Film Review: Blind Chance
In Polish, with English subtitles
This film could have inspired such films as Run Lola Run and Sliding Doors. I don't know of any film made before 1982 that had similar narrative structure as Blind Chance's. The theme is interesting, something that sustained my interest. Anyone who loves film should not miss this.
Facing an unclear future, Witek, an earnest young Polish medical student, chooses to put his education on hold. With his head full of promising and ominous portents of his new adult life, Witek hurries to catch the last train to Warsaw. But as he races down the platform, blind chance blossoms into three successive scenarios in which Witek's catching or missing his train spawns three completely different futures. Whether as an idealistic Communist party member, an ambivalent dissident or a developed healer or husband, the young Pole's destiny is shaped by the unhappy youth threatening to hobble him, the troubled present poised to engulf him and, in Kieslowski's words, the powers that meddle with our fate. - from the synopsis of the Kino DVD release.
Rating: 3.5/4.0
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