On the Silver Globe 4K 1988 Ultra HD 2160p

The picture tells about an expedition to another planet. As a result of an accident, only three astronauts - Martha and two men, Peter and Jerzy - survived. Communication with Earth is lost, the survivors decide to settle on the seashore and give birth to a new human race.

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Polish director Andrzej Żulawski reminded me of a gangster from Koza Nostra who was owed money, and the picture itself reminded me of a debtor who failed to repay the debt in time. Most of the time the debtor is beaten out of money by violence; in case of disobedience, he is killed.... The director did everything to make the picture so beaten up that when looking at this substance the viewer was discouraged to watch it further; a mixture of blood, organs, dirt and human sins, and all this is done in a style close to noir.... It happened differently with the picture - there was an assassination attempt with the help of the Polish government, but fortunately, the picture, although it became an invalid, still got the right to life. The director wanted to show a lot, he wanted to say a lot, to convey and convey a lot.... and in the end he succeeded, or maybe he didn't; no, because it's customary not to take the monologues of lunatics seriously (unless, of course, you take the information as an artistic way of conveying the truth to the viewer). Therefore - this picture can be labeled 'ambiguous'. On the one hand one can feel the hand of a skillful philosopher who managed, at least for himself, to understand what the meaning of life is, but on the other hand - marasmatic verbiage, in the style of Y. Timoshenko. Timoshenko - the essence is clear, but you can smell the smell of inadequacy in the words.

The author focuses quite a lot of attention on humanity as a whole, as a cowardly or weak individual. 'There is a way out, but there is no one to go', 'there is life, but there is no one to live', etc. in a similar vein. At the time of free democratic cinema in the USA - Poland was still under the heavy hand of the leadership, which eventually influenced such an offensive amputation of some of the movie's ideas. Whatever you say, but the saying 'better to see once than hear a hundred times' fits perfectly. In the moments of absence of visuals (along with the voice-over of the director re-reading the script) I caught myself thinking that at this moment in time 'this' cannot be called a 'movie'; however, this is c'est la vie, so I put up with it and tried not to stray from the storyline (which was not easy to do).

Some time ago I heard, from someone I didn't know at all, the proverb 'without shit - you can't make shit', which put me in a stupor - 'what? - I thought' - and only now I begin to understand its meaning. No matter what - a man managed to transfer all the negativity from one place to another, even though in this 'other' place he was starting from scratch. Envy, anger, stupidity - all this came with the new generation, which, in idea, should have become utopian.

As for the visual component of the movie - everything is perfect (in the sense that after the absence, for such a long period of time, processing of the picture - it turned out very cool), and not yet familiar at that time 'shaking camera' - created a brilliant effect of presence (and from this - attachment), pseudo-documentary I always appreciate very highly.

I really liked the thing with the car, from where the music of the 70's sounded - like a ray of light among the threatening clouds, and the melody, representing a small glimpse of happiness, made me smile. It's not all that bad, it turns out... and all those dark, depressing sounds are getting tiresome. Yes, there were moments when I wanted to rewind the movie, but I held back; which I don't regret, because it would have been a crime to miss a word. In the end - I saw such an exact likeness of man's sin that I can be less surprised at the current state of things.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (68.1 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Info Audio

#Polish: FLAC 1.0
#Polish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by director Andrzej Zulawski, moderated by film historian Daniel Bird (2012))
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by film historian Daniel Bird)

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