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Sexmission
Seksmisja
1984 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Juliusz Machulski
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Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.
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You've been watching "the 12 monkeys" ? Or just read PKD's "The Penultimate Truth" ? Or even just "Terminator" because that seems to be about humanity's life underground. Or even the polish film "sexmission" from 1984. Or maybe Stanslaw Lem's "memoir found in a bathtub" about the pentagon 5 layers deep underground...
I haven't seen Silo, but if you like quirky sci-fi like Seksmisja then:
Kin-dza-dza![1], Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu[2], Akumulátor 1[3], Dark Star[4], Na srebrnym globie[5], Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem[6], The American Astronaut[7]
Bonus round (quirky not sci-fi): Hausu[8], Sedmikrásky[9], Einstein's Brain[10], Gyakufunsha kazoku[11]
[1] https://letterboxd.com/film/kin-dza-dza/
[2] https://letterboxd.com/film/ivan-vasilyevich-changes-his-profession/
[3] https://letterboxd.com/film/accumulator-1/
[4] https://letterboxd.com/film/dark-star/
[5] https://letterboxd.com/film/on-the-silver-globe/
[6] https://letterboxd.com/film/tomorrow-ill-wake-up-and-scald-myself-with-tea/
[7] https://letterboxd.com/film/the-american-astronaut/
[8] https://letterboxd.com/film/house/
[9] https://letterboxd.com/film/daisies/
[10] https://letterboxd.com/film/relics-einsteins-brain/
[11] https://letterboxd.com/film/the-crazy-family/
For anyone who liked Silo, I'd recommend a quirky sci-fi from 1980's Poland called Sexmission [1]. Similarly, they live underground and try to escape. Fascinating ending too, and I wonder how it matches with what will happen in Silo.
[1] https://letterboxd.com/film/sexmission/
The goal is parthenogenesis, I think Seksmisja movie is prophetic in some sense
English link:
https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/sexmission
"Sexmission" is impressively strong social critique disguised as... erotic comedy: https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/sexmission
> The document also states that "mom and dad" should be replaced with words like "grown-ups, folks, or family."
Then "mother and father" should be replaced with "birth giver" and "conception facilitator" /s
That is until we as a species achieve parthenogenesis by the year 2044, as described by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexmission movie.
I don't know if it was intentional, but Copernicus and Marie Curie-Skłodowska in an "who else" sentence like that sounds like partial setup for a well-known polish joke/meme from the movie "Sexmission", where few men wake up from cold sleep far in the future after war, to find a society composed of only women. Treated like curios, there happens a dialogue that essentially goes:
(man, defending the idea that men could have produced exceptional works):
M1: "For example Copernicus" W: "Liar, Copernicus was a woman!" M1: "And Einstein?" W: "was a woman too!" M1: "And maybe Marie Curie-Skłodowska too!?" M2: "uh, that was not the best example" M1: "they confused me..."
I'd say a pretty obvious test for "nationality" of Copernicus would be the fact that he fought on polish side in the wars in Prussia, as the royal prussian protectorate didn't exist at the time. But if you look using a later map, you might get confused on that.
As for naming, at least in some circles it used to be the norm to use local language forms of names - this for example led to such "polonized" names like
"William Szekspir" = William Shakespeare "George Waszyngton" = George Washington, etc.
Chopin ends up a curious case since he is written and spoken the french way, without any mangling.
It's a paraphrase of a quote from a well known Polish comedy film Seksmisja. Highly recommended if you know Polish language and some culture/history! Also, you may then find out that numerous quotes from the film have entered the popular language :)
https://youtu.be/lwleaxA0ps0?t=266
There are some good Russian movies that are somewhat unknown to the Western public. For example, I wonder if any of you have seen these:
Georgiy Daneliya. "Kin-dza-dza!" (1986) [1]
Larisa Shepitko. "The Ascent" (1977) [2]
Leonid Maryagin. "Public enemy - Bukharin" (1990) [3]
Aleksey German. "Twenty Days Without War" (1977) [4]
Aleksey German. "Khrustalyov, My Car!" (1998) [5]
Stanislav Rostotskiy. "A zori zdes tikhie" (1972) [6]
Mikhail Kalatozov. "True Friends" (1954) [7]
Mikhail Kozakov. "Pokrov Gates" (1982) [8]
Georgiy Daneliya. "Osenniy marafon" (1979) [9]
Elem Klimov. "Come and See" (1985) [10]
Victor Ginzburg. "Generation П" (2011) [11]
Sergei Gerasimov. "The Journalist" (1967) [12]
(this one is Polish) Juliusz Machulski. "Sexmission" (1984) [13]
(also Polish) Krzysztof Kieslowski. "The Decalogue" (1989) [14]
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075404/
[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100891/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074447/
[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156701/
[6] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068161/
[7] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047650/
[8] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083465/
[9] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079679/
[10] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
[11] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459748/
[12] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062524/
[13] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/
[14] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092337/