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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched
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Three striking image-events from the opening, two-minute scene of Jerzy Skolimowski’s Walkover (1965): a young, anonymous woman (Elzbieta Czyzewska) staring intensely into the camera as a train pulls in behind her on the platform (at the conclusion of her gaze, she will commit suicide just off-screen, under the train wheels); a young man, Andrzej (Skolimowski himself), filmed first from outside the train and then from within it, leaning out the window and ignoring the commotion on the platform in order to chat to Teresa (Aleksandra Zawieruszanka), whom he spots outside the train; and lastly, Andrzej emerging out of the bustling crowd next to Teresa, as they approach the exit.