Change Your Image
alicjajakubowska
Reviews
A Woman Captured (2017)
A woman's spirit at its most heroic
It's incomprehensible to think such cruelty exists... the enslaved woman "Marish" God I felt so deeply about her inhumane mistreatment. What a remarkable and brave woman to have to endure such cruelty for 10 years and at the same time trying to protect her family from harm. This film will break your heart as you watch with despair the unfolding horrendous abuse Misha is facing on a daily basis and seeing with an open eyes how her will broke. But, there is hope in the end as Marish takes the courage to escape. We need these films to become widespread, regardless of how uncomfortable they are, as only the awareness and education of this crime can have a real effect in eradicating it.
Some of the abusive comments about this film I have seen on internet just show a complete lack of compassion and care and for those who wrote it: this woman is braver than you will ever be.
Hurricane (2018)
Missed opportunity to tell a vital piece of history of WWII, but glad it was at least brought to light
As much as I love the fact our Polish Air Force played such an important part in the victory of the Battle of Britain and our Polish airmen contributed greatly to it, the film did not give them justice as they deserved. Showing more realistic internal conflicts of each pilot would have benefited. Thus, l liked some of the scenes of air battles that reflected the true nature of war casualties and it made me really feel for them. It was nice to see some scenes of British women who served under ATA and how little respect they were given by their superiors, but men were glorified for the same jobs. There was also too much focus on one character from the 303 squadron. Understandably, the film was meant to pay tribute to the Kosciuszko 303 squadron, but I have not been given a chance to really know these pilots, there was not enough substance to build their characters so the viewers were not given a chance to know them better...Which is a shame, as the opportunity was there, but it was missed. I am also disappointed why this film was not given a chance to be shown at bigger cinemas, it was meant to show the untold story of our legendary Polish pilots, but the film was only limited to very small screens, what a pity!