ReaderKenka
Let's be realistic.
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Organnall
Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,
Brenda
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
runamokprods
Apparently quite beloved in its native Poland, this is a very amusing, sometimes over the top satire of life under the bureaucracy of communism. The president of a soccer club tries to hold things together when his wife destroys his passport just before he has to leave a trip to play in the UK, so she can beat him there and steal some money they stashed away. Everyone is playing and coning everyone else, with sometimes unpredictable results.Not a great film, but a breezy enjoyable one.
ab-320
the thing about Miś as well as other Polish movies of that era is that u have to be Polish to fully understand what the movie is really about. Or u just need to know history of Poland and how socialism looked like. Each scene in the movie illustrates some stupid ideas introduced by socialists in Poland. Take for example the entering scene about that paper houses. There used to be a law in Poland that said that three houses located at a certain distance between each other and close to the road was seen as a build-up area where there were certain speed limits. In the movie,Militia used that law for their own purpose and they could give tickets to drivers even if the houses were made of paper. Of course that paradox wouldn t happen in reality, but for Poles that idea is funny. Miś is a very symbolic movie and it contains a lot of hidden meanings,thus for those who fully understand the matter the movie is the funniest movie ever.
Joanna
First time I've seen it, I didn't fully get the idea what this film is supposed to be about. Maybe a little bit funny, sometimes silly, but in overall, didn't make sense. At all.But when you actually think about how life in Poland was at that time, and if you know somebody ( preferably from Poland ) who will guide you, you'll find this film hilarious and love it. It shows, very sarcastically though, how the life in Poland in early 1980s was, and how people were dependent on each other. I don't want to talk about it too much, but the score is 10 without doubts, and if you're looking for a clever foreign comedy, that's the one you should see.
Bartosz Milewski
Like most Polish movies of the Communist era, "Teddy Bear" has several layers of meaning. On the surface it's a comedy of absurdities. But the absurdities make perfect sense in the political context of Poland of the 1970th. The movie shows Communism is its final stages of decay. The system becomes a game with complex and absurd rules. Only people who master these rules can be successful. The film's hero is one of them.The key to understanding the movie is the dialog between the hero and a film producer about a straw bear--a giant prop for the movie they are making. The producer uses common sense to try to minimize the movie's production costs. The hero explains to him how rational arguments don't apply in the system they are living in. The simpleton film producer is initiated in the ways of the system.There is a progression from George Orwell's stern an tragic "1984", through Terry Gilliam's tragicomic "Brazil", to the comically absurd "Teddy Bear"--a progression which reflects the various stages and versions of Communism. The Polish version is the most benign and tongue-in-cheek and the film describes it perfectly.
