowed by the night." One other fun story from a relative who participated in a work action just after war building a railroad. It was pouring rain, and that day Tito came through to visit/peptalk. According to her, he said "Is it raining comrade?" to which she retorted "It is not raining comrade Tito, it is a sunny day!"
    - mistrial9 4y ago
      US military type guys with truck caps doing manual labor on some strict team say exactly this kind of nonsense too, right now.
- KptMarchewa 4y ago
  >Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at the same time. Till 1956? Yes. After? The regime was bad, but less violent like some of the modern dictatorships, for example current Putin's Russia. Low level activism could result in losing job, but not execution. Imagine that perpetrators of Navalny poisoning were actually tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
  - odiroot 4y ago
    It returned in the 80's. Many people were "disappeared". A few members of my family were interned. One was brutally beaten and tortured and never recovered from it.
ttlsa 4y ago
Pretty much everything directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski is worth watching.
achairapart 4y ago
Second this! Also other early films by Kieślowski: Amateur, No End, A Short film about love, A short film about killing.
andrea76 4y ago
Where is this movie? Is it subtitled in English?
- makerofspoons 4y ago
  It's here: https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-chance https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-chance Unfortunately, it does not appear to have English subtitles on this site according to the icons (I cannot create an account to check at the moment). It does look like you can rent the film with subtitles quite cheaply from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Boguslaw/dp/B015ENAF20 https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Bogusl...
  - M4v3R 4y ago
    According to the About the Project [1] section of the page: > All film materials presented on the 35mm.online platform meet the requirements of WCAG 2.0 - they have audio descriptions, transcriptions, subtitles in Polish and English, as well as comprehensive descriptions. For foreigners, the entire film library of the Platform is available in English. So I assume that this one also has English subtitles. The icon below the film is only about the available audio language options. Edit: Just double checked and yes, the English subtitles are available for this one (and all other films). [1] https://35mm.online/en/articles/about-the-project https://35mm.online/en/articles/about-the-project
crispyambulance 4y ago
"A Short Film about Killing" is absolutely devastating. It exists in 2 forms: a shortened version that is one part of Kieślowski's 10-part Television series "Dekalog" and a longer standalone version. I would also add the masterpieces he is most known for: "The Double Life of Veronique" and the trilogy, "Red", "White", and "Blue". Of these "White" is the most accessible, it stars a very young and luminous Julie Deply. https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/a-short-film-about-killing-trailer https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/a-short-film-about-k... https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/three-colors-white-trailer https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/three-colors-white-t...
- BryantD 4y ago
  The trilogy is currently in re-release to celebrate a new 4K transfer. If you live in a US city with an arthouse theater you might be able to catch it on the big screen.
- lr1970 4y ago
  All 10 pieces of Decalog (Dekalog) are worth watching. Kieslowski is one of the greatest film directors of all time.
js2 4y ago
Is Sliding Doors a remake of that? Hmm, Wikipedia doesn’t say for certain.

odiroot 4y ago

Very good recommendation. I was taken to this movie by my (secondary school, I believe) teacher. It really moved me, although I don't agree with suggestion that movie is making: staying neutral is the worst choice you can make. Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at the same time.

Swizec 4y ago
> staying neutral is the worst choice > best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution See that’s the thing with rhetoric. It’s easy to say from the safety of our modern lives. Or as my mom used to say: “It’s easy to shit when your butt is full” Growing up in almost eastern europe (slovenia), you’d hear a lot of stories from ye olden days of what was and wasn’t said. What people did and didn’t do. At the end of the day, you can be all the hero you want, but the only thing that matters long-term is whether you got scooped up into the murder pits or not. Objectively, neither side was that great. In the 60’s and 70’s we built memorials to fallen comrades bravely fighting the fascist oppressor. In the 90’s and 00’s we built memorials to the fallen souls bravely dying in communist murder pits during that same period. shrug
- foobarian 4y ago
  Sometimes when my elders reminisced about the darker parts of that era they mentioned "getting swallowed by the night." One other fun story from a relative who participated in a work action just after war building a railroad. It was pouring rain, and that day Tito came through to visit/peptalk. According to her, he said "Is it raining comrade?" to which she retorted "It is not raining comrade Tito, it is a sunny day!"
  - mistrial9 4y ago
    US military type guys with truck caps doing manual labor on some strict team say exactly this kind of nonsense too, right now.
KptMarchewa 4y ago
>Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice to avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at the same time. Till 1956? Yes. After? The regime was bad, but less violent like some of the modern dictatorships, for example current Putin's Russia. Low level activism could result in losing job, but not execution. Imagine that perpetrators of Navalny poisoning were actually tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
- odiroot 4y ago
  It returned in the 80's. Many people were "disappeared". A few members of my family were interned. One was brutally beaten and tortured and never recovered from it.

ttlsa 4y ago

Pretty much everything directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski is worth watching.

achairapart 4y ago

Second this! Also other early films by Kieślowski: Amateur, No End, A Short film about love, A short film about killing.

andrea76 4y ago

Where is this movie? Is it subtitled in English?

makerofspoons 4y ago
It's here: https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-chance https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-chance Unfortunately, it does not appear to have English subtitles on this site according to the icons (I cannot create an account to check at the moment). It does look like you can rent the film with subtitles quite cheaply from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Boguslaw/dp/B015ENAF20 https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Bogusl...
- M4v3R 4y ago
  According to the About the Project [1] section of the page: > All film materials presented on the 35mm.online platform meet the requirements of WCAG 2.0 - they have audio descriptions, transcriptions, subtitles in Polish and English, as well as comprehensive descriptions. For foreigners, the entire film library of the Platform is available in English. So I assume that this one also has English subtitles. The icon below the film is only about the available audio language options. Edit: Just double checked and yes, the English subtitles are available for this one (and all other films). [1] https://35mm.online/en/articles/about-the-project https://35mm.online/en/articles/about-the-project

crispyambulance 4y ago

"A Short Film about Killing" is absolutely devastating. It exists in 2 forms: a shortened version that is one part of Kieślowski's 10-part Television series "Dekalog" and a longer standalone version. I would also add the masterpieces he is most known for: "The Double Life of Veronique" and the trilogy, "Red", "White", and "Blue". Of these "White" is the most accessible, it stars a very young and luminous Julie Deply. https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/a-short-film-about-killing-trailer https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/a-short-film-about-k... https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/three-colors-white-trailer https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/three-colors-white-t...

BryantD 4y ago
The trilogy is currently in re-release to celebrate a new 4K transfer. If you live in a US city with an arthouse theater you might be able to catch it on the big screen.
lr1970 4y ago
All 10 pieces of Decalog (Dekalog) are worth watching. Kieslowski is one of the greatest film directors of all time.

js2 4y ago

Is Sliding Doors a remake of that? Hmm, Wikipedia doesn’t say for certain.