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Not so much about the movie, I see... So let's say something about it.


With "Smoleńsk" in Poland there is a problem - that movie was made by people, who wanted to show the alternative version of Lech Kaczynski's (and other Polish VIPs') death. Four movie's writers were not typical scenarist - they were publicists, historians and writers, who mainly wanted to show those abnormalities connected with catastrophe and after that. Not like "JFK" for example.

And here is the problem - they made a movie showing, what was wrong with catastrophe and investigation - but only that. They didn't made a good scenario with a plot, interesting threads etc. - and that makes this movie so weak. Very, very weak, even if it's director Antoni Krauze was a man responsible for some not bad Polish movies, for example "Czarny Czwartek. Janek Wiśniewski padł" from 2006, which shows a socialist police killing workers in December, 1970. They didn't, because in some part they didn't have to do that. Other thing is Beata Fido as journalist Nina, who is a very weak actress showing so few in her part - you can see it, when in the scene there is more professional Polish actor, Marek Bukowski, playing experienced pilot.

Another thing are special effects etc. - they're also not so good, but the problem was, that movie makers had a problem with money, partly because they were making a movie showing government not the best light - so they had no help from state institutions. Yes, it's still a problem in out country - paradoxically, the best Polish movies comes from the not the best times...

And in the end, there is also a situation, which you can see it here - people in Poland are so at odds based of politics, which includes the catastrophe - and that's so many are writing here so strange things. It's sad, because it shows our country not in the best way - but mostly it has no connection with a movie...

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"Four movie's writers were not typical scenarist - they were publicists, historians and writers, who mainly wanted to show those abnormalities connected with catastrophe"

yes, these guys are leading activists of the Smolensk industry, which turned out to be a not only a very lucrative business activity but it turned out to be a political springboard for halfwits

This thing itself is a good illustration of what is going to happen to Polish education, universities, science, cultural life when Smolensk myth becomes a state religion.

It will be a even greater torture to live in Poland than before 1989 ....

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