On the Silver Globe 4K 1988 Ultra HD 2160p

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Three astronauts - two men and one woman - leave Earth to start a new civilization. Landing their starship on a desert planet, they begin the work of repopulating it.

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When sitting down to watch any Andrzej Żulawski movie, it is advisable to be an unprepared viewer. That's when the reaction will be as immediate as possible, although there is a chance that the movie will lose the viewer after twenty minutes. But risk is not always a bad thing, is it? Anyway, if you want a thrill and are ready to take a risk, you don't have to read the following paragraphs.

And the synopsis of the movie is really intriguing. And the story of filming can well be called a tragedy for the director of author's cinema. It would seem that a good professional director will be able to quickly and qualitatively realize the storyline on the screen, but everything is different in Zhulawski's case. Having a science fiction background, the movie quickly goes far to the side - it turns into a real tangle of naked nerves and vicious passions. A fantasy that lures the viewer into the depths of the Old Testament - for full authenticity, the only thing missing is the Great Flood, eager to wash away human sins. The plot quickly ceases to matter, because for the director it is much more important to cover the image of cowardly and zombified mankind on the basis of vivid examples than to tell another story, of which there are many in cinema. It is simply impossible to cover and keep in your head the crazy monologues of almost all characters (I give you credit - it is necessary to possess not a small imagination that would prescribe THAT), and no less crazy operator's outbursts can cause a feeling of bewilderment. Though the operator's work perfectly works on the atmosphere of the movie and with all its randomness manages to catch the very essence of the frame. The movie is beautiful. It's set in a bluish color scheme, you'll rarely see red or green there. Even the color of blood seems deliberately darkened. The entourage and costumes are also impressive - you can see at once that the director approached the matter as a real perfectionist.

Speaking of perfectionists. The film may cause associations with the last long-building Alexei German Sr., the adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers. We are talking about the picture 'Hard to be God', where we also see a completely different planet, mired in a completely different era, and where literally in the air hangs an atmosphere of spiritual and physical violence. Even the approach of the directors is similar - for both of them the imagery of the movie is much more important than the plot. But while Herman emphasizes dirt and hopelessness, Zhulawski rules over chaos and madness. Herman has meticulous stylization, while Zulawski has frenzied energy. Choose for yourself what is closer to you.

This movie is a good reason to hate censorship in art. At the most crucial moment, the Polish government banned filming, destroyed the sets and forced the director to leave the borders of his native country. Only ten years later did Zulawski return with the rest of the movie, edited it, while commenting on the missing scenes. And only then was the movie finally shown (it premiered at the 41st Cannes Film Festival), albeit in such a truncated version. Who knows, maybe under better circumstances Zulawski would have made a masterpiece. Maybe the movie would have been more coherent and even more impactful. In any case, you can't call such a badass movie boring. Perhaps it is even too boring.