A little of Miss Nobody


Date: 19 March 2012

Andrzej
Wajda’s film Miss Nobody (1996) is one of the most convincing films I have
seen. Based on Tomasz Tryzna’s book Panna
Nikt
, it is a spectacular depiction of the transition from adolescence to
maturity. Inspired by psychology and psychoanalysis, the film poses questions
about human identity and humanity.

It was in
2005 when I first saw the film, and it made a big impression on me. It was not
only evocative but also thought-provoking as it intensifies the feeling of anxiety and distaste.

The film is
set in late 1990s and the action takes place in Wałbrzych. Marysia (played by young Anna Wielgucka) moves with her family to a big city in
Silesia. She cannot acclimatize in her new school and meets a strange classmate
Kasia (Anna Mucha) who introduces Marysia to her own world full of
transcendental transitions between the real world and the multi-dimensional
reality. Marysia starts realizing that
she loses her priorities in life and the borders between good and evil become blurred.

Apart from being action-packed and captivating the
film arouses negative emotions in me. Not only because of its thrilling
music, composed by Andrzej Korzyński, known from the soundtrack to La
Fidélite, 
but also due to the mystery of Kasia’s visions where the symbols
and psychological allegories are easily perceived.

Summing up,
the film is worth-seeing provided that the viewer does search in depth for psychological
analysis and an angle for reflection. Apart from the catchy main theme the
plot is gripping. It grabs your attention so much that you cannot turn
it off and that compels you to see the final scene.

Joanna
Siebert, Open University, Warsaw University.

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