This Polish kitchen sink film, shot in grainy black and white, is a grim portrait of a young girl who is robbed of the hope of redemption by the violence and emotional bleakness of life in her working class neighborhood. It's a skillfully executed film. The stark cinematography emphasizes the grimy day to day existence that confronts the young protagonist.
Actress Aleksandra Gietner's portrayal of the teenage Tereska's fall from grace is impeccable and moving. However, Czesc Tereska is a genre film which has its counterparts in just about every country's cinematic repertory. We've already seen numerous depictions of violence in the slums, drunken, unemployed, physically abusive fathers, sexually voracious peers, dehumanizing educational systems. We've seen how young people self-destruct under the insurmountable accumulating burden of these elements.
Czesc Tereska, however poignant, fails to contribute any new insights into the familiar, dreadful progression from purity and hopefulness to depravity and destruction. More troubling is the device that director/writer Robert Glinski inserts into his story in the character of Edek, the paraplegic who lusts after Tereska and becomes her victim. Actor Zbigniew Zamachowski turns in a typically masterful performance in this role, but the interactions between the depraved cripple and the pubescent Tereska somehow remain outside the organic development of the narrative.
The lack of clear motivation in the evolution of this perverse relationship makes suspect its violent culmination, and the device which may have been intended to differentiate Czesc Tereska from its multiple cinematic counterparts ultimately causes an otherwise disturbingly realistic depiction to ring hollow.
1080p, HDTVrip, 6.47gb. The file works and the quality is good, however, the file exhibits this strange characteristic that I've seen a few times before, whereupon the "elapsed time/total remaining time" only updates every 15 to 20 seconds. Time skipping and jumping work ok, but sometimes lags a moment. I notice during playback that some frames are dropped and it occasionally lags. Has TV logo. It seems to play fine, but definitely leaves a little to be desired. Anyone seen this issue before?
Anyways, I found subs and tried to re-sync them as best I could to the above linked file. As the film lags/drops frames (my best description of what is happening), the sync isn't always perfect, but good enough. Also, there are moments where the subs seem to be auto-translated. "Thanks, I stand you a beer."
I fixed anything I could find easily, and I made an additional 40 corrections with spell check.
If anyone is interested in this movie, I'm also happy to emule it.
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Note: sorry I forgot to rename the subs and give then an ".en" at the end.
pillowbaker wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:14 amthe file exhibits this strange characteristic that I've seen a few times before, whereupon the "elapsed time/total remaining time" only updates every 15 to 20 seconds. Time skipping and jumping work ok, but sometimes lags a moment. I notice during playback that some frames are dropped and it occasionally lags. Has TV logo. It seems to play fine, but definitely leaves a little to be desired. Anyone seen this issue before?
Very strange and I think I HAVE seen it before, but not on any file I kept to make a comparison. I have computer (not blu-ray player) playback problems with H265 files, but this says it is H264.
As it seems to have been recorded from TV, there is a likelihood that the digital broadcast itself was lagging and it is a part of the original recording: you are watching in the recording the video waiting upon the satellite signal.
Or: I know nothing about the technology of recording from TV, but someone also could have poorly converted whatever format that was to our end result MKV. Maybe they did something weird like recontainering a ".ts" file simply by typing over the extension with ".mkv"? That might do something interesting, if it does not break it entirely.
Thanks for those optional links, everyone. As far as I've seen, the one that I linked above is the only easily available HD version. All other 1080p version that I came across also appeared to be TV rips, though the rutracker encode is a DVDrip.
Also of interest on the rutracker link, is the thread contain an actual long discussion about the film. Some of the viewer seem particularly affected by it. I tried not to read too much.
Night, you're probably right about the issues being related to the quality of the recording, at least for the little hiccups it has. But I don't know what is causing the time-elapsed scrolling to be so off. For those that insist on a fluid, seamless video, this will bother them a bit, but otherwise it's not so bad. Kinda like my old radio recordings on cassette tapes.
Re: [REL] Czesc Tereska (2001)
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:45 am
by Night457
"Radio"? "Cassette tapes"? What are these strange antique technologies of which you speak?
Actually, I remember having a cassette player with a physical scrolling numerical display, so you could write down and go back to the "times" at a later date. Super-advanced high tech!
Memories ... Ah, those numerical display CLOCKS with the rotating numbers ... no hands, but pre-digital ... the good old days.
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