Movie #178 "Katyn" - maybe I've seen too many Holocaust films, but this one brought very little emotion to me; in fact, for the first time on this subject. I felt the ending was more gratuitous violence than a powerful look at what really happened. The story is basically below, not much more, really, and the characters looked a lot alike, and weren't introduced very well, so I was only able to really feel for one mother and her child (the first ones we are introduced to). I didn't know this story and I expected to learn more about it, but the film seemed long and cold and stark, and not very effective to me. I saw it last night, hoping that my first reaction would change by the morning, but it didn't. I know it was nominated for an Oscar, but I've seen so many more pictures on the subject (though not the same exact story) that are far better. "The boy in the striped pajamas" is one of the best I've seen lately. Rent that. (oh, one more thing which added me not enjoying this film so much was the subtitles. 1) they came on along with Polish subtitles, so your eyes were wandering around where to look and 2) they went too quickly and 3) the polish language that the people were speaking was audially displeasing --- everything was staccato and mean-sounding, if that makes sense. So each time I was to read the subtitles, there were distractions (see above). That just added to me not liking this film so much.
Average rating: 3.61
I gave it 3 stars
Katyn
Post Mortem: Opowiesc Katynska
(2007) NR
Polish director Andrzej Wajda helms this Oscar-nominated drama based on the 1940 massacre of some 20,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia at the hands of Soviet troops, along with the stories of the wives and children who survived them. How did they carry on in the face of such horror, especially when responsibility was publicly denied by the perpetrators? Joachim Paul Assböck, Andrzej Chyra and Stanislawa Celinska star.
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