I saw it under the title Farewell to Steam, but I don't know what I saw. Which won't stop me from reviewing it anyway. This short could tell about anything from the love of trains to the sex appeal of women in uniforms to the issues of smoking marijuana, although I doubt the latter considering that the film-makers themselves appear to have been working under influence.

The first scene shows a man lying across railway tracks. Not on top of them, as if he was tired of living, but underneath. In this position, he gets an orgasm by looking into a kaleidoscope. Then, when a train arrives, he is pulled out by a blue mixture of a reindeer and a bicycle. With the rest in the same vein, I would say that the message of the story, if there is one, doesn't reach the podium of clarity; not even the quarter-finals.

Surprisingly, despite the fact that I tire quickly of watching my fellow Man's hallucinations, I followed painlessly these psychedelic pictures, with their characters straight out of Carnaby Street's 1960s. I think the music helped. The score is garage-band-like, a tad overly repetitive in its riffs, but catchy and positively energetic.

To sum it up, Zegnaj Paro! is a colourful mess of a story with a pleasant and equally vivid score. Oh, and there are lyrics as well, in abundance. They might clarify what's happening graphically, but not for the few of us who made the mistake of never learning Polish.

Before leaving, I had to try and find out what this is really about, and according to translated Polish web pages, there is indeed a plot: A young man lives constantly in a fantasy world, until he starts working for a railroad company. Was it all an educational program from behind the Iron Curtain ? My title still fits.

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