Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online

35mm.online

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 92 posts

Re: Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online

#13

Post by Swizec »

odiroot wrote: post #8
makerofspoons wrote: post #5

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.

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.

> 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

Re: Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online

#16

Post by andrea76 »

makerofspoons wrote: post #5

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.

Where is this movie? Is it subtitled in English?

Re: Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online

#20

Post by KptMarchewa »

odiroot wrote: post #8
makerofspoons wrote: post #5

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.

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.

>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

Post reply on HN