Nothing Personal (2009) - Urszula Antoniak first film - perfectly illustrates the difference between history and story in the cinematic context : history is strictly sequence chronology of events in the film, while the story is the selection, compression or manipulation of history that holds the narrator. The story told Nothing personal is not it quite boring, but it is quite trivial and implausible as a cotidianiza depth and detail. The story, however, provides a point value to the film, introducing a series of contrasts that make it more bearable . This is not an original mix of time, or to juxtapose various viewpoints, rather it is a trifle: separate each block of the story with a title as a chapter, the sequence of which (and without altering the chronological order) lead the viewer to attend the story from a different perspective. A modification that does not radically better than the movie, but it leaves room to judge the events - the relationships in general - from the curious proposed scheme chapters. The blocks are: loneliness, the end of the relationship, marriage, the beginning of the relationship and (again) alone, something like the elementary particles of any process interpersonal knowledge, and the film shows how, even reversing the arrow of time, the four stages succeed each other in the same order, and without their characteristic landmarks are affected: 1) silence surly, brusque and bad moods and unmotivated that occurred during the late , 2) line and effortless connection, prepare meals and breakfast in bed for marriage, 3) constant sexual desire and uncontrollable thirst for knowledge of others, especially the emotional backpack during the early days, and finally, 4) before any start and after each end, a block of loneliness that pervades everything to the next. Funny how personal Nothing gets put all these times in reverse order without the clashing relationship process or affected in basics. Another thing is the idea that the film starts, the respective positions of radical and Anna (Lotte Verbeek) and Martin (Stephen Rea) are strong enough to make interesting a drama without the need to emphasize both the story. Curious
experiment in history and story that advances the opposite directions one to another without being affected even improved. The same applies to relations: are separate self-sufficient individuals, but we are matched something very different, sometimes complex, sometimes ineffable, sometimes miserable. Contrasts yet are based on the same basic materials: loneliness, initiation, marriage and final. Do not be around a fifth element to be discovered, something of a dark matter that will help us to reinterpret the present chaos? Was not there a more interesting way of turning it into a movie?
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