I wanted to not like this film.
For some reason.
Because it wasn’t my first love.
That would be Popiół i diament.
But Knife in the Water is as good a place as any to start.
Poland.
Quite frankly, this film blew my socks off.
Nóż w wodzie is a strange little masterpiece.
Truly.
On this day when Paris burns.
Appropriate.
That we get to a Parisian director named Roman Polański.
Yes, this film is like the day.
Today.
Yesterday.
All along we are afraid that someone is going to kill someone.
We suspect the vagrant. The migrant.
But we find out that the real asshole is the yachtsman.
That shouldn’t have been hard to guess, but for some it takes a moment.
I first suspected the yachtsman thanks to Thierry Meyssan.
A couple of his books.
9/11: The Big Lie. And another called Pentagate.
These were among the first books to take aim at the fraudulent War on Terror by questioning the foundational event which birthed the current pall hovering over humanity.
“…an attack on humanity,” President Obama? No. YOU are an affront to humanity. With your sullied Peace Prize.
Only fitting…considering Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
Et allors…a Frenchman showed the way.
Meyssan.
The U.S. State Department branded his books as anti-American black propaganda.
In other words, they were claiming that the books stemmed from a foreign government’s attempt at geopolitical destabilization.
And you would know, State Department…because that is your specialty.
And so, as always, in the midst of my more adrift reviews the question arises as to the pertinence of my diatribe to said filmic document under consideration.
Nóż w wodzie is a political statement. The bourgeois couple out for a day of leisurely sailing as pitted against the nature-boy tramp.
Salt in the wounds vs. salt of the earth.
I will leave it up to the reader to connect certain unspoken dots.
But, frankly, the spectacle I saw on 24-hour-news television tonight screamed false-flag terror to me.
What do I know?
I’m merely a boy with a rucksack and a couple of black radishes.
Far be it from me to discern real from fake.
As Guy Debord said (and I paraphrase), “Reality erupts within the spectacle.”
C’est-à-dire, it is very likely that many innocent people lost their lives tonight in Paris.
Therefore, the equation would be: real death amidst fake terror.
It is the narrative which is fake.
Playing cui bono pretty quickly gets us from Islamic terrorists (who do not stand to benefit) to Western intelligence agencies (including possibly Israel) who very much stand to gain from tonight’s deadly shenanigans.
It is sad.
We don’t want it to be true.
You didn’t really cheat on me with the wanderer, did you?
And yet, the yachtsman’s wife is mostly innocent.
Sometimes it takes a miracle to realize that our lives suck. Our life sucks. We are living a sham.
That is the miracle which the yachtsman’s wife finds in a stolen kiss.
A moment of tenderness. A reminder of what real life was like.
But Roman Polanski succeeds most of all (with the help of writer Jerzy Skolimowski) in showing us that we’re all guilty as hell.
Yeah.
That’s about right.
I’m no saint.
We’re no saints.
And so false-flag terror mostly annoys us at this point.
Every time an incident “erupts” we’re not sure whether anyone died whatsoever (to begin with).
As I said, things look very grave indeed tonight in Paris.
We mourn those 100 or so young people who died at Le Bataclan…sacrificed on the altar of war profits.
It is truly Satanic (if such things exist).
A very dark ritual which terrorizes the planet.
And so the only hope for the suspect intelligence agencies is to present us with the heads of their masters.
Call them the New World Order. Call them SPECTRE.
Just call them and notify them that you will no longer be their whipping boys.
No doubt, the majority of intelligence agency employees are good, decent people.
That is why they should put their butts on the line to end this endless War on Terror charade.
Yesterday was all about sufficiently shocking the masses so as to regain control of the inhumane war against Syria from the leveling presence of Russia.
We know the equation.
Putin will never call out 9/11 as false-flag terror because he does the same thing to his people.
Just like Nóż w wodzie. No one is really innocent here (myself included). We’re all just trying to show off. And on the world stage, it is truly a deadly game.
The NWO (let’s call them) seemingly has but one trick in their bag: false-flag terrorism. 15 years of the same tune. A one-trick pony.
And how do we know this? Because of Operation Gladio. Because of revelations gleaned over the years.
The CIA is tasked with this kind of stuff. Doesn’t mean they get a whole lot of enjoyment out of it.
No, dear friends…I can’t give you the exact names–the exact chain of command, but someone can.
And maybe they are reading this and on the fence regarding their messy role in destabilizing the world.
But let’s be simple.
I can give you the name Jolanta Umecka. What a beauty! With her kitty-cat glasses. Early-60s. 1950s. The lagging fashion of the Eastern Bloc.
It’s not much.
I can give you a film review. I can put myself out on the line as the village idiot.
It is both the least and the most I can do.
I may be mistaken about everything.
Like Thoreau, I will admit when I was in error. In strong words. Tomorrow. Just as strong as those I used today.
Dear friends. What a pity that these proxy games must go on.
We are above such machinations.
There is great art to be appreciated.
Great art teaches the way.
Great art like Nóż w wodzie.
-PD
cool I didn’t even know that this film existed. Keep them coming. Nice review.
Yes, it is really a good one! Thank you!!! –Paul
It is interesting how funding for groups like ISIS primarily comes from Western allies. Combine that with the copious amount of arms the US sells to Saudi Arabia and you have either the most inept, the most corrupt, or the most complicit government strategists making those decisions.
Sounds like a great film, incidentally.
Also, your statements on Jolanta Umecka are accurate and appreciated.
Thank you! I’m beginning to think the only comparison of the media coverage of ISIS (particularly the vicious, warmongering of Fox News) which is truly apt is the kayfabe of something like WWF/WWE. Even the NYT and other “respected” papers report as if they are covering professional wrestling. To be crass a moment, they have been spewing their propagandist bullshit so long that they may actually believe it. In any case, the immortal sin is “breaking character”. They never break character. Never a mention of these conduits of terror which you mention. Well-said! –Paul