Word: mikolaj
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...Dating Web sites is a difficult space to penetrate because after eHarmony, there has been little innovation. This is a new wave of social innovation,” said Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, an associate professor at HBS, who had Nagaraj as a student in the early days of the project...
...same time, many older members are snobbish towards the supposed hicks from the east. The newcomers brought dynamism and diversity to the E.U., but they are often treated like second-class members. "Nobody should preach to us now," Poland's Europe Minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz says. "Some of the economies in the [east] are much more stable, and certainly the public finances are much more healthy, than in many of the eurozone countries...
...beautiful to-die-for Julie Delpy) divorces him, claiming their marriage has not been consummated. With Karol's pathetic, meek confirmation of this fact, he ends his marriage and loses everything: his wife, her love, his car, his hairdressing business, but above all, his dignity. He meets the impassive Mikolaj (played by Jenusz Gajos) who agrees to take him back to Poland in a suitcase if he will return the favor by performing a sort of euthanasia upon their arrival. They have a deal...
...film continues, Karol surrepticiously (and illegally) makes a fortune and includes Mikolaj in the spoils. His first and foremost concern, his driving force, his incentive which incites him to mask his own death and create a new identity for himself, is to avenge himself and frame his wife--because he loves her so much...
...comparison to "Blue" with its melancholic and somber tone, "White" is a black comedy of quirkiness and creativity. When the person Karol has agreed to kill turns out to be Mikolaj, we are not really surprised. The sense of voyeurism accomplished with Karol watching his own funeral or looking through binoculars at his ex-wife in prison do not overtly strike the viewer as unusual. But combined, these and other scenes slowly converge to form Kieslowski's unique way in which to tell his love story...