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Actually you'd be surprised how people get sloppy with time not even minding any intentionally postmodern (like in WARSAW 44) or even performed by mistake blend of different styles. As time goes by and years pass if anybody sees the movie in 10-15 years electronic music would seem ancient and closer to WWII than ever, I guess.

I guess not only true and knowing filmgoers can appreciate the effort and bravery behind this type of approach towards making not an artsy fartsy film but a real superbudget epic which is even more crazy and rare.

As far as I'm interested in historical matters this movie follows the facts pretty well. It only uses the very specific and thought-provoking interpretation of facts which may seem awkward and too out of the box to some. I loved it and that's what I'm looking for as a viewer. If I need bare factual material I'd rather pursue a good book on the subject or a documentary, even though these might be flawed, rather than watching a feature film. There's always a director behind it. And he or she shouldn't (and it's impossible for him to) behave like a freaking observer or stiff as a tripod even. His job is to take facts and put them through himself in order to deliver his vision. With some it's more surreal or shocking with others less but with features it's always a conception and it usually is stronger than with documentaries showing actual events.

So I don't agree with your point of view and I find it pretty peculiar. There's no rules in art but one - stay true to your vision when showing it off to others. You can't require directors to just "recreate the period to the best" - it's just a very narrow view or just one side of a coin. If directors and producers would follow your rules not only movies like Apocalypse Now, Inglorious Basterds, Life is Beautiful, Romeo + Juliet, 300, Clash of Titans, Noah, Django, Great Gatsby (period movie with hip-hop songs), Marie Antoinette (period movie with rock songs in it - check it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeDir90Nd7Q ) but many many more great ones would have never been produced.

It's not a trick "someone tried to pull off" but film, as any other art form, has an inalienable right to brake rules to prove its point. WARSAW 44 uses this "tricks" to express the madness of war and finds contemporary factors enabling many to feel the taste of this horrific war as if it was part of or closer to their most current life and issues. And through it the movie shows us how history taught us that how we never learn from it.

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