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Umarla klasa (1977)
Far better than Fight Club
I enjoyed Dead class very much, They told me Wajda was disappointed by his own work but I don't know why. Maybe is acting too loud? Maybe acting was supposed to be more mechanical, actors more unrelated between them, but I think that's an impressive performance all the same. Culture is useless, children are dead, they are already lonely adults, adults are ex- children who can't remember their childhood. They behave like obsessed robots. Obsessed by memories of questions with automatic replies, that is by questions with no replies, everyone submitted to a questioning authority, everyone pursuing one's own impulses. Tyranny and nihilism. They can't see any world beyond their impulses and authority rules over them totally unseen. Autorithy is Kantor himself: actors think they are free, they are just destructive. Dead class reminds me of Fight club but I think Dead class is far better. Fight club says destructive impulses are a way to freedom, Dead class says they help authority to rule. And I think Kantor is right.
Ran (1985)
the only possible king lear today
i don't know, i think ran is not an up-to-date movie. too strong feelings for an era of mean feelings like ours. in ran a bloody old warrior is betrayed by two of his sons: only one is loyal but he's different from his father and his brothers. his elderly brothers are like his father, nothing can stop them on the way to the power. their betrayal and the following events are the old warrior's punishment for his crimes. the question: how could fathers expect loyalty from sons if they teach them to be so inhuman? well, i think a question like this is not so up-to-date. fathers don't teach so much these days, they are spoiled sons themselves of their women, like in shining, in competition with their children. maybe the only possible king lear today is vozvrashcheniye by zvyagintsev, kind of an upside-down king lear: an absent father who tries to restore his authority over children but fails because he can't give them welfare.