There’s a theory in psychology about why most people are disinclined to step forward and take the lead in social situations unless they’re pushed, and it’s pretty simple: if everybody did it, people would fight constantly and nothing would ever get done. As a rule, society functions better and most people are happier when they settle for being followers or just not worrying about it, but that can be difficult when parts of society still insist that a man is not a real man unless he’s telling other people what to do. Piotr (Adam Bobik) is quite a relaxed, unassuming sort of guy and happy that way, but when, one day, he stumbles into the wrong support group and meets the Leader (Miroslaw Haniszewski) he is promptly informed that his happiness is an illusion. He is not, he’s told, in control of his life. He...
- 4/22/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Raúl de la Fuente’s and Damian Nenow’s adaptation of Ryszard Kapuściński’s “Another Day of Life” isn’t the first film to combine documentary footage with animated reenactments, but it may be the first one that’ll make you wonder when the tutorial mission will begin, and you can finally start playing along for yourself.
“Another Day of Life” dramatizes three months of journalist Kapuściński’s life in Angola, in the midst of a violent Civil War. The streets were literally clogged with dead bodies, and foreign powers worked their insidious influence from the sidelines in an attempt to maintain their power in the region.
Into this “Cold War chess board” arrives Ryszard Kapuściński, a Polish reporter who usually goes by “Ricardo,” who takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s really happening in this chaotic corner of the world. His goal, he decides, is to...
“Another Day of Life” dramatizes three months of journalist Kapuściński’s life in Angola, in the midst of a violent Civil War. The streets were literally clogged with dead bodies, and foreign powers worked their insidious influence from the sidelines in an attempt to maintain their power in the region.
Into this “Cold War chess board” arrives Ryszard Kapuściński, a Polish reporter who usually goes by “Ricardo,” who takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s really happening in this chaotic corner of the world. His goal, he decides, is to...
- 9/13/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
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