WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Kirpianuscus a film like a confession. honest in a cruel manner. fresh because it has not the ambition to impress. touching as each story about love. but different because it is an unique form of love, the love of an age, impossible, strange and without limits. the love of a teenager who becomes more than a piece from The Decalogue but a strange, beautiful, bitter portrait of a fight. like many films by Kieslowski, it is a minor event with deep roots. nothing special. only few gestures, silences, expectations and a final revelation. a film who reminds the small things. in a form who is not exactly useful for reflection or for rediscover one of the most convincing Eastern directors but for the rare delicacy of a testimony who transforms every day reality.

bandw (Spoilers) Magda's apartment is across a courtyard from Tomek's. Outside of working as a clerk in the local post office Tomek's main passion is spying on Magda through his telescope. As shy as he is, he is driven by his obsession to establish contact with Magda.I view this movie as more of a parable than as a believable drama. Would Magda leave all of her windows curtain-less? Would she not flee her stalker? At first I fluctuated between being made very uncomfortable by Tomel's voyeurism, but came to understand that his obsession arose from an immature concept of love as platonic--he answers "no" to Magda's questioning if he wants to kiss her or have sex with her. Magda is coming from the opposite position of feeling that love does not exist, only sex. In the intense crucial scene where Magda gently seduces Tomek by merely placing his hands on her thighs, Tomek is stimulated to the point of having an orgasm while still fully clothed. This so shatters his concept of love, and of himself, that he runs away and later attempts suicide.On Magda's side, when she comes to understand just how powerfully Tomek felt about her, she realizes that her feelings for him have been more than sexual.Had both Tomek and Magda come at their encounter with the idea that love has both platonic and sexual aspects, then maybe they could have had something meaningful between them. The movie ends with Magda envisioning what could have been.Zbigniew Preisner's rather sentimental and repetitive score is a bit of a departure from his more commonly operatic formalism, but effective nonetheless, with the themes reflecting the storyline.

atomic-ant i watched it last night and it completely blew me away. what a brilliant, wonderful, heart touching,.... ( running out of adjectives ) film. while watching it a rarest thing happened to me, tears filled my eyes. last time i remember tears rolling down, it was while watching "to kill a mockingbird". it's actually a good thing that it is one of cinema's best kept secrets because there are people who don't have the heart to appreciate it. i am 19 and a straight guy and i can say for sure there are morons who would call it the crappiest, lousiest film ever. so at least it has been saved from those god forsaken creatures. anyway i just love this movie. my ratings 10/10

siderite For someone used by Hollywood to romantic films being comedies, this could be a hard one to swallow. In a way, yes, it is a drama, but no more than any other strong love is. The movie attacks directly the strongest feelings anyone has ever had: the first love. Since the main character is an introverted 19 year old, the power of his inner love can only be hinted at. But one gets the picture.The story is irrelevant, in itself, the lead idea is that someone can identify one's life and reason to live with a feeling that isn't even shared. The interaction between the love sick and his target is only a small ploy to make us understand the things that go on inside the man.All in all I've seen better movies than this, having stronger messages. Wicker Park, for example, is a fairly recent US movie that captures in a more alert, yet implausible way the same feelings of obsession. Is that the truest love, or is it just a Chimera, making people chase their own tail in the illusion that they have a real feeling? I think there are few movies that explore this issue, this being one of them. Be prepared for a rather depressing view on the matter.