Kill It and Leave This Town

Let me start with the good things-the atmosphere of the city is captured really well, and some scenes are quite nice, like the conversation between the dying mother and her visiting son, or the interaction with the shop assistant at the fish market. And for me, that's about it. First of all, this is totally not my aesthetic, but that doesn't take away my right to express an opinion about the film. The aesthetic, it is clear - is deliberately ugly and rather spooky, even scary. It reminds me of the situation when, as a child, films of this style (maybe from the same creator) appeared on TV, and I remember how much that ugliness hurt me and how much anxiety it caused. I didn't understand why it was being broadcast. Many years have passed, and my feelings haven't changed much.

The plot, despite being ultra slow, is quite chaotic. You could get confused between Janek and Mariuszek. It's also unclear why there are so many nipples. When certain attributes (in this case, nipples) appear excessively in a work, you might infer some kind of weakness or even complexes of the creator. Okay, we all have them, but do we need to know about this weakness in this movie? I don't believe that was the goal. Do I need to know that Mariusz Wilczynski has a nipple obsession when that wasn't the point of the film? Overall, the balance between disturbing and profound leans much more towards disturbing, and it's not a good experience. I understand that it wasn't supposed to be pleasant, and I understand that it was meant to provoke discomfort, but it does so in the wrong places.