петак

17.12.2010.

FILM:

A Short Film About Killing (1988)


A Short Film About Killing

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
The film takes place in a drab Warsaw and shows the interconnected lives of three men. Taxi driver Waldemar (Jan Tesarz) is not a particularly nice individual. He refuses fares, blows his horn to scare dogs and tries to pick up a young woman. Piotr (Krzysztof Globisz) is a nervous-looking young man who has just passed his examinations to become a lawyer. Nineteen-year-old Jacek (Miroslaw Baka) seems disaffected. He drops a small stone from a bridge over a roadway smashing a windscreen. In a coffee shop he spits in the dregs of his cup, as if to stop anyone else drinking it. He also uses a knife to cut a length of rope which he winds around his hands, as if preparing to strangle someone...