The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash

Film - 2022
8,0
29.1K
The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash it's a movie with Michał Krzywicki, Dagmara Brodziak, Marek Dyjak, Weronika Humaj, Philippe Tłokiński Full cast. Directed by Michał Krzywicki. Original title Dzień, w którym znalazłem w śmieciach dziewczynę, runtime 98 minutes. Genres Drama, Sci-Fi.
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Review of  Emiliano Baglio Emiliano Baglio
Poland, 2026. Criminals are punished with automation, that is, they are given a collar that injects a drug called Vaxina into their neck which deprives them of memory, makes them insensitive to pain and essentially transforms them into automatons ready to be exploited for carry out menial and repetitive work or with more sinister purposes.2028. As a gesture of rebellion against this system, the activist Szymon (Michal Krzywicki, also director of the film) has announced that on New Year's Eve he will commit suicide live; however, shortly before carrying out the gesture he will find an automaton without a collar in the Blue garbage (Dagmara Brodziak also co-author of the screenplay and creative producer of the film). The only hope for the girl is to somehow reach nearby and free Sweden. Dystopias have often been the means through which to narrate the present in disguise, perhaps even to escape the traps of censorship. It would therefore be all too easy to see 2028 - The girl found in the garbage as a metaphor for the political drift of today's Poland led by a reactionary, xenophobic and racist right-wing government that is progressively attacking every freedom and civil right. However, such an obvious interpretation would be extremely reductive for framing the film. Dystopian science fiction represents little more than a starting point for the Krzywicki/couple Brodziak. In part this choice is a consequence of the budget of just 150 thousand euros with which the film was made which, also for this reason, appears deeply rooted in reality. Krzywicki and Brodziak, especially in the first part of the film, skilfully describe with a few touches a reality completely devoid of humanity. Their Poland is a rain-beaten country, immersed in the anonymous gray of the few interiors that can be seen, starting from Szymon's squalid apartment. In this scenario the automatons, in addition to carrying out humble and repetitive jobs, they are obviously used as Read all

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In the near future an indifferent activist announces that at midnight on New Year’s Eve he is going to commit suicide in protest against the renewed slavery system in Poland. His plan is put on hold the moment he finds an abandoned slave woman in the trash and decides to help set her free.

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