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Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (1964)
Ruthless Spy vs Secret Police
If You enjoyef Needle, where german spy infoltrate British soil, you will enjoy this movie.
The spy is transported near polish coast in submarine. The sub procure a baloon, which spy uses to deploy into polish soil (pretty Bond-ish).
But communist era polish coast guard is paranoid - it finds out about foreign sub, and detects "low flying object"...
Later we have usual cat and mouse game and battle of wits.
As film is a relict of communist era, the spy ring is portrait as a bad guys (we never find out for which country they work).
The interior affairs service is portrait as good guys: some of them acting like boy scouts, some of them have level of deduction that Sherlock Holmes would be impressed by, some of them have reach and power to throw everything that security machine can offer against agent B.
Whiplash (2014)
For me, it's a rape movie
I understand what Chazelle wanted to show - that to achieve greatness, one has to devote a lot.
But when I looked at Whiplash it was just story of abuse, Simmons character tries to break people - I'm really not sure is that a recipe for success(Well. I'm sure it's not).
The happiest moment for me when Andrew took the stand and said that he should be a drummer (before the crash scene).
It felt like rape victim standing up to oppressor.
Whiplash is really an intense movie, but for me, first 60% of the film was just painful to watch.