A fresh movie by Patrick Vega "Putin" entered the cinema and I watched it so that you wouldn't have to. I effort to present affirmative phenomena here, but erstwhile something like this happens, the situation requires criticism.
At the very beginning, I would like to point out – "Putin" Patrick Vega is the best Polish movie I have always seen. It's been over a week since I published my video review on the channel Against Censur, which I powerfully encourage you to watch, so I had time to think about it. I looked in memory and I truly can't name a worse movie produced in Poland. I knew from the very beginning erstwhile the planet saw the first leaks (of course purposeful) that it would be a very bad film. Besides, nothing else could be expected from the king of kitsch and inexpensive sensations of Patrick Vega, or actually Patrick Krzemienick, due to the fact that the manager changed his name to American, borrowed from the movie "Pulp Fiction".
As a “filmist” he has a very stormy past – he started with a paper about the criminal world, then there were idiotic comedies and a return to criminal themes, but always based on controversy. Vega is simply a younger and much dumber version of Wojciech Smarzowski (who I besides think is highly overrated) due to the fact that he theoretically works according to a akin strategy – in his films he takes on any environment or manufacture (e.g. police officers, services, doctors or politicians), he examines the controversy associated with them, and then utilizing vulgar hyperbole he tells about them. And it wouldn't should be that bad in itself, but Vega does it in a repulsive way – without art, a movie workshop and any ambition another than making money from the scandal. This manager embodies everything that I feel destroys culture by becoming the personification of the word ANTICULTURE. By preying on the lowest human needs – controversy, obscenity, force and vulgarity to the limits of absurdity, the transmission of Patryk Vega has become, in my opinion, the worst phenomenon that has happened to Polish cinematography in general. I never understood the delights of his films, which are kitsch in the worst edition. While inactive "Pitbull" and "Services", i.e. the first 2 larger productions of Vega, can be considered an interesting debut of a young (twenty-six-year-old) filmmaker, it was inactive only bad or worse...
This time, however, Vega passed himself and created a movie worse than all his erstwhile and worse even than Krauzy's celebrated “SMOLEŃSK” and this is already a feat! If we agree that there must be any limits beyond which we lose not only good taste, but we enter the way of demolition of what art should be, then Vega crossed them at the very beginning of the film. He then moved forward without any inhibitions and took viewers into the planet of perverse controversy and idiotic kitsch. In the end, he went back to that border and defeated on it to make certain that he was certain to alienate the viewer enough? I'm sorry about the pictorial presentation, but it's impossible to tell.
Kazik Staszewski sings in his iconic song that “all artists are prostitutes”. I don't know what kind of man Vega is, but he's definitely not an artist. At best, she's an artistic hen... If this movie was going to origin an global scandal, which I admit I was a bit afraid of, then all of Vega's luck went so far as to make viewers and critics feel at most embarrassing and angry. The only way the movie would become a diplomatic scandal would be like an unwarranted “ducking it” by criticism in the West and, for example, granting any kind of award. I inactive do not exclude specified a scenario, due to the fact that it would aid to make us even more “anti-Russian” and take another step towards war. The movie Vega as a realization of the slogan “Poland – first to fight” (a small coloring now). However, I find this script unlikely, due to the fact that fortunately this movie is besides weak!
In the movie environment, it is rather openly said that “Putin” for Vega was to be just a money jump. The manager obtained funds from private investors who believed in his marketing skill and the sense of “revelation” on which he could be earned. Many of them are alleged "heads and bush companies". He besides found abroad producers and distributors, and then took care of spending money! Let us remind that the movie was initially scheduled to be released in 2023, but the manager was moving the premiere. Interestingly, from the very beginning Vega boasted in the media that it would be a “big abroad hit”, but for now it is only displayed in Poland! It is only in the autumn that the movie is to be distributed in almost 60 countries, and it is not comic at all, due to the fact that even though it is ANGLO-JESICAL, it is all about it and about it is the production of Poland. Exactly, according to Filmweb, the countries of production are: Poland, the USA, Malta, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Jordan and Israel.
The manager and script of this misfortune is Patrick Vega. The photographs and assembly are made by Michał Gościek and Tomasz Widarski. Gentlemen will regret this cooperation for the remainder of their lives if they have any sense and dignity of man. What's happening out there can't be seriously described. Vega doesn't even hide why he shot this part of crap – as usual he wanted to gain from controversy. He simply stated that the movie about Putin will play on the string of Polish rusophobia. He became active in the function of president Putin Sławomir Sobala – a man who is not even an actor, but he became known for being Putin, who is fighting another clown dressed as Zelenski at any pathological MMA gala!
This is the level – Vega's films are for movie art what alleged freakfights for martial arts. I explain to the happily unoriented readers: FREAK-FIGHT (warming freaks) are duels in cages of pathological net stars like Shreiberowa, Najman or Muarański – Down and a fewer meters of mud! Sobali was created with AI method – alleged Deepfake to match him even more like Vladimir Putin. As long as it doesn't talk, the image inactive holds up somehow, but erstwhile it starts it's all falling apart, due to the fact that you can see that all the peculiar effects in this production have been done on the heads – this is simply a level of virtually Tik-Tok videos, and even in those AIs frequently better used. In the full film, the actors are speaking IN ANGELIST WITH THE PROFESSIONAL RUSSIAN ACTENT! It is as follows: “Ju nol, dis is rasha. Łi drinking quite a few vodka and łi ar sun bed!” I urge proceeding this in the trailer – a barrel of laughter!
The film, as usual in Vega, has no script – it is simply a cluster of scenes and gags that do not merge in any logical way! There is no timeline here, there is no guiding thought, the camera works unstable as in the most amateur productions, and the assembly... good – there is no installation here. Besides, Vega himself admits this in 1 of his interviews. Well, he allegedly conducted a marketplace survey by presenting various scenes from the movie in different countries and checking which causes the top controversy? On this basis, he made various editings with a squad – in each country the scenes are presented to viewers in a different order! What don't you understand?
In Poland, the movie starts with the phase erstwhile by. Putin's in any infirmary with a diaper in his own feces. Not much? It is further shown that in Russia children drink vodka – it is simply a scene with small Putin standing in line with children for booze. We besides see Jelcin, who drinks vodka out of a bottle, deficiency of toilet paper and many another completely stupid scenes that are intertwined with vulgar language and gruesome violence! Of course, there is simply a spiritual subject – indeed! Vega constantly talks about his conversion and puts God’s motive everywhere in specified a way that it gives emergence to disgust, even in people who are indifferent to spiritual issues.
Fortunately, the movie was rightly crushed by criticism and did not even aid the controversy "FOR RUSOFOBIA". He was watched on the first weekend by under 38,000 viewers, which is simply a complete flop for this budget – the production reportedly cost 14 million DOLARS! The image is to be distributed in nearly 60 countries, which disgusts me. I wonder how serious companies can agree to spread this part of shit? So what are these companies?
TriCoast will spread production to the US and Canada market, where it is scheduled to go to cinema on September 27. Kinostar will release the movie this autumn in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, large Britain and Ireland. Take 1 acquired the rights to distribute the movie in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the AU movie in Ukraine! Continental movie purchased “Putina” for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while Özen movie will release it in Turkey. Noori Pictures acquired rights to movie on the marketplace of South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. truly Happy movie deals with distribution in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Really? Nobody's gonna halt it? I know we don't live in a average country, but this is an aberration. By the way, it is simply a movie which, if it were a bit more serious, could become a DYPLOMATIC SKANDAL. As I mentioned, it is improbable that there is simply a chance, due to the fact that it cannot be taken seriously. Unfortunately, the plan is that Poland is to vomit this production to respective twelve countries! Is it truly Patrick Vega’s movie “Putin” – according to the criticism of the BEST, POLSKI movie of fresh years (it’s for sure!) and for me at all the worst – this is something we want to boast in the world? There's no 1 to halt it? Of course, there will be alleged freelours who will say, "Private initiative, so what's it to who? Private works better!’ Really?
It remains to appeal to the minds and portfolios of all these investors. In my opinion, if even in Poland, where unfortunately Vega is simply a well-known director, and the ground in the form of anti-Russian moods seemed vulnerable, the movie is simply a financial flop, I foretell that beyond the borders of our country there is no chance to earn! You know what? This is simply a affirmative thought at the end – PEOPLE DID NOT BUY IT. I hope this ends the artistic career of the chicken... .tyzany Patrick Vega, due to the fact that his disappearance from Polish culture would be something positive. I want you and myself – let Patrick Vega and his anticulture disappear!
Bartosz Iwicki
photo of filmweb
Think Poland, No. 5-6 (2-9.02.2025)
