{"id":9929,"date":"2015-07-22T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2015-07-21T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:40:56","slug":"white-1994-krzysztof-kieslowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9929","title":{"rendered":"White (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still my least favorite of the trilogy, though it&#8217;s less mean-spirited than I remember it (final image of Julie Delpy seeking reconciliation after her ex has her falsely imprisoned is mostly what I&#8217;ve remembered).  Delpy&#8217;s in the movie for about five minutes &#8211; it&#8217;s mostly about her ex-husband Karol trying to get back on his feet after their divorce.  She (maliciously) leaves him homeless and unemployed, but he befriends a fellow Pole while begging in the Paris metro, gets back to Poland, earns a fortune in a realty scheme, starts a shady import business, then frames Delpy for his own faked murder.  The plot description sounds worse than the film itself, and the character described in paragraph form sounds like a total dick, while Karol seems more cuddly in person.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/white1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Karol is Zbigniew Zamachowski, who starred with his hairdresser brother Jerzy Stuhr in the final <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/336\">Decalogue<\/a><\/em> segment, in which they also played brothers.  Karol&#8217;s Gabriel Byrne-looking Polish friend is Janusz Gajos, a lead in the fourth <em>Decalogue<\/em>.  This won best director in Berlin (vs. <em>Philadelphia<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7750\">Smoking\/No Smoking<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>K.K.: &#8220;The subject of the film is humiliation &#8211; men are not, and do not want to be, equal.  The film is also about equality.&#8221;  His cowriter Piesiewicz: &#8220;I knew very well that people in fact didn&#8217;t want to be free. All consumerism and advertising is based on us not being equal. Equality of opportunity, yes.  But what does that mean? What&#8217;s needed most is empathy&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/white2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Also watched the great <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4534\">Talking Heads<\/a><\/em> short again, and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Seven Women of Different Ages<\/em> (1979, Kieslowski)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dancers at different stages.  First: young girls being pulled into position by a patient teacher, then older girls being screamed at by an abusive teacher.  Rehearsal, then on stage, then a terrified-looking woman doing a routine.  An understudy, watching closely but not actually practicing the moves.  Finally an instructor of young girls the age of the first segment &#8211; I wondered if it&#8217;s the actual teacher from that segment, but it&#8217;s not.  Fits in well with <em>Talking Heads<\/em>, obviously.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/white3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still my least favorite of the trilogy, though it&#8217;s less mean-spirited than I remember it (final image of Julie Delpy seeking reconciliation after her ex has her falsely imprisoned is mostly what I&#8217;ve remembered). Delpy&#8217;s in the movie for about five minutes &#8211; it&#8217;s mostly about her ex-husband Karol trying to get back on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,34,224,130,249,144,21],"class_list":["post-9929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-criterion","tag-france","tag-julie-delpy","tag-krzysztof-kieslowski","tag-poland","tag-revenge","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}