„Biała prawda myśli”. Elegia szpitalna
“The White Truth of Thought”. The Hospital Elegy

Summary/Abstract: Mike Nichols’ “Wit” (2001) is a film that radically does not fit with the contemporary cinematographic production. Its originality (in the best meaning of the word) lies chiefly in its very existence as it violates a culturaltaboo – its most conspicuous “theme” is a terminal illness, dying, and inevitably accompanying long-term pain – physical and mental – finally leading to death. It is a “common” hospital death, with no heroics involved. The film follows step-by-step history of the disease, and records variable trajectories of dying. It shows subsequent debilitating stages of the disease until the final frontier – death. “Wit” is a film on death, but it has nothing in common with a film necrophilia. Nichols combines in a surprising manner life and poetry (of John Donne),and opens up the horizon on to the infinite. He shows life, a mortal life (as we know no other), as a perspective open to nothingness and light. Life is an eternal tear, greater than its limits.

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