Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Kirpianuscus Or, more exactly, propaganda of war. dark, macabre - the music from Balkans as clue - , well crafted and proposing the expected provocative story of Tomek Baginski. ironic parable about war, armies, soldiers and dark sides of "innocent" delights.

Lee Eisenberg Tomasz Bagiński's "Sztuka spadania" ("Fallen Art" in English) poses the question of what constitutes glory amid war. The main character makes short movies featuring the dead bodies of soldiers pushed off of a springboard onto a slab of concrete. In short, he turns the soldiers' entire history into his own entertainment. I get the feeling that Bagiński made this as a reference to his own government's participation in the invasion of Iraq. Poland's government, like the rest of the governments in the so-called coalition of the willing, joined up with the invasion and occupation despite massive opposition among its population. I don't know how many people Poland lost in that most ill conceived of wars. There can be no doubt that it will weigh on the Poles' conscience for decades to come.Anyway, this is a good cartoon. The best cartoons are these short ones, as opposed to the features voiced by the celebrities of the moment.

ametel2 In these days of US heading for another proxy war, movies like that are more important then ever. Especially when media today totally controls the opinions of mindless viewers. When they can take pictures of dying soldiers and turn it into entertainment. We see it everyday on the TV screens and in papers. And the public is hungry for more. If it is not cruel and bloody, it is not entertaining to them. Maybe when they themselves or their sons get drafted to fight and lose their lives for all the wrong reasons, they will think again and remember this short animated story by Tomek Baginski. And if some of them survive and come back to the once great country devastated by the WW III, they will have plenty of time to reevaluate whom they voted for in 2008 while standing in the soup line.

Polaris_DiB This little short operates on two levels.The first is it's humorous story, that of a bunch of soldiers--we aren't really given who they are or what they're doing there--that are shoved off of a tall diving board to their deaths, and then photographed to be sent to this fierce fat guy who is collecting them for an animation.The second is an exploration of animation itself, as it is done in very caricaturist CG but has the second level of being something of a stop-motion animation. The fat guy takes the pictures of the dead soldiers and puts them into a projector to make a very macabre dance... and nothing is funnier than watching him dance along with hundreds of dead soldiers.Could this possibly be something about the amount of death and toil that goes into making precise art? I'd like to think so, otherwise I can't really see an excuse for it, even though it is quite definitely the perfect example of morbid comedy.--PolarisDiB