{"id":135623,"date":"2013-11-03T21:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T04:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=135623"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T04:35:01","slug":"aftermath-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/11\/03\/aftermath-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AFTERMATH (Poklosie) MOVIE REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Menemsha Films<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on RottenTomatoes.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screenwriter: Wladyslaw Pasikowski<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cast: Marcej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Zuzana Fialov\u00e1, Andrzej Mastalerz, Zbigniew Zamachowski<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screened at: Critics\u2019 screener, NYC, 11\/3\/13<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opens: November 1, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One mystery that has remains resolved by historians, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and thinking people everywhere is this: why is it that on the whole, some nations acts morally and some do not? World War II provides an excellent example. As the Nazis conquered one state after another, the people under German occupation resisted and collaborated to different degrees. The Danes acted well: when word got out that the Jews would be rounded up, Danes got thousands of them together and enabled them to escape to neutral Sweden. Albanians were great: they \u201cconverted\u201d Jews to Islam and dressed them as shepherds: as a result, Albania had more Jews after the Holocaust than before. On the other hand, France acted largely in an immoral way, the gendarmes helping to round up the Jews for deportation to the camps. While many Polish people risked their lives by hiding Jews, at least one incident in their history stands out as the most atrocious. In 1941 in the village of Jebwabne (see the book Neighbors by Jan Gross), the Catholic population did not turn Jews over to Germans, but assured the Nazis that they, the Poles, would personally do what the SS had set out to do from the start. They herded the Jewish citizens together in a building and burned it to the ground, women, men, and children alike, then stole the property of the departed. Fearing that their heirs might some day come back, they were alert to any situation that might force them under current laws to return the property to the rightful owners.<\/p>\n<p>Thereby comes the fictionalized tale, based on this actual event, as constructed by filmmaker Wladyslaw Pasikowski. While the entire story is told in the present tense with no generally expected flashbacks to the war, \u201cAftermath\u201d is an engrossing tale well told, one which has been banned in parts of Poland despite being shown at the Warsaw Film Festival to an audience partly enraged, partly somber. Polish people are not \u2018fessing up to what their grandparents may have done in this rural area, and treat those who insist on digging up the truth in the most hostile and even violent way.<\/p>\n<p>The two people who angered Poles the most in this narrative are Franek Kalina (Ireneusz Czop) and his estranged brother J\u00f3zek (Maciej Stuhr). Franek, who did not attend the funeral of his parents as did his more conventional brother J\u00f3zek, returns from his residence in Chicago to the village for the first time in decades, where he is met with understandable hostility not only from J\u00f3zek but from almost all the local farmers and tradespeople. Both retain anti-Jewish feelings; Franek by insisting that \u201cthe Yids\u201d have the Chicago industries so under control that \u201cit\u2019s difficult for a Pole to make a buck.\u201d J\u00f3zek\u2019s view is more complicated. Though he, like his neighbors, considers Jews not to be \u201creal Poles,\u201d he has mysteriously dug up some stones used to pave the roads because the roadway is built with the gravestones of the departed Jews. He more or less insists that he\u2019d do this for any group because \u201cit\u2019s not right to desecrate a cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now and then violence from the village breaks out against both brothers and J\u00f3zek\u2019s home, a shack, really, is filled with graffiti, a big \u201cJude\u201d greeting passersby, and his dog is decapitated with a scythe. While Franek is dumfounded by his brothers\u2019 actions, he slowly comes around to his kin\u2019s morality as they learn the truth through visits to some older people who remember the atrocity and by looking at the municipal land records from a friendly caretaker.<\/p>\n<p>Though Pasikowski hammers away at the unsavory actions of today\u2019s villagers in much the way that Arthur Miller burrows through a similar act of corruption by suppliers to the U.S. air force in his first play, \u201cAll My Sons,\u201d he appears to use blunt verbal force rather than a nuanced approach as he wants to reach as large an audience as possible\u2014knowing that a great many people in today\u2019s world may not have even heard of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The film stands out as well because Pasikowski does not take the usual road of using Jews to find out about their unfortunate brethren but employs and all-Gentile Polish cast to recreate the events of that fateful year. Terrific acting by Ireneusz Czop and Maciej Stuhr, who in one scene appear to recreate the story of Cain and Abel<br \/>\nlifts this film into what could have been a tired history lesson into a force made all the more riveting because the writer-director takes appropriate liberties in order to revitalize an event. Despite its occurrence over seven decades previously, the barbarity is still adamantly denied by much of Poland today.<br \/>\n<strong>Unrated. 107 minutes \u00a9 2013 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story \u2013 B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Acting \u2013 A-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Technical \u2013 B<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Overall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTERMATH (Poklosie) MOVIE REVIEW Menemsha Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. 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