An unscrupulous political regime barricades itself behind lies, threats and flexed authoritarian muscle to cowl up an incident of police brutality. The backdrop to this meticulously detailed thriller from Jan P Matuszyński is Poland 1983, on the ragged, spiteful tail finish of communism. However this story, triggered by cops taking the regulation into their very own fingers – fingers which can be clenched into fists – is just not as far faraway from the current day because it could be.
Matuszyński infuses the movie with a nervy, unstable vitality from the outset, with a snaking, unbroken shot that weaves by way of the house of poet and activist Barbara Sadowska (Sandra Korzeniak). It’s an area wherein concepts are exchanged freely, and the place Barbara’s son Grzegorz (Mateusz Górski) and his good friend Jurek (Tomasz Ziętek) tussle, spirits excessive after their ultimate faculty exams. This exuberance spills out on to the streets, the place it attracts the eye of militia thugs. The boys are taken into custody and Grzegorz, the extra overtly confrontational of the 2, is savagely crushed. Jurek’s standing, as the one witness to the assault, turns into more and more precarious.
The movie is predicated on a infamous actual occasion, and there's a grim sense of inevitability to the storytelling at instances, compounded by the suitably murky color palette and the overlong operating time. However with the assistance of a few excellent performances from Ziętek and Agnieszka Grochowska, as Jurek’s mom, and its obsessive consideration to interval element, the movie lastly unravels the serpentine coils of corruption.
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