.two sides of the emotions

.this was a movie night... Two films, two different stories and a huge difference in quality. But let's take it one in a time.

First one was a Slovak movie (a celebration on it's own, because we produce very few films...) called Meeting the enemy. Attractive topic (II. world war), young actors and beautiful exteriors of Slovak mountains during winter time, it all was promising an unforgettable experience...
To our big disappointment promises were not kept (except for the excellent sceneries and good performance by dying horse). Whole movie was about some moralities, chatting about metaphysics and other really not believable stuff in this conditions (prisoner of war taken to the forest for an execution). Dialogues were soooooooo bad :(. Acting was also not very convincing (maybe the actors are good in the theatre but their chance on big screen was a mistake). And super special black and white footage of Iraq and recent crash of an aircraft full of Slovak soldiers?! What is that doing in the movie from the 40th? Maybe the main sponsor was an army, who knows... Anyway, if you're sane enough, Don't you ever dare to watch this film!!! In the second half we were able only to laugh on the amateurism of this "masterpiece"...
So fully awakened from the dream to see some good Slovak movie while I'm still young, I was really hoping the next planned piece will be better. This time it was an Indian movie (but not the typical Bollywood) called Black.
Again the topic was interesting and promising a lot of emotions (life story of the deaf and blind girl and unorthodox teacher). I was quite expecting some dancing and singing party about this (as almost every Indian film is like). Luckily it was all different.
Beautiful story, talking with dignity about a girl with such a hard fate. It is an emotional whirlwind, some scenes are so strong, they haven't left anyone untouched (one man was openly crying during the end credits...). If your heart is on right place and you want to see nicely directed film about overcoming unwilling fate and believing in miracles, give this one a try. Sometimes it's a bit exaggerated, sometimes too pompous (it is the Bollywood after all), yet it's still very touching and full of humanity and love...