Eastern (2019) Poster

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4/10
Besides the non existent synopsis I also did not care too much for the way it ended
jordondave-2808529 October 2023
(2019) Eastern/ Ruthless (In Polish with English subtitles) THRILLER

This is another one of those movies where it made more sense to the makers who made it than the viewers who spent watching it. It is either that, or the English translators did not do a very good in translating it into English. Anyways, part of the synopsis above claims it is a "dystopian" movie, but yet there is zero indication of that at all. Co-written and directed by Piotr Adamski that has a woman hunter hunting another hunter and making it look like a suicide. We find out that it consists and is similar to the "Hatfields and the McCoys" scenario with two warring families who are at odds with one another between the "Nowak" family and the "Kowalska" family. And then later on in the movie, as soon as one Ewa Nowak (Maja Pankiewicz) drops her guard down she is then abducted at gun point, by Klara Kowalska (Paulina Krzyzanska) for the intention of using her as blackmail in exchange for money.

Besides not caring for the way the movie had ended, I was unable to find any plot either except to see many people babbling over nothing. Viewers neither understand nor are enlightened how this feud came about in the first place except that it is, and that the father (Marcin Czarnik) was paralyzed on one of their meetings.
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8/10
Vendetta in Poland
searchanddestroy-118 April 2022
What an interesting gem, this Polish movie which the topic is rather unexpected and exciting. Nothing Hollywoodian in this story, beautifully photographed and also set. If it took place in Corsica, it would be less surprising, because vendetta belongs to the Corsican, and I also guess Sicilian, DNA. Listen carefully to the score, it looks like a spaghetti western music. It is actually very difficult to put this unidentified film in a precise category.
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8/10
Family feud by contract in Poland
guisreis14 October 2022
This is a weird and unnecessarily confusing film, but an interesting and well produced one. The name is obviously a reference to Western genre, with its recurrent vendettas. However, the story is held in Eastern Europe, precisely in an upper middle class neighborhood Poland. The story takes place in an alternative present or in a near future, when weapons are as easy to buy as, let me say, the United States, and when family feuds are legalized and contractually established, and only blood money may interrupt the revenge killing circle. As Poland is actually in a very conservative and militaristic wave, the movie is particularly interesting due that political background. However, the odd naturalizing behavior of all characters (not a problem of acting, as they did a good job) makes all those situations not credible and, then, not very moving (the opposite, for instance, of Brazilian film on blood feud "Behind the Sun / Abril Despedaçado", which I strongly recommend). The end of "Eastern" is perfect, anyway.
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