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A.k.a.
Two Men and a Wardrobe
Year
1958
Runtime
15 min.
Director
Roman Polanski
Genre
Short
Rating *
6.9
Votes *
1,661
Checks
898
Favs
27
Dislikes
18
Favs/checks
3.0% (1:33)
Favs/dislikes
2:1
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  1. John Milton's avatar

    John Milton

    Dwaj ludzie z szafa (Two Men and a Wardrobe) (1958)

    concerning the film, I totally agree with BlueVoid... and unless I'm mistaken, I see a very young Polanski himself as the second assailant to hit striped shirt guy, standing up against the wall. At 2.10minutes into the second part of the movie, he even gives a little hint about what he's going to do to Jack Nicholson in Chinatown....
    11 years ago
  2. BlueVoid's avatar

    BlueVoid

    This early Roman Polanski silent, black and white, short is a glimpse at his future brilliance. The short starts with two men walking out of the ocean with a wardrobe with which they are quite happy with. They proceed to parade around town with it, meeting increasingly more hostile people who don't share their same love for the wardrobe. This is apparent that this is a metaphor for intolerance. Intolerance to what, isn't explicitly clear. The reading I got out of it, was that the two men were homosexuals. They were 'out of the closet', and were being weighed down by this heavy burden in an un-accepting society. This is just my own interpretation, but the message of intolerance is strong, and the film manages to say a lot with this simple metaphor. 13 years 8 months ago
  3. 3eyes's avatar

    3eyes

    Great surreal riff on Laurel and Hardy. 11 years 9 months ago
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  1. This movie ranks #224 in Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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  2. This movie ranks #275 in Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
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