Polish Cinema

Is an amazing thing. or rather it used to be. now its all about commercialism and making money. no longer do real artists have unlimited and relativley free resources. if 4 tier knockoffs of not so good American pictures are being mimiced, than movie like the deplorable Edi are. this is an embarassment to Poland's pioneering history of movies. it really is. i hate to say it, but when i was watching this film enthusiastically in Warsaw, i was bored to death by it. it had no idea what it wanted to be--a social comment, a drama between two friends, a crime-movie; some have even called this film a fairytale, which is great, except where's the magic? there's nothing bad about the story--the story seemed intriguing when i heard about it. but the execution was so lame and uninspired, that i tend not to metion it to people as being a Polish movie. for being artsy and "sensitive" and "emotional" or whatever you want to call it, its just another product like films like Kiler et al, are. its an Indie product, which just the same thing as a brain-dead formula-made product blockbuster, the only difference is in the wording. we need real movies in Poland, like Wajda's, the late Kieslowski, Zanussi's. we need Polanski again! Psy was a pretty ambitious and interesting film, though commerical contious. nothing bad about making money, but it seems that investors and producers in Poland are so cowardly that they'll give up any edgy, biting, and genuinley sincere filmmaking, only to beat negative costs. maybe it will change, but for now Polish films aren't worth much. not even to Polish people.