Knife in the Water

A slow accumulation of unease. Small provocations escelate, egos destabilise relationships, and people remain stuck - endlessly trading water - rather than confronting what's hiding underneath.

A slow accumulation of unease. Small provocations escelate, egos destabilise relationships, and people remain stuck - endlessly trading water - rather than confronting what's hiding underneath.

krystyna is the only reason i liked this film. 

i had to watch this for a class and was thrown off by the director being polanski, but my professor is obsessed with this film and i don’t understand why. 

the couple decided to invite this hitchhiker that they just met on a boat ride with them? that’s dumb, who would do that? they don’t know anything about him. i get this is supposed to symbolize the husband “showing off” but that’s dumb, truly. the entire film is so predictable too, bickering couple > young handsome man comes into the picture > the wife and him kiss. yawn. just a really lazy way of trying to include the dumb misogynistic symbolism that polanski was trying to convey here.
 it’s like i didn’t even hate this film but when you think about it, it makes no sense really. it has some good elements don’t get me wrong but the idea and plot is not it.

krystyna is the only reason i liked this film. 

i had to watch this for a class and was thrown off by the director being polanski, but my professor is obsessed with this film and i don’t understand why. 

the couple decided to invite this hitchhiker that they just met on a boat ride with them? that’s dumb, who would do that? they don’t know anything about him. i get this is supposed to symbolize the husband “showing off” but that’s dumb, truly. the entire film is so predictable too, bickering couple > young handsome man comes into the picture > the wife and him kiss. yawn. just a really lazy way of trying to include the dumb misogynistic symbolism that polanski was trying to convey here.
 it’s like i didn’t even hate this film but when you think about it, it makes no sense really. it has some good elements don’t get me wrong but the idea and plot is not it.

The tension was building the entire time to basically nothing. I've never seen a movie that had subtitles seemingly random when they felt like it.

The tension was building the entire time to basically nothing. I've never seen a movie that had subtitles seemingly random when they felt like it.

Watched this for a class. Little bit of a nothing burger. Very beautiful visually but not my cup of tea narrative wise. I knew this was either gonna get polyamorous or be about masculinity and idk I was pretty close! Mainly just one big dunk on the husband LOL and bla bla parallels between the hiker and the husband and how the fact that they're men alone makes them get competitive and the hiker is probably supposed to reflect the younger version of him Krystyna fell in love so of course the two of them HAD to get together at the end… likekdjdkfjsjfjd #hetslop
Edit: Unlike the last film I just watched, the more I think about this one the more it pisses me off omggggg and FUCK Roman Polanski

Watched this for a class. Little bit of a nothing burger. Very beautiful visually but not my cup of tea narrative wise. I knew this was either gonna get polyamorous or be about masculinity and idk I was pretty close! Mainly just one big dunk on the husband LOL and bla bla parallels between the hiker and the husband and how the fact that they're men alone makes them get competitive and the hiker is probably supposed to reflect the younger version of him Krystyna fell in love so of course the two of them HAD to get together at the end… likekdjdkfjsjfjd #hetslop
Edit: Unlike the last film I just watched, the more I think about this one the more it pisses me off omggggg and FUCK Roman Polanski

Low key nothing but sexual tension between these men. it’s shot well but has a bland story.

Fuck Roman Polanski by the way.

Low key nothing but sexual tension between these men. it’s shot well but has a bland story.

Fuck Roman Polanski by the way.