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Permanent Objections is a mixture of a few different genres in cinema. It is difficult to follow and impossible to understand at first, Grzegorz Królikiewicz's frustrating work leaves us scratching our heads for the entirety of its running time. Exploring an interesting topic with a veiled depth, it gives us a message in an unconventional way which is quite brilliant in itself. It is then rather the horror of everyday life that shows its ugly face in using communist Poland and the antics of the characters in the slaughterhouse as a metaphor. Grzegorz Królikiewicz's attempts to provide a political subtext for the nastiness, but it comes across as psychological drama with artsy undertones. With "Permanent Objections" Królikiewicz manages to combine, in an apparently magmatic narrative structure, his personal conception of politics, with existential human-too-human considerations. It stimulates Freudian levels of and Franek's sanity also becomes the visual filter of the film, with its neurotic movements, the whirling shots, the expressionist close-ups, the aseptic photography of the bourgeois apartments in contrast which become the circus of mental borders. His performance is a unique feast of dedication, the wonders of acting balancing act, fearless and naturalistic. Franciszek Trzeciak portrays the severely disturbed Franek with such a frightening intensity that you almost think he is actually on his way to an asylum. Bogusz Bilewski delivers a performance that constantly exceeds the limit of overacting, which is as disturbing as it is pleasing. "Permanent Objections" is a multi-layered vision that inevitably leaves a mark and one of the most angry and nihilistic creative expressions ever seen on the screen.