hero wanted is a 2008 american thriller film directed by brian smrz in his directorial debut , and starring cuba gooding jr. , ray liotta , kim coates , and norman reedus .

the film was released on direct-to-dvd in the united states on april 29 , 2008 .

hero wanted

in a society obsessed with the ‘hero’ , vinod khanna wanted to play the bad cop .
overall , hero wanted was a surprisingly moving , well paced and exciting action movie that really deserves another look .
an alternate trailer for
hero wanted ,
unofficial . messing around with windows movie maker and such . . .
we are now onto disc two of my three latest reedus season purchases . today’s dvd of choice is hero wanted .
the film was dedicated to steven kozlowski , who coincidentally died both in film and in real life . “hero wanted” was his last movie .
pawan munjal says hero wanted to go global , but found its ambition constrained by the joint venture with honda . photo : ramesh pathania / mint
his elder brothers madan puri and chaman puri were already into films . amrish wanted to play the hero and approached several producers with his portfolio .
and , as with many weddings , he wanted to give his new bride a very special gift .
23 , 368 crore , last fiscal saw a downturn in the fortunes of hero .
by 2001 , hero honda had emerged as the leader of the two - wheeler industry .
hero has responded by pushing inventory with dealers . the credit limit for dealers was doubled to
i am surprised that i liked hero wanted as much as i did especially given that gooding jnr is an actor on my shit list but i just about moved past this hatred so i could enjoy the film .
hero wanted is not the greatest story ever told , and it certainly won ' t win any major awards , but it ' s definitely worth the price admission . with a unique approach , some decent acting and a nice chunk of action makes
hero wanted
worth picking up . the film will have a limited theatrical run , leading up to its dvd release on april 29th . sony is responsible for distributing here in the states , and my advice guys , just go full on theatrical release . it ' s worth it . and in the end , i ' m giving
hero wanted
4 out of 5 stars .
bajaj auto , hero’s arch rival , was forced to go back to the drawing board . under
big hero 6 advances lightly , but it is not superficial . [ full review in spanish ]
a tennessee homeowner held two escaped inmates wanted in the killing of two prison guards at gunpoint thursday until authorities arrived and made the arrests .
“hero wanted” wasn’t easy to swallow , because the story is not presented to you in a chronological order – in fact the first 40 minutes the plot is twisted as hell , throwing viewer back and forth , and this is anything but relaxing .
“technology , new products are certain things which are available in the market , and they ( hero ) have enough money to buy such things , ” the executive said on condition of anonymity . “but the biggest challenge is to make customers understand that hero without honda is still the hero honda of the past . ”
the main villains are played by kim coates and tommy flanagan two of my favourite members of samcro and in hero wanted . they are very good , enjoyable to watch and confirm that they both deserve much more screen time in the sons of anarchy .
the plot of hero wanted is fine . the fact that it is told through a series of out of sequence flashbacks helps to stop the film from being run of the mill although it does end with a pretty standard shootout in an old abandoned warehouse .
the hero watches worn by wesley ( james mcavoy ) and the exterminator ( konstantin khabenskiy ) in the 2008 action film wanted . after his father is murdered , unassuming nobody wesley gibson ( james mcavoy ) is invited to join a hidden society of assassins .
in every corner of poland , in fact , citizens were offered free transportation to warsaw if they wanted to be a part of the trump show .
another great addition to the cast is ben cross , a very solid actor , who most of the time suffers from bad projects . “hero wanted” sadly cannot be considered one of his better roles , yet he does have a few good scenes with gooding jr .
1 , 981 . 20—a historic high . on friday , the hero motocorp stock declined 0 . 07 % to
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he was referring to hero having sold nearly three vehicles to every one sold by bajaj auto in the last fiscal .
the cast is lead by gooding jnr a actor which i enjoy an irrational hatred of . in hero wanted he looks old and rasps his way through proceedings appearing to be in dire need of a throat lozenge . he lacks the charm required to pull off any leading role .
“one has to always give credit to brijmohanji for making what the hero group stands for at the moment , ” said a senior industry executive who didn’t want to be identified . “hero’s case was not like maruti , which had first - mover advantage and virtually no competition . in hero’s segment , the competition was going to get intense as firms such as suzuki ,
had started on together in 1984 . in the indian market , hero had come to be inextricably associated with honda ; indeed , the company even sold its products with the advertising tagline : “it’s honda in it that makes it a hero . ”
munjal’s task is to demolish the “myth” that honda is better than hero , said a top executive at a rival company .
“honda is gaining market share while they ( hero ) are losing share . i think this trend will continue , ” the
yet another straight to dvd movie that has probably been forgotten by most but it really shouldn’t be . hero wanted is one of the best roles i’ve ever seen cuba gooding , jr . do ; it has plenty of action but also has a great story and is very moving in places too .
if a different actor was cast as liam i think i would have enjoyed hero wanted a lot more . it gets a 6 . 5 / 10 . it is a solid film and deserves its place on my list of go to 90mins films which is more of a compliment that it appears .
. “it would be interesting to see the reaction to the product as hero has primarily been riding on honda’s technology so far . ”
big hero 6 is freaking fun . it ' s basically the avengers or guardians of the galaxy , but without all the dirty stuff .
political scientist kohrs believes that nkrumah ' s vision of transforming his country and the rest of africa was eventually his undoing .
if you wish to modernize a country , you have to persuade the people to go along with you . that is something which he forgot . nkrumah wanted to turn ghana into a modern state , but he wanted to do it too quickly .
“we needed a quick turnaround time to bring new models for customers in india , and we wanted to get into emerging and lucrative international markets . neither of these was possible under the joint venture . ”
war of independence hero general sean maceoin is to be the subject of a new film , which will hopefully provide a wealth of opportunities for longford creatives .
four years ago , when a director friend wanted to cast vinod in a leading role in a film he was making , i accompanied him to the actor’s sprawling apartment , kissing the hanging gardens at malabar hill .
, now senior vice - president ( marketing and sales ) at hero , and sud , was responsible for chalking out a strategy for the business without honda .
honda , meanwhile , has been taking aim at the 100cc , entry - level segment and making inroads into the rural markets—both of which have been hero’s strongest areas .
the “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted .
proofpoint’s ryan kalember said the british researcher gets “the accidental hero award of the day” . “they didn’t realise how much it probably slowed down the spread of this ransomware” .
' wonder woman ' director patty jenkins talks breaking the blockbuster glass ceiling , gal gadot and why the world needs
a new kind of hero
right now .
and what you wanted to talk about was the healing power of love ? we need a new kind of hero . it’s not easy to be a hero . you do it because of what you believe , not because of what other people deserve . i wanted to talk about the fact that we can’t defeat the evils upon us by slaying one villain . we’re facing a time where each country has such legitimate complaints against each other and this has all been going on for so long that if we’re going to come to a world of peace in the future , we have to lay down the past and become responsible heroes ourselves . often what that requires is love and peace instead of battle . that is a hugely important message to the world right now from my perspective .
hero had been practising for many years the “just in time” system of inventory management the japanese specialized in . “in hero cycles or whatever manufacturing used to happen those days , we did not have warehouses or godowns , ” sunil munjal said . “everybody used to supply what later on came to be known as just in time . . . ”
in 2010 , soon after hero realized that the partnership with honda wouldn’t last much longer , it formed two teams to work out a settlement with its the japanese firm .
pawan munjal says his ambition is to make hero a brand india can be proud of . at the top of his mind are people—employees , vendors , dealers and customers .
ghana ' s first president was ousted in a coup 50 years ago . kwame nkrumah wanted to turn his country into a modern industrialized economy and unify africa . he fell short of his ambitions but is revered to this day .
big hero 6 is still a fun , family - friendly option for a variety of filmgoers , but sadly , its strong opening suggests the finished product could have been better .
after a few supporting roles and failed attempts to bag the hero’s position , amrish puri went on to play the main villain and became one of the most menacing onscreen villain .
honda has publicly declared its ambition to overtake hero by 2015 after recent investments in capacity expansion and by entering the 100cc segment , which accounts for the lion’s share of india’s motorcycle market .
in an interview , munjal , 58 , said hero wanted to go global , but found its ambition constrained by the joint venture . “so we did sit down and said , how can we change some of these things . and in the end , the consensus was , ‘look , it’s going to be difficult and it will not be possible . ’ so , we said , ‘in that case , let’s go our own ways . ’”
will supply technology for make high - end bikes . hero has also formed a group of around 500 engineers and experts from across the world for its forthcoming r & d centre in jaipur .
“i spent my early years listening to my grandparents telling stories about the great sean maceoin and the hero that he was , ” said tom , who lived in killoe until the age of 9 .
big hero 6 , the first marvel comic book to get a walt disney makeover , is a beguiling kids movie . it is also a beauty to behold for its skillful digital animation in 3d .
analysts said the absence of new product launches by hero will hurt its profitability at a time when rivals are targeting the entry - level bike segment—the delhi - based company’s bread - and - butter market .
the sequel could be called
agents wanted
. cuba and ray go in search of agents who can get them better movies to star in , jerry maguire and goodfellas type films . its bad when they have to call back to an oscar he won 12 years ago .
a platform to make the leap from being a maker of cycles , auto components and mopeds . honda brought japanese technology to the venture ; hero’s contribution was its understanding of the market and indian consumer behaviour .
despite working for a dishonest and dissembling white house , spicer never felt like the actual bully . he was the bullied . the kid who wanted in with the big boys and did their bidding but actually wasn ' t that bad inside so never did it with much effect . indeed , he was all of us when we have a sociopath for a boss , a recent promotion , and a mortgage . all of us when just trying to get through the day when we don’t believe what we’re selling and are crippled by impostor syndrome . he was a tragic hero . someone who just wanted to be taken seriously but somehow had missed out on all the genes that would enable that . the man who shoveled elephant excrement at the big top but stuck with it because he wanted to work in show business . a modern day clown who hated people laughing at him and cried after the show . and then there was melissa mccarthy’s saturday night live rendition which drove the final nail in the coffin of his hope to ever develop any gravitas . but it was as affectionate as it was brutal .
it may seem like the most unlikely social - media platform to host a scripted superhero series , but snapchat , the evanescent mobile - messaging app , will be getting just that from at & t and its digital - media unit fullscreen in collaboration with digital - media production house astronauts wanted .
big hero 6 offers something for everyone : action , camaraderie , superheroes and villains . but mostly , baymax offers a compassionate and healing voice for those suffering , and a hug that can be felt through the screen .
questions are being asked again about whether hero will be able to sustain its supremacy in a market where overall sales of two - wheelers have grown at 2 . 9 % to 13 . 79 million units last fiscal year .
hero , for its part , is quite a distance away from its target of exporting one million motorbikes in five years of going solo . according to munjal , the company is “a little over 100 , 000 right now” .
on the high - quality scale set by the disney animated features in their latest renaissance , this one doesn ' t quite measure up . but big hero 6 is sure to entertain millions of smart kids and their escort parents .
“it’s always been a hobby to me , i’m self - taught . i ended up getting a job out of my first botnet tracker , which the company i now work for saw and contacted me about , asking if i wanted a job . i’ve been working there a year and two months now . ”
ties between hero and honda began cooling when the japanese partner decided to establish a solo presence in 1999 , initially to build scooters . the setting up of hmsi did not go down well with the munjals and they made their displeasure plain .
the nation of poland prepared a hero ' s welcome for u . s . president donald trump in advance of his wednesday night arrival in warsaw . but the polish government executed a decidedly understated ceremony to greet air force one at chopin airport .
the series will include a couple of months of build - up posts , showing behind - the - scenes activity and much else from the social - media stars . in march , the series will roll out with a dozen episodes , each 100 to 200 seconds long , over four weeks , said billy parks of astronauts wanted .
“i am convinced that between hero and competition the biggest differentiator is going to be my people , ” he said at the dealers’ convention in udaipur . “keep listening to your customer—at all times . we are what we are today because of our customers . ”
parks developed the project with uta digital media agent kendall ostrow . it’s the second collaboration between at & t and astronauts wanted . previously , they created @ summerbreak , an online reality show , and successfully used snapchat as a way to connect with audiences for the show . that new - school reality show drew 64 million views over two seasons .
in 2003 , he enlisted in the us army and began a training program to join the special forces . invoking the same principles that he now cites to justify his leaks , he said :
i wanted to fight in the iraq war because i felt like i had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression
.
“it appears that the company is finding difficulty in maintaining profitability and continuing investment in the future growth at the same time . further , the shifting of customers from its erstwhile brand ( hero honda ) to its new brand ( hero motocorp ) is requiring additional efforts / resources ( in terms of marketing and brand promotion expenses ) due to the slowdown in the domestic two - wheeler industry and intensified competition from its old partner , ” mumbai - based sunidhi institutional research wrote in a note to clients on 18 january .
a senior executive at a rival firm , who also declined to be identified , said that with hero and honda coming together , the dynamics of the two - wheeler industry changed dramatically between 1990 and 2000 , and the rest of the industry was caught napping .
tell me that motherf * * king digital copy notice on the reverse won ' t really take up that amount of space . also they shouldn ' t exactly call it a bonus feature , as if someone really wanted it for the pc or psp they ' d f * * king download it or rip it themselves anyway . stupid c * * ts .
“there is a large section of analysts who believe in our long - term strategy as we are working for the future , ” said dua . “as far as dominating the market is concerned , one should remember that in august 2006 ( the year when dua joined hero from
“we wanted to focus on the top line and hold our volumes or else we would have put ourselves under long - term pressure , ” said dua . “now the balancing act is over and top line is in our grip , we will get the bottom line right . we have started certain things two years back and the results of them will be coming in now . ”
his debut film , mann ka meet , where he played villain , had sunil dutt’s brother som dutt as the hero . vinod soon landed a role as the villain in raj khosla’s mera gaon mera desh . mahesh bhatt , son of filmmaker nanabhai bhatt , was the third assistant and also doubled up as the production manager in the film . bhatt and vinod got along well and vinod later went on to star in mahesh’s directorial venture lahoo ke do rang . like many , mahesh wanted him to be a hero . to appease vinod , he gave him a double role as father and son . according to the plot , the father , shamsher singh ( played by vinod ) works for subhash chandra bose , and nurtures a relationship with helen , fathers her child , and runs away to india . he betrays helen and marries again to have another good son , played by vinod again , this time a cop who wants to avenge his father’s murder .
hey folks , valkor here with the first look at cuba goodings jr . latest flick ; i ' m not always a fan of his work , especially some of his newer films , which are just so - so in my opinion ( i . e . daddy day camp , boat trip , or snow dogs ) . but then he ' ll turn around and do some great films like jerry macguire , boyz in the hood , outbreak , or his latest flick
hero wanted
. watch out for some spoilers . and i apologize for the lack of stills . i couldn ' t get a hold of any for the review , but i will update it when some come in .
desperate to know the woman better , liam decides to make his move . and he picks one hell of a way to do the introduction – he asks swain to enter the same bank as a robber and liam would “save” the situation , thus becoming a hero in the eyes of the woman .
his audience cheered and a small celebration followed , recalled the person , who spoke on condition that he wouldn’t be named . “we raised a toast as years of waiting were going to get over , ” he said , a reference to the geographical limits the joint venture had enforced on hero’s ambitions .
honda has a way to go before closing the gap with the market leader . in fiscal 2013 , it sold 2 . 6 million units , while hero sold 5 . 91 million units and bajaj auto sold 2 . 46 million , according to data provided by the society of indian automobile manufacturers .
vinod not just exchanged pleasantries and treated us well , but got us introduced to his son sakshi and his pet as well . he loved the role too . but what he did not love was the remuneration offered . he needed good money for his time . he valued his time and wanted to be paid well for it too . later , when he was shooting for hema malini’s film production tell me , o khuda , he wanted to be paid well and his time utilised properly . one such day at the shoot , the director mayur puri made him wait the entire day without taking a single shot . vinod was upset . hema malini was outraged . mayur puri lost his job and hema became the director . looks like vinod remained a villain for the likes of mukesh bhatt and mayur puri !
the relationship soured further in 2004 - 05 , when honda said it would manufacture and sell motorcycles under its own brand name . the understanding had been that the company would only make scooters , said a hero board member , requesting anonymity . a honda spokesperson declined to respond to questions sent by email .
and his senior management team boarded a late evening chartered flight for delhi on 10 january 2010 after attending an awards function in mumbai . on board , munjal , managing director of the company then known as hero honda motors ltd , told his team about his intention to part ways with the firm’s japanese partner .
you also must have been under a great deal of pressure , right ? a tremendous amount of pressure . even though i knew i was allowed to make a pg - 13 movie , i knew little girls were going to see it whether i wanted them to or not . the pressure to be aware of them as an audience at all times and make the movie i was tasked with making was very loud .
“this was the time when some of the board members raised concerns related to honda’s role on the board , ” said this director . “it wasn’t practical to have them on our board and then also compete with them in the same market with similar products . on the other hand , hero’s export destinations were limited . ”
the companies had an agreement to renew the equity and technical collaboration every 10 years . the renewal of the partnership in 2004 allowed them to enter each other’s product segments—honda motorcycles into the bike market and hero honda into scooters . the partners also formed a model coordination committee to minimize the scope of cannibalization with competing products .
how did this experience change you as a filmmaker ? it’s interesting to direct something so difficult but also something that you love so much . i learned a million little things about execution of this kind of movie and longevity of vision , having to hold the center because really only the director does . that’s a big task to be the person who stays super clear . the most incredible thing about it is to see gal and my true intentions come back at us the way that they are . i assumed we’d be sending our best effort out into a much more jaded world . to have such pure response come back from people talking about heroes , talking about the future , talking about love – that blows my mind . it’s so powerful that what i wanted to talk about is also what everybody wanted to talk about . that’s a beautiful , uniting experience to make a film that does that .
one day , liam saves a little girl from the burning car , and quickly becomes a local hero . despite the fact that he still carries the pain of loss with him , he feels good because he saved the little girl . days later , he sees a young woman working in a bank that reminds him of his wife .
how did donner’s film influence the choices you made with your film ? i watched it very carefully . i was fascinated by how… it was really an adult film with actors taking it seriously and also having a good time . it hit these pockets so perfectly of comedy , action , romance . that balance was an inspiration to me . i wanted to do something that felt as good to go and see and have that adult stuff going on simultaneously .
the characters themselves are a mixtures of generic bad guys , a hero with dead wife issues who comes up with a selfish plan to buy himself another 15mins ( d - list celebrities should take note – it doesn’t work ) and swain who turns out to be the only likeable character in the entire film and this is not reedus bias .
the kill switch was hardcoded into the malware in case the creator wanted to stop it spreading . this involved a very long nonsensical domain name that the malware makes a request to – just as if it was looking up any website – and if the request comes back and shows that the domain is live , the kill switch takes effect and the malware stops spreading . the domain cost $ 10 . 69 and was immediately registering thousands of connections every second .
hero wanted tells the tale of liam case , an empty shell of a garbage man who lost the love of his life when he was unable to rescue her in a car accident . months / years later ( i ' m not sure , the film doesn ' t say how much time has passed since the accident ) he rescues a young girl from a flaming car wreck , getting injured in the process and making him the town ' s local hero . he soon falls in love with a bank teller named kayla ( christa campbell ) . and one day liam gets the nerve to talk to her while she ' s on duty . but the bank is held up and kayla gets shot in the process . liam goes to check on her and in doing so he gets shot , yet he survives his injuries . kayla , however , is in a coma . so liam decides to go after the guys , killing two of them . and now the remaining crooks seek vengeance . so liam must confront the gangsters , ultimately dealing with the choices he made that started it all . but things are more than what they seem ; as the film begins to unravel , you find out that liam is not really the hero he ought to be . how the plot plays out , well if i ' d seen this film say ten years ago , i wouldn ' t buy into it . however in our present society and the crazy shit people have done , i find the plot acceptable and believable .
mahesh loved vinod creatively , while mukesh hated him financially . so when mahesh narrated a script to mukesh and said that he wanted a middle - aged man to play the lead , suggesting vinod’s name , mukesh cringed . but he had to listen to ‘bhattsaab’ . after all , vinod and mahesh shared a great bond . mukesh however , had a tough time because the said film , jurm , took almost two years in the making and then there was the dubbing issue .
“after they did choose hero as a partner , we asked them why they picked our company , ” he said . “the responses were quite interesting . they said four or five things . they said we like the way you treat your people . secondly , they said we like the way you treat your suppliers , which was in some sense a japanese thing to do . ”
“on the other hand , hero had honda , which gave them right technology , and together they were able to bring the right products to the market . so , in a way they were lucky to have honda as a partner . had government allowed 100 % ( foreign ) ownership of companies in late 1980s , in all probability honda would have entered the market on its own . ”
but he believed that the value of the internet , along with basic privacy , is being rapidly destroyed by ubiquitous surveillance .
i don ' t see myself as a hero ,
he said ,
because what i ' m doing is self - interested : i don ' t want to live in a world where there ' s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity .
hero managed to keep its entire range of bikes with itself while it convinced honda to provide it additional technology support and models even after june 2014 . the royalty payment even on new products would not exceed 5 % of net sales . it bought a lead time of three - and - a - half years for brand transition and indigenous technology , and it had the freedom to compete with honda across the globe .
bollywood today has many good - looking men happy to be the villain , but back then , there were few — like vinod khanna . one of vinod’s close friends , purushottam das kochhar , popularly known as dheeraj kumar , used to call him ‘tiger’ because of his flamboyance and often told him to try being the hero . vinod would tell dheeraj , “you guys try being the good man . leave the villain’s job to me . ”
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hero’s market share , too , has dipped . in the last fiscal year it sold 42 . 85 % of the 13 . 79 million two - wheelers sold in the country—a decline of at least three percentage points from a year ago . the biggest gainer in this period was honda , which saw its market share rise by nearly 6 percentage points to 18 . 64 % during this period to cement its place as india’s second biggest two - wheeler company , overtaking
what has angered so many muslims here and in her homeland is ms . jalal ' s assertion that the revered founding father of pakistan , the slender , eloquent mohammed ali jinnah , had feet of clay . she argues that the 1947 partitioning of india - - the event that opened the door for the creation of pakistan - - was an accident , a colossal miscalculation . what ' s more , she says that jinnah never wanted a separate muslim state ; he was only using the threat of independence as a political bargaining chip to strengthen the voice of the muslim minority in the soon - to - be sovereign india .
plot : “cuba gooding , jr . stars in this suspenseful crime thriller as a small town trash collector who stages a robbery so that he can impress a girl by being the hero , until the perfect plan takes an awful turn . after he awakens in a hospital , a man tracks down and murders the criminal that left him and a bank teller for dead during a robbery , only to end up having the slain thief’s associates come after him in retaliation . ”
but in the meantime , the economic downturn this year , coinciding with high borrowing costs and rising fuel prices , has put the brakes on hero’s growth . after it announced earnings for the quarter to 31 december , many prominent brokerages downgraded its stock rating . out of 66 brokers that track the stock , as many as 29 have a “sell” rating , 18 “hold” and only 19 a “buy” . for bajaj , 27 brokers have a “buy” rating , 27 “hold” and 13 “sell” .
liam ( gooding jr . ) is a lonely , sadsack garbage man who lost his wife in a car accident . years after that , he rescues a little girl from a car wreck and becomes a local hero . while at a bank one day , he instantly falls in love with the teller , that is until a group of thieves storm the bank . ( their getaway driver is also liam ' s work colleague , swain , played by norman reedus ) . the heist is botched when the teller gets shot in the head and winds up in a coma .
cuba gooding , jr . stars in this suspenseful crime thriller as a small town trash collector who stages a robbery so that he can impress a girl by being the hero , until the perfect plan takes an awful turn . after he awakens in a hospital , a man tracks down and murders the criminal that left him and a bank teller for dead during a robbery , only to end up having the slain thief ' s associates come after him in retaliation . also starring ray liotta ( smokin ' aces , revolver ) and tommy flanagan ( smokin ' aces , gladiator )
liam goes after the thieves in retaliation , also catching the attention of detective subcott ( liotta ) . however , it is finally revealed that liam was actually responsible for the robbery . he had seen the teller at the graveyard while visiting his wife ' s grave , and became obsessed with her . unable to work up the courage to actually talk to her , liam came up with a ( incredibly stupid ) scheme : he enlisted swain to hold up the bank while he was inside , as part of an act which would allow him to be a hero in the teller ' s eyes .
with all the heart and humor audiences expect from walt disney animation studios ,
big hero 6
is an action - packed comedy - adventure about robotics prodigy hiro hamada , who learns to harness his genius - thanks to his brilliant brother tadashi and their like - minded friends : adrenaline junkie go go tamago , neatnik wasabi , chemistry whiz honey lemon and fanboy fred . when a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of san fransokyo , hiro turns to his closest companion - a robot named baymax - and transforms the group into a band of high - tech heroes determined to solve the mystery . ( c ) disney
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which stars cuba gooding jr , ray liotta , and christa campbell . the brian smrz directed crime thriller will be available to own from the 29th april , and should retail at around $ 24 . 96 in total . the film itself will be presented in 1 . 85 : 1 anamorphic widescreen , along with an english dolby digital 5 . 1 surround track . the only extra feature will be an audio commentary with director brian smrz and actor cuba gooding jr , and a digital copy of the film .
why did those go straight to dvd ? oh . . . . . that ' s right . it has two stars that don ' t give a sh * * about their careers anymore .
you know your career ' s in a tailspin when they offer you a role in a movie with cuba gooding jr . and then later , you find out that cuba got top billing . . .
biggest thing cuba ' s done is play a rather left to hang / nothing came of it sub - plot character in
american gangster
. although as far as dtv flicks go the weird but effective and vastly underrated
shadow boxer
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at the end credits cuba gooding jr . is credited as
liam chase
when his name in the film is in fact
liam case
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] i really wish we hadn ' t start here . it ' s too easy to get the wrong idea about me .
: that ' s dawn , my wife . a car accident ended our happiness , leaving me with an empty home , and an empty life .
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swain in turn brought in his trigger - happy robber friends for the job , since he actually needed the money to realize his dreams of going to florida . after the heist went wrong , liam went after the thieves as a means of redemption . he kills two of them before the others come after him . they kidnap the little girl liam had rescued in the car wreck and hold her hostage in an abandoned factory . in the ensuing shootout , the robbers , swain , and a whole bunch of cops get killed , and after a standoff involving subcott and the little girl , a badly injured liam escapes and goes to the hospital just as the teller wakes up from the coma and warmly recognizes him .
liam is ultimately arrested , but the ending suggests that he and the teller actually might have a future together when she visits him in prison .
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in the first half of the movie i wasn’t exactly sure what was going on but that’s kind of the idea . it will all make sense by the end and the script is extremely clever and unpredictable . chad and evan law ( 6 bullets ) create action movies with heart and i see them both having a bright future .
the cast and acting are all top notch but my two favourite performances come from tommy flannigan , ( a fellow scot which may have something to do with it ) and sammi hanratty who plays the little girl marley . flannigan is always a scary bad guy , but it’s great to see him have such a major role in this film and i’d love to see him in more movies… . and possibly interview him too .
hanratty is living proof that not all children in movies have to be annoying . she gives one of the most believable and honest performances i think i’ve seen a child actor give since the sixth sense .
ray liotta is also fantastic but he always is , so that isn’t much of a stretch . kim coates has a large role and i’ve always been a huge fan of his ; maybe one day he’ll play someone who isn’t utterly terrifying…
brian smrz’s direction really is excellent too , but there is one scene which sticks out the most . during the climactic shoot out in the old warehouse , there is some mind boggling camera work which i don’t know how they achieved it but it really stood out to me .
the music score by kenneth burgomaster really adds to the emotional scenes of the film and in the first few minutes i already knew i loved it . i wish it was commercially available , because i must own it .
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liam case ( cuba gooding jr ) loses his wife in an ugly car accident . unable to free her from the drowning car he suffers watching her die . years later , bitter liam is working as a garbage man , along with his friend swain ( norman reedus ) .
swain of course isn’t doing this alone , bringing a bunch of friends with him . liam has no idea , so when the wild bunch enters the bank – as usual – things go wrong . in this case , the woman liam likes so much gets accidentally shot .
liam , wounded himself , enraged , vows revenge on the whole gang . two cops ( ray liotta , todd jensen ) investigating the case , looking for clues that would lead them to liam .
the budget for this film was reportedly only $ 7 million , and yet it has quite a cast . ray liotta and cuba gooding jr are no longer considered a - list actors by major studios , yet it doesn’t mean they have lost their talent completely .


dekalog : nine ( polish : dekalog , dziewięć ) is the ninth part of the television series dekalog by polish director krzysztof kieślowski , connected to the ninth imperative of the ten commandments : " thou shalt not covet thy neighbor 's wife " .

a man who has become impotent ( piotr machalica ) discovers that his wife ( ewa błaszczyk ) has a lover .

( a minor character in this film , a young singer with a heart condition , inspired kieślowski 's and piesiewicz 's next film , the double life of véronique . )

dekalog : nine

for info on the entire dekalog series , including a short film about love & a short film about killing—plus special dekalog trivia ! —click here .
the film sufi : dekalog 9 : “thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife . ”
dekalog : nine roman and hanka have a loving marriage , but his impotence has led to her having an affair . the unbearable situation drives roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally , testing their love and his own will to live .
dekalog : nine is ultimately about faith and trust , a commitment to the sanctity of marriage , even when forces beyond one’s control threaten to disrupt life’s best laid plans . how kieslowski deals with everything so effortlessly is a marvel… and infinitely enlightening .
together with ‘dekalog : one’ , this is the finest episode of the series dealing with ( extra ) marital affairs between a couple with genuine emotions and unparalleled sensitivity to its characters ~ 5 * / a + [ dir . krzysztof kieslowski | 1988 | poland | drama | 60 mins | not rated ] dekalog : nine / © telewizja polska s . a . # dekalog # decalogue # krzysztofkieslowski # kieslowski # criterioncollection # bluray # affair # marriage # emotion # sensitivity # poland
together with the first episode , this represents the very summit of ‘dekalog ' , a series with many peaks . shot by piotr sobocinski , who photographed kieslowski ' s later three colours : red ( 1994 ) , dekalog : nine is a masterful drama dealing with the ( extra ) marital affairs of a couple , roman ( piotr machalica ) and hanka ( ewa blaszczyk ) .
kieślowski , krzysztof , and krzysztof piesiewicz , dekalog , in iskusstvo kino ( moscow ) , march - december 1993 .
“dekalog” opens at the ifc center in new york on september 2nd , at cinefamily in los angeles on september 17th , and will be followed by a national roll out . the criterion collection will release “dekalog” on blu - ray and dvd release on september 27th . don’t sleep on this one .
in dekalog : nine , any eroticism is left out ( after all , this was made for polish television ) , with kieslowski focusing on his characters instead . he gives roman and hanka unparalleled sensitivity , allowing them to develop emotionally through the course of the hour , with the intricate plotting giving us a sense of the psychological ambiguity that would besiege them as they deal with their set of marital issues .
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by krzysztof kieslowsky dekalog is a 1988 polish television drama series directed by krzysztof kieslowsky . it consists of ten one - hour films , each of which represents one of the ten commandments and explores possible meanings of the commandment —often ambiguous or contradictory—within a fictional story set in modern poland . music by zbignew preisner
oh , there’s one other connecting thread . all but two of the 10 films feature a silent young man ( artur barcís ) who appears in different guises—student , hospital orderly , homeless dude—and just stares balefully in the direction of that film’s protagonist , almost always at some decisive moment . this device risks coming across as a bit precious , but it provides a welcome sense of mystery to some of the more straightforward entries ( notably dekalog eight and dekalog nine ) and strengthens the feeling of continuity . ( even though the 10 films employ nine different cinematographers , they share the same utilitarian look ; only the two shot by the great piotr sobocinski , who’d be oscar - nominated a few years later for his work on red , stand out visually . ) truly , dekalog is a single grand entity , greater than the sum of its sometimes stupendous parts . think of it as the televisual and / or cinematic equivalent of joyce’s dubliners , providing a monumental , probing yet playful snapshot of warsaw in the late 1980s . then hunker down and burrow in .
originally made for polish television , dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late - communist poland , whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human . the series’ ten hour - long films draw from the ten commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure , and grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life , death , love , hate , truth , and the passage of time . shot by nine different cinematographers , written alongside longtime collaborator krzysztof piesiewicz , with stirring music by zbigniew preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike , dekalog arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives .
verdict : together with ‘dekalog : one’ , this is the finest episode of the series dealing with ( extra ) marital affairs between a couple with genuine emotions and unparalleled sensitivity to its characters .
in honor of janus films’ new restoration of krzysztof kieślowski’s dekalog , now playing in limited release , fandor keyframe shared this video essay about the ten hour - long films bound together by the ten commandments .
in honor of janus films ’ new restoration of krzysztof kieślowski’s dekalog , now playing in limited release , fandor keyframe shared this video essay about the ten hour - long films bound together by the ten commandments . originally made for polish television in 1988 , the ten films focus on the residents of a housing complex in late - communist warsaw , poland . their lives intertwine as they face moral , ethical , and emotional dilemmas . though the series was shot by nine different cinematographers , as the above essay shows , the overall vision was unified .
originally made for polish television in 1988 , the ten films focus on the residents of a housing complex in late - communist warsaw , poland . their lives intertwine as they face moral , ethical , and emotional dilemmas . though the series was shot by nine different cinematographers , as the above essay shows , the overall vision was unified .
this new digital transfer of dekalog was sourced from the 35mm original camera negatives provided by telewizja polska and stored at filmoteka narodow . when possible , the restoration of each episode was supervised and approved by its respective cinematographer .
rather than leading the viewer to think and wrestle with complex moral issues , this is like a little morality play ; in which selfish actions produce great pain and suffering amongst those closest to them . dekalog nine , is far from being the best of the series , it lacks the complexity and intrigue of the best of the works . it is still memorable in its own way though , because of the rawness of the human tragedy which underlies it . another wonderful thing in this episode is the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack music by zbigniew preisner , which seems to perfectly amplify the emotional darkness of the characters .
polish music icon zbigniew preisner , who first worked with the dekalog director on 1985’s no end and went on to contribute to all of his subsequent films . here , we present a selected playlist of preisner’s most memorable work for kieślowski .
just as everyone’s personal ranking of , say , the coen brothers’ movies will be wildly different , so will everyone’s opinion regarding which dekalog films are the standouts . not a single one is bad , though , and some quick poking around suggests that just about everybody considers at least four or five of them superb , even if folks don’t always agree on which four or five . dekalog six , about a young man who becomes voyeuristically obsessed with an older neighbor and inspires her obsession with him in turn , ranks among the greatest studies of toxic romance ever made . ( the feature - length expansion , a short film about love , is also terrific , but has a radically different and much weaker ending . ) dekalog five juxtaposes a truly brutal murder and the murderer’s subsequent execution , to equally nauseating effect . the most tender is dekalog three , in which a woman corrals a married ex - lover into helping her find her missing husband on christmas eve ; the most disturbing and thought - provoking is dekalog four , centered around a letter written by a dying mother that’s discovered by her adult daughter two decades later . the series even concludes with a ( jet - black ) comedy , as if to counterbalance the general intensity .
there are few cinematic experiences that you’ll have in your lifetime that will equal krzysztof kieslowski ‘s “ dekalog . ” it’s ten hours of some of the finest filmmaking you’ll ever see , and with its return to the big screen , it’s not to be missed .
dekalog : ten jerzy and artur’s father dies , leaving behind a valuable stamp collection , which , they discover , is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness . the more involved the brothers get in their father’s world , the more dire and comical their situation becomes .
dekalog : six a teenage postal worker , tomek , routinely spies on his older neighbor magda , a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his . as their private worlds merge , fascination turns to obsession , and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred .
dekalog : seven as a high school student , majka bore a child , ania , whom majka’s mother , ewa , has been raising as her own . now that majka is ready for motherhood , ewa refuses to let go , leading majka to kidnap her own daughter , with unexpected emotional consequences .
dekalog : one krzysztof , a semantics professor and computer hobbyist , is raising his young son , paweł , to look to science for answers , while irena , paweł’s aunt , lives a life rooted in faith . over the course of one day , both adults are forced to question their belief systems .
dekalog : four a father and daughter , michal and anka , have a unique intimacy , that the college - aged anka is beginning to feel conflicted about . when she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother , it seems to justify her attraction to michal , who may not in fact be her father .
dekalog : eight zofia , a professor of ethics , is visited by elzbieta , an american researching the fate of jews who survived world war ii . a daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation , and zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of elzbieta’s life .
dekalog : five jacek , an angry drifter , murders a taxi driver , brutally and without motive . his case is assigned to piotr , an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty , and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for piotr the injustice of killing of any kind .
a dekalog pass , good for admission to any screening of each of the five , paired hour - long parts plus a screening of each of the two a short film about features , is available for $ 55 ( $ 35 for ifc center members ) online or at the box office . just select the appropriate ticket price when purchasing .
dekalog : two dorota is in love with two men : her gravely ill husband , andrzej , and a fellow musician who is the father of her unborn child . andrzej’s doctor , himself no stranger to loss , is dorota’s downstairs neighbor ; she implores him to swear to a prognosis for her husband , and in doing so puts a very serious decision into his hands .
dekalog : three it’s christmas eve , and ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover janusz , a family man , by making him believe her husband has gone missing . during this night of recklessness and lies , the pair grapple with choices made three years ago , when their affair was discovered , and with the value of their present lives .
spread across ten chapters , “dekalog” tackles the ten commandants in a series of loosely connected stories all set around the same housing complex in warsaw . the result is a powerful look at humanity in all its complexity , from the same director who brought you the “three colors” trilogy and “ the double life of veronique . ” here’s the synopsis of the anthology plus a breakdown of each episode :
none of these films is a simple demonstration of black and white moral issues . “decalogue five” is about a murderer who seems completely amoral . to understand him is not to forgive him . but the story also focuses on his defense attorney , a young man trying his first case and passionately opposed to the death penalty . “decalogue nine” is about a man who discovers his wife is having an affair . he hides himself to spy on them , and eavesdrops as she breaks up forever with her lover - - and then discovers the husband in hiding . she did the wrong thing ( adultery ) and the right one ( ending it ) ; his spying was a violation of her trust - - and then there is an outcome where pure chance almost leads to a death , which was avoidable if either had been more honest .
in the late 1980s , the celebrated polish filmmaker , krzysztof kieślowski , set out to make ten short interlinked films . the films all shared a common location , a giant monoform set of flats in warsaw , which create a drab and deadening canvass for each piece . the films all share a common form , in that they are all dramas built around the human relationships in the flats . the films sometimes even overlap , with characters and scenes from one film appearing as extras or backdrops in others . most significantly though , the films are each loosely connected to one of the biblical ten commandments :
the dekalog
. having previously admired kieślowski ' s tricolore series , i was intrigued to learn that he had previously attempted something with its roots in the bible .
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. roman , after discovering his impotence , urges his wife hanka to take a lover . she reluctantly complies , and roman , despite his earlier words , becomes obsessively jealous . spying on her , he learns of her affair , and vows to kill himself - not knowing that hanka was in fact breaking off the relationship . . .
surgeon reacts to a diagnosis of impotence as if it were a terminal illness , urging his wife to take a lover and plunging into suicidal depression . his wife , however , is willing to live with the diagnosis and swears to a love above and beyond sex , which he rejects , at first ; the movie is about his struggling with and final acceptance of this platonic ideal . jealousy leads him to spy on and covet his own wife , ergo the commandment . but this only humiliates him further . in a parallel , somewhat superfluous plot , a young female patient asks his advice about a risky operation which would enable her to sing , her life ' s dream . both face the same dilemma of whether or not to accept a physical limitation which deprives them of their life ' s passion . unlike him , the young woman is willing to live with her disease and forego singing . he changes her mind . i thought the surgeon and the film , both , over - reacted to the diagnosis , assigned too much weight to it . the melodramatic lack of perspective makes the movie as moribund as its subject matter . of course , it ' s amply color coded ; the passing stranger in white rides by again ; and , again , there ' s lapse of credibility : the surgeon shares a cigarette with the patient who is supposed to have a disease so debilitating as to prevent her from singing - - this makes no sense . but , once again , k . knows how to make the final scene count , canceling earlier shortcomings , at least for a moment . overwrought arty soap opera . by this stage of the series one is right to be more than a little weary and wary of having the same heart strings tugged on to play the same melancholy tune .
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roman and hanka have a loving marriage , but his impotence has led to her having an affair . the unbearable situation drives roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally , testing their love and his own will to live . ( 60 minutes )
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: roman and hanka have a loving marriage , but his impotence has led to her having an affair . the unbearable situation drives roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally , testing their love and his own will to live .
: jerzy and artur’s father dies , leaving behind a valuable stamp collection , which , they discover , is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness . the more involved the brothers get in their father’s world , the more dire and comical their situation becomes .
roman and hanka have a loving marriage , but his impotence has led to her having an affair . the unbearable situation drives roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally , testing their love and his own will to live .
jerzy and artur’s father dies , leaving behind a valuable stamp collection , which , they discover , is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness . the more involved the brothers get in their father’s world , the more dire and comical their situation becomes .
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a drama about marriage as an optimum laboratory for the training of the heart .
krzysztof kieslowski ' s treatment of the ninth commandment ,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbor ' s house ,
focuses on the itch we all have for something more , better , or different . being content with what we have takes patience , perseverance , and gratitude whether we are talking about our relationships , work , or possessions .
roman ( piotr machalica ) , a surgeon , goes to a doctor and learns that he is impotent . deeply upset , he returns home to his beautiful wife hanka ( ewa blaszczyk ) of ten years . they have no children . when roman tells her that his sexual dysfunction is permanent , she responds ,
love is in one ' s heart not between one ' s legs .
nevertheless , he tells her she should take a lover .
unbeknown to roman , hanka is already having an affair with mariusz ( jan jankowski ) , a physics student . increasingly restless , roman starts spying on his wife by bugging the phone and following her around . learning that hanka and her lover meet at her mother ' s place , he waits outside when he knows they are making love . but hanka is already planning to break off the affair , even though mariusz wants to marry her . she believes that her marriage can be saved by adopting a child .
a subplot in this drama deals with roman ' s treatment of a young woman with a heart condition ; she has a beautiful voice but will be unable to sing very passionate music unless she has her heart fixed . kieslowski wants us to see the many angles to the health of a heart . how much can it take ? in roman and hanka ' s case , a lot . sex turns out not to be the determining factor in the future of their marriage .
initially roman ' s problem proves to be so devastating that both he and hanka are unable to be honest emotionally with each other . they lose heart , to put it simply , by coveting something beyond their love relationship . in the end , through several traumatic incidents , roman and hanka realize that they must make a fresh commitment to each other . marriage , you see , is an optimum laboratory for the training of the heart in gentleness , compassion , forgiveness , and personal renewal .
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) , but was not . in this story roman , a successful , thirty - something heart surgeon , visits a colleague friend and learns that his own sexual dysfunction problems are permanent and incurable . he has a beautiful wife , hanka , and now must come to terms with how , or whether , he is going to live the rest of his life with her .
roman returns to his wife and hesitantly , but stoically , tells her the grim news . he dolefully offers to do the honorable thing : if she chooses to stay with him , she can start seeing other men . hanka swears by her love for roman , but finds the conversation about sex a bit too explicit - - love for her is more than just those kinds of physical aspects .
nevertheless roman’s new feelings of inadequacy start eating away at him . he begins to watch his wife’s habits a bit more than he used to . he notices an unusual notebook belonging to some physics student in the glove compartment of his car . he constructs an electronic device to secretly tap his wife’s phone conversations . and finally , he makes copies of the keys to his mother - in - law’s apartment , which is currently vacant while his mother - in - law is away . he suspects that his wife is having trysts with the physics graduate student there .
after awhile all of romans’ jealous suspicions are confirmed . his wife has a lover , and this has been going on for some time , even before his medical problems . the physics student lover , mariusz , is shown to be seriously in love with hanka . but hanka is now ov
ercome with feelings of concern for her troubled husband and feeling guilty about the affair .
hanka’s moral crisis concerns how she should manage her love life and how honest she should be with her husband about what has happened . roman’s crisis concerns his self - image as a man . he wants to avoid being jealous about something that he cannot provide for his wife , but at the same time he cannot hold himself back from finding out the horrible details .
there is a side story in the film that reflects on roman’s situation . a young patient , ola , is faced with a potentially risky operation to rectify a heart condition . if she doesn’t have the operation , she will have to abandon her promising career as a classical singer . she asks dr . roman what she should do , and he tells her that these operations are usually only performed as a last resort . she nods and says that she only wants to live , not risk death just to acquire fame as an opera singer . roman then ruefully reflects on the value of a diminished life that cannot reach fulfilment . ( later on in the story , ola is talked into going ahead with the operation , but , she says thoughtfully to roman , she will then become “someone else” )
break off her affair with mariusz , but it’s a little late : roman has spied on her and knows everything . he is shattered by the explicitness of what he sees , and his feelings of hopelessness and oblivion generate thoughts of suicide .
when hanka faces up to everything and tries to reconcile with roman , she humbly begs forgiveness and agrees that they should go ahead and adopt a child ( thereby affirming concretely that their marriage is forever ) . at this point , we might expect that the story has reached its dramatic conclusion , but not quite .
roman , not surprisingly , has not really recovered from his moribund thoughts and insists that they need some time apart in order for him to regain himself . hanka suggests that he might travel somewhere , but roman says that he cannot bear to be away and think about leaving his wife alone in the same town with “that physicist” , so it is agreed that hanka will go on a ski holiday . it turns out , however , that mariusz , “that physicist” , hasn’t given u
p on his relationship with hanka and heads out to the same ski resort to meet her . and roman’s suicidal thoughts haven’t disappeared , either . this leads to a dramatic conclusion of the film that is one of the most moving in the
a further comment is in order concerning the camera work of piotr sobocinski in this film . it is masterfully carried out with all sorts of inventive and evocative shots that highlight the dramatic elements of the storytelling . this is one of the key features that make this episode stand out .
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plot : roman and hanka have a loving marriage , but his impotence has led to her having an affair . the unbearable situation drives roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally , testing their love and his own will to live . ( from the criterion collection )
awards : won fipresci prize & children and cinema award ( venice ) . official selection ( cannes ) .
roman is impotent and suggests to hanka that she should find another lover to satisfy her sexually . she has been discreetly dating mariusz ( jan jankowski ) , a younger physics student who becomes obsessed with her . roman , plagued by obsession himself—that of extreme jealousy—begins to spy on them .
this sounds like a simple setup of a plot , one that would normally kick - start one of those saucy erotic thrillers about infidelity , a subgenre exemplified by such films as louis malle’s damage ( 1992 ) , and adrian lyne’s twin pairs fatal attraction ( 1987 ) and unfaithful ( 2002 ) , for example .
there’s clever use of phallic symbolism , particularly a shot where roman fills up his car’s fuel tank , momentarily reminding him of his impotence . there are also some great visual motifs that kieslowski uses repeatedly to accentuate the emotional state of his character . roman’s faulty car glovebox is an example .
what makes this episode so essential a viewing is kieslowski’s astute handling of its main theme of infidelity with complementary ideas of love and sex , of parenthood and adoption , and most crucially , of not wanting to be wronged . there are strong depictions of guilt , especially in the final act , which is a masterclass in building tension through characterisation vis - à - vis plotting , and expressed succinctly without dramatic manipulation through the technique of time - sensitive cross - cutting .
production : polish television , tor studios ; colour , 35mm ; running time : 10 films 53–57 minutes each . released 1989 . decalogue 5 and decalogue 6 released theatrically in 1989 as a short film about killing and a short film about love . filmed on location in warsaw , 1988 .
producer : ryszard chutkowski ; screenplay : krzysztof kieślowski , krzysztof piesiewicz ; photography : wieslaw zdort ( decalogue 1 ) , edward klosinski ( 2 ) , piotr sobocinski ( 3 , 9 ) , krzysztof pakulski ( 4 ) , slawomir idziak ( 5 ) , witold adamek ( 6 ) , dariusz kuc ( 7 ) , anrzej jaroszewicz ( 8 ) , jacek blawut ( 10 ) ; editor : ewa smal ; sound : malgorzata jaworska ( 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 ) , nikodem wolk - laniewski ( 3 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 10 ) , wieslawa demblinska ( 8 ) ; production designer : halina dobrowolska ; music : zbigniew preisner .
cast : 1 : henryk baranowski ( krzysztof ) , wojciech klata ( pawel ) , maja komorowska ( irena ) . 2 : krystyna janda ( dorota ) , alexander bardini ( consultant ) , olgierd lukaszewicz ( anrzej ) . 3 : daniel olbrychski ( janusz ) , maria pakulnis ( ewa ) . 4 : adrianna biedrzynska ( anka ) , janusz gajos ( michal ) . 5 : miroslaw baka ( jacek ) , krzysztof globisz ( piotr ) . 6 : grazyna szapolowska ( magda ) , olaf lubaszenko ( tomek ) . 7 : anna polony ( ewa ) , maja barelkowska ( majka ) . 8 : maria koscialkowska ( zofia ) , teresa marczewska ( elzbieta ) . 9 : ewa blaszczyk ( hanka ) , piotr machalica ( roman ) . 10 : jerzy stuhr ( jerzy ) , zbigniew zamachowski ( arthur ) .
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there are artists who are late bloomers , who must try out various timbres before they find their own voice . it took antonioni over ten years and a dozen films , both fiction and documentary , to make il grido , his first truly
antonionian
film . it took kieślowski over ten years and two dozen films , both fiction and documentary , to make decalogue , which marks both the climax of a long search and a dramatic shift in direction and quality . that the seed was there is clear in the 1981 feature blind chance , which sketches out three possible futures for a man who , like a tabula rasa , is open to either one . the film shows how the filmmaker sensed what was soon to become his territory in art , but didn ' t yet have the formal means to make that territory his own . that decalogue changed kieślowski ' s life is evident in the way that all his following films— the double life of veronique , blue , white and red —stem from decalogue , developing the earlier work ' s motifs and sharpening its filmic finesse .
from decalogue on , kieślowski focused exclusively on the invisible and how it can be seen . he himself could show it with an incomparable grace : the mysterious links that tie us all together ; the signs and omens that nature , uselessly , sends our way ; the doom , materialized in things and machines ; the sadness of the pond and the clouds . in this world , an ink - spill prophesies trouble , and when somebody dies , holy water freezes in the church . this kind of cinema dangerously balances between the profound and the pretentious . but if kieślowski slipped into pretentiousness in the occasionally ponderous blue , decalogue has a luminosity of milk , left ( in decalogue 1 ) out in the cold overnight and turned into white ice . its light breaks the glass of the gratuitous bottle .
decalogue ' s world—the world of a grim warsaw housing development where all the stories originate—is not a collection of entities and events , but a dense substance in which everything is connected with everything . the focus is shifted from things to what lies between them . this philosophy puts kieślowski into a glorious chain of artists—dreyer , bresson , iosseliani ( the line continues with atom egoyan and wong kar - wai ) —and explains why his preoccupation with cycles may not be so odd after all . as people are linked in his films , so are the films themselves . the heroine of blue shows up in the courtroom of white and then , along with the principals of white , in the coda of red . a fictitious dutch renaissance composer van den budelmayer from red originates in decalogue 9 , as does white ' s tragi - comic theme of male impotence . the brothers from decalogue 10 don ' t want to stay home ; they spill into the story of white . a model auteur , kieślowski in all his later years shot one film ; perhaps his decision to stop , which he made in 1994 after completing the three colors trilogy , grew out of a realization that his film had come to an end . ( it has been reported that kieślowski was planning another project at the time of his death . )
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and the three colors trilogy is being revived in austin as well . updated through 10 / 1 .
, created a miniseries consisting of 10 hour - long films , each of which riffs on one of the ten commandments . the result ranks among the greatest achievements in television history—but it also produced two feature films , expanded from two of the episodes . one of them ,
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you marvel at the precision of its filmmaking even as it spreads an atmosphere of moral unease . each episode takes place , at least partly , in a massive warsaw apartment complex . and while individual flats vary from luxurious to monk - like , the overall mood is bleak , verging on despair . kieslowski would become something of an aesthete and a mannerist in later years… , but in
, maybe due to its tv origins , his camera is mostly still and close , though the films don ' t lack poetry . the tales start quietly but gather complexity , ambiguity , and emotional force as they proceed . they pose ethical conundrums and present simple , dramatic scenarios ; by the end of each installment , we ' re faced not with answers , or even hints of answers , but with the irreducible , unresolvable messiness of life .
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episodes are uniquely aestheticized , befitting their own distinct thematic fixations ; kieslowski even went so far as to employ a different director of cinematography for almost every episode . one of the all - time great wielders of color , the filmmaker uses subtle color tints to evoke specific moods . the icy blues that connote a cold winter in episode one , for example , are offset by the sickly , unnatural greens of the computer screens that fill the professor’s apartment . episode three , set on christmas , finds clever ways to incorporate festive reds , using car taillights and flashing police warnings to shade the frame . episode six , given its extensive fixation on voyeurism , is appropriately cloaked in shadow , and much of its shots are composed at a distance , peering through barriers like windows and doorframes to add to the sense that the characters are under constant surveillance .
, in the only blurb he ever provided , wrote , ' i am always reluctant to single out some particular feature of the work of a major filmmaker because it tends inevitably to simplify and reduce the work . '
but kieslowski and piesiewicz , kubrick argued ,
have the very rare ability to
over time he struck me as alternately witty , colorful , relaxed , charming , closed off and intense .
introduces a conversation with kieslowski
culled from a series of interviews with the filmmaker dating from september 1989 to november 1994 , done either individually by zbigniew banas , myself or the two of us in collaboration . they were done in cannes , toronto and chicago .
' s 2000 review :
there is a young man who appears in eight of [ the episodes ] , a solemn onlooker who never says anything but sometimes makes sad eye contact . i thought perhaps he represented christ , but kieslowski , in an essay about the series , says , ' i don’t know who he is ; just a guy who comes and watches us , our lives . he’s not very pleased with us . ' directors are notorious for not pinning down the meanings of their images . i like the theory of annette insdorf , in her valuable book about
, who are ' pure gaze ' —able to ' record human folly and suffering but unable to alter the course of the lives they witness . '
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the truth is that these characters are hopeless , which is a good deal more disquieting .
trilogy , one film each thursday , before rolling out the decalog . these
are some of the most visually arresting films of contemporary cinema ,
writes afs head of film & creative media
’s highest endorsement in spite of its many iniquities—it’s almost certainly the one most dense with life . and yet , for a biblically - scaled film cycle so rich with irony that it seems to be chipping off the walls of the brutalist apartment complex where most of it takes place , perhaps the greatest irony of them all is that
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perpetually confounded , these ordinary folk inhabit a film masterpiece of urgent philosophical inquiry that asks the eternal question , how shall we live ? and as every storyteller knows , we are never messier , funnier or more poignant than when we are trying to be good .
, which brought a similar spirit of religious and existential inquiry to a different narrative universe , using the story of a new jersey mob boss as a way to explore american family life and the decaying social contract of the 21st century .
was much more than a series of short movies accidentally jammed into television and more than a peculiar cultural artifact of late communism . it was the beginning of a process that set television free .
served as one of krzysztof kieslowski’s closest collaborators—he worked on all of the director ' s films until kieslowski’s death in 1996 , with several of their collaborations actually revolving around the world of music .
, who composed the spare , sometimes otherworldly score . his other collaborations with kieslowski include the radiant
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the father , a professor , lectures a class of students on the estranged intimacy of a foreign language : how do you get to know what’s hidden beneath history , politics , culture , and the soul of a language that isn’t your own even if you know it well ? the professor singles out technology to sort the obstacle of translation—an unfortunate choice . in the
, kieslowski strips his native being down to a universal visual language , and with the help of collaboration from his peers , unpacks the plethora of complexities hidden beneath and within all that is human in this ferocious masterpiece . in short , ditch formula and equation , and just rip through to the meat no matter the means .
for criterion , “poles’ subjection to an increasingly oppressive , dysfunctional materiality ironically generated an immaterial place at which they met : the discourse of humble dreams… . metaphysics and revolution percolate through each other as people grasp their status as ghosts in the machine , incompatible with it . if such everyday suffering affects first the working - class protagonists of kieslowski’s earliest films , in
it extends to other social strata , such as doctors , rock stars , and university professors , indicating its pervasiveness in society . ”
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the episode opens with a punk singer belting out a song poking fun at the ten commandments . the vocalist (
) reunites with his conservative brother over the death of their father when they discover that he’s left them a priceless stamp collection . the plot turns on a con game but kieslowski centers the film on the brothers’ emotional journey through sacrifice , suspicion , and loss until , when all looks bleakest , they find within themselves a sense of hope and family connection . kieslowski leaves us with humor and ends the series on a quiet , modest , lovely grace note endowed with hope .
with anything by kieslowski , engagement is more important than understanding ,
writes andrew welch for movie mezzanine .
most of us would prefer it the other way around , but the decalogue challenges us switch them .
by kieslowski represents the commandment , “thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife . ” unlike many of the previous episodes , this episode deals with this specific commandment first hand . kieslowski used a married couple as the main characters , but brought in a few outside characters to represent the coveting which was present throughout this film . at the beginning of the film , the main character roman discovers he is impotent . he and his wife , hanka , talk about this issue , and he realizes that his wife should take on an outside lover to satisfy her sexual needs . however , she rebukes that idea , remaining faithful to roman . throughout the film , roman discovers that hanka has actually
on a secret lover . although roman wished that for her in the beginning , he becomes jealous and hurt from this affair . hanka eventually breaks off the affair , but roman was not aware of this , and consequently made an attempt at suicide . after surviving that attempt , he learns that hanka truly broke off the affair and realizes her love for him .
throughout the film there are many visual tropes and cinematic devices that add to the suspense and meaning of the film . first , there is one visual trope of a man riding a bike towards the beginning of the episode . during one scene , after roman learns he is impotent , he drives off the road due to his frustration with the issue . the man on the bike rides by looking at roman , yet continues to walk away . during another scene towards the end of the movie , roman drives his bike off a cliff , concluding his attempt at suicide . the camera shows roman lying there on the ground unconscious . then it shows the
same man we saw before , riding his bike . he looked down at roman , yet continued to ride by . this man on the bike can symbolize many things . he can represent the undying issue at hand that simply will not go away ( roman’s impotency ) ; he can represent the fact that roman just has to let go of this issue and “ride away” or get over his problems ; or he could simply represent the constant intruding of the man that is interfering roman and hanka’s relationship ( the man that hanka is having an affair with ) . regardless of the meaning , kieslowski used this man on the bike to represent a visual trope throughout this particular episode .
another visual trope that occurs many times throughout the film is the glove box in roman’s car . many times , when the scene is depicting a serious contemplative moment , the glove box pops
. there were also scenes where the glove box would not shut after a few attempts at shutting it . this is a visual trope because it not only occurs during those specific moments throughout the film , but also because it is trying to convey an important message . this message was not particularly clear , but it was clear that it was meant to be portrayed as a symbol .
also throughout the film were many cases of cinematic devices that added to the message of the film . kieslowski used specific camera work in order to carry out and highlight
scenes that are important for the dramatic story . for example , one scene depicts a conversation between roman and hanka . during the scene , the camera is focused on hanka’s face , and the viewer can see roman’s blurry back . however , the camera is also focused on a mirror directly behind hanka which allows to viewer to see roman’s face reflected through the mirror . this specific cinematic device not only allows the viewer to see both faces throughout the conversation , but it allows us to recognize their facial expressions as they carry out their conversation . this is important to the film because it contributes to the emotional effect it has on the characters , in turn pulling the viewers closer to the plot and message of the film .