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Fear and Love in film The Loop by Wojciech Jerzy Has
Iwona Grodź
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2016.01.009
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
The topic of the paper is The Loop (Pętla, 1956), the first feature film by Wojciech Jerzy Has, a well-known director from the so-called “Polish film school”. The film is based on a story by Marek Hłasko, the author of an internationally known collection of stories A Pretty Girl and a novel Owl, the Baker’s Daughter. The Loop is a story of Kuba, an alcoholic who is making his last attempt to get over his addiction. The viewers see one day of his life. In Has’s adaptation the main protagonist is not simply a drunk, he is someone who cannot come to terms with the new reality—in the world of appearances, falsehood, during the so-called “small stabilisation”. Thoroughly analysed will be Kuba’s romantic relations with two women: a former love and his present fiancée who is trying to liberate him not only from the world, but primarily from himself. Love and fear are the two feelings that characterise the emotional state of the film’s main protagonist. Important will also be the perception of The Loop’s protagonist as everyman, i.e., someone who could be everybody and nobody at the same time; someone who wishes to finally break up with the past, but is too tightly attached to it. His relations with a group of former friends, his relationship with the city prevent him from escaping. Can love come to the rescue? Will fear be the driving force for change? I will try to answer these and other questions in my paper.
history of Polish film, Wojciech Jerzy Has, fear and love in film
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