Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 22 nominations
Volodymyr Hurin
- Young Soldier
- (as Vladimir Gurin)
Zoya Baranovska
- The Woman Driver
- (as Zoya Baranovskaya)
Oksana Cherkashyna
- Combat medic
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaOfficial submission of Ukraine for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.
Featured review
How does war transform us?
We're survivors. In a democratic country with low unemployment and access to health care, it's easy to have morals or pretend to be noble. Plummeted into poverty and the threat of extinction, we're more likely to do whatever it takes to live - avoidance, running or fighting.
'Bad Days' isn't about running away. This is about those left behind. It's appropriate that this is an anthology, four stories showing different angles to devolution in the Ukrainian context of war. The theme may be consistent but tension, or the lack thereof, isn't. Consequently, I recommend that each be watch individually, at different times over one day or one per day. As short films, they work stronger. And they need to be impactful because 'Bad Days' is important.
Part 1: A school headmaster arrives at a checkpoint without his identity document. The frustration at not being able to move freely within one's own country reminds me '200 Meters' and excellent Palestinian movie released last year. The personal and internal conflict here is meekness versus bravery.
Part 2: Part 1 indirectly introduced the topic of sex during war. Or maybe it's more precise to state men versus women with the caveat that women are capable of making their own bad choices. Here, a young woman and her grandmother sit at a bullet riddled bus stop, the latter trying to persuade the teen orphan to come home with her instead of pursuing her infatuation with a soldier.
Part 3: This is the most direct and will likely be most viewer's best segment. A soldier has captured a woman. He claims to enjoy inflicting pain, and enacts it upon her, but he pauses at the possibility of love which suggests he wasn't an animal before the war.
Part 4: What would you do if you ran over a chicken? And what would you do if you were the chicken's owner? Are we always who we are, or does poverty devolve us? Although subtle, I found this segmen to be profound.
Director Natalya Vorozhbit has made a strong debut as director. I will seek out her previous screenplay, 'Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die', a biopic about the fight for an airport. Whereas that title had previously deterred me, I'm now confident that Vorozhbit chooses nuance and ambiguity over taking a side.
'Bad Days' can be appreciated by both Ukrainians and Russians.
'Bad Days' isn't about running away. This is about those left behind. It's appropriate that this is an anthology, four stories showing different angles to devolution in the Ukrainian context of war. The theme may be consistent but tension, or the lack thereof, isn't. Consequently, I recommend that each be watch individually, at different times over one day or one per day. As short films, they work stronger. And they need to be impactful because 'Bad Days' is important.
Part 1: A school headmaster arrives at a checkpoint without his identity document. The frustration at not being able to move freely within one's own country reminds me '200 Meters' and excellent Palestinian movie released last year. The personal and internal conflict here is meekness versus bravery.
Part 2: Part 1 indirectly introduced the topic of sex during war. Or maybe it's more precise to state men versus women with the caveat that women are capable of making their own bad choices. Here, a young woman and her grandmother sit at a bullet riddled bus stop, the latter trying to persuade the teen orphan to come home with her instead of pursuing her infatuation with a soldier.
Part 3: This is the most direct and will likely be most viewer's best segment. A soldier has captured a woman. He claims to enjoy inflicting pain, and enacts it upon her, but he pauses at the possibility of love which suggests he wasn't an animal before the war.
Part 4: What would you do if you ran over a chicken? And what would you do if you were the chicken's owner? Are we always who we are, or does poverty devolve us? Although subtle, I found this segmen to be profound.
Director Natalya Vorozhbit has made a strong debut as director. I will seek out her previous screenplay, 'Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die', a biopic about the fight for an airport. Whereas that title had previously deterred me, I'm now confident that Vorozhbit chooses nuance and ambiguity over taking a side.
'Bad Days' can be appreciated by both Ukrainians and Russians.
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- wickedmikehampton
- Jan 2, 2022
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $28,011
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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