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Blind Chance
Przypadek
1987 · Film · 114 min
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
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It's here: https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-chance
Unfortunately, it does not appear to have English subtitles on this site according to the icons (I cannot create an account to check at the moment). It does look like you can rent the film with subtitles quite cheaply from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-Boguslaw/dp/B015ENAF20
I also recommend Kieślowski's "Przypadek" ("Blind Chance"):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084549/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxu7Z3uOLWg (full movie with English subtitles)
That's a rather intriguing causal chain of responsibility, though. You didn't say that Nader was a potential chain reaction for the election of Bush leading up to Iraq. No. You quite clearly said he was the reason for Iraq, and that is nothing but frothing lunacy. What kind of perverse ethics could lead to anyone but the actor who affirmed invasion (Bush) bearing responsibility for it? Or, to paraphrase from a scene in Kieslowski's film Przypadek, is someone who bumps into a person causing them to miss a train, leading them to encounter an old acquaintance, reuniting, becoming a doctor and taking the place of a colleague to deliver a lecture in another country, only to die in a plane crash - is the one who bumped him responsible for the doctor then dying in the crash? Preposterous.
luck, by its meaning of definition, cannot be determined or manupilated.You can either define the situation as your luck or your willingness, it just depends on how you see the context. Luck, fate and willingness.How all those are related to each other is best examined in the Kieslowski's movie Blind Chance.
I was just thinking about this issue today because the house that i wanted to rent was just rented to someone else. It was depressing & important for several reasons. I keep asking myself: "what if i called the broker earlier, just a day before? Could i have the chance to rent the house?" Well, i might be act earlier but i didn't know about the house earlier, the reason that i didn't know, well i had to do something that day..and this goes and goes and goes...Its like the Feyman video that i watched from here, some very simple things can branches into very complicated and sophisticated manners. This also partly mentioned in the funeral monologue from Synecdoche, NY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0