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Teddy Bear
Miś
1981 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Stanisław Bareja
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
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In the Polish comedy film "Miś" ("Teddy Bear"), released in 1981, there is a famous line: "We don't have your coat, what are you going to do about it?"
This line is uttered in a cloakroom scene. In the scene, the protagonist Ryszard Ochódzki goes to a cloakroom to retrieve his coat. He hands over his ticket to the attendants. They search but claim they can't find his coat. Ochódzki becomes agitated but the attendants are nonchalant.
The scene satirizes inefficiency and lack of accountability in bureaucratic systems.
Hue's "take it or leave it" answers ("Believe us, this change can only benefit the users, when it comes to security.") about their recent changes feel kinda the same. The message seems to be, "We're changing this and what are you going to do about it?"
It's scary how a movie about life in communist Poland can still feel relevant when dealing with companies today.
Reminds me of a cult classic Polish dark comedy filmed under the iron curtain, 1981 Mis. It had a scene involving a sport team visiting west for the first time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk2SqlL3Vt0&feature=youtu.be&t=286 Sports club President monologue goes like this:
"You are going to the capital of a capitalist country. This country may have its plusses. The point is, however, that the plusses shouldn't blind you to the minusses!"
(„Jedziecie do stolicy kraju kapitalistycznego, który to kraj ma być może nawet tam i swoje plusy. Rozchodzi się jednak o to, żeby te plusy nie przesłoniły wam minusów!”)
Iron curtain fell 8 years after making this movie.