Społeczna sztuka poetycka. Rzecz o wpływie doboru środków artystycznych na społeczną wymowę filmów Kena Loacha
Poetic Social Art. Influence of Artistic Means on the Social Tenor of Ken Loach’s Films

Summary/Abstract: Reportedly, Ken Loach makes „social cinema”. His films are also reportedly unilateralpamphlets aimed against the system. Yet, labels tend to be misleading. Although the directorspeaks directly that he wants to change the world by making movies , adding that art musteducate, my paper reveals a certain refined claw of his work, in an equal degree consisting ofthe plot of films and a specificity of the applied cinematic means. Loach rams the viewer intofilms populated by dialect-speaking representatives of the working class, smelly hooligans,dregs of society, immigrants, and losers due to being born to the wrong class, but alsooptimistic dreamers and those wishing to transform their lives. Practically anyone watchingfilms from the British director forms a sense of solidarity with his protagonists. It seems thatthis is not only due to the plot relayed by means of a cinema screen. Therefore, what tricks,or more correctly speaking, artistic procedures performed on a motion picture does Loachuse so that upon viewing Kes one can feel not only the moral and existential anxiety, but alsodejection, regardless of their age and social standing?

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