A portrait of the crisis of masculinity or the self-destructive digging of Kamila Fila? The documentary Force escapes easy answers

Kamila Filu is known to almost everyone who is interested in film in the Czech Republic or who watches discussions on social networks. The author of this text had the opportunity to follow his author’s career from the very beginning. Even when Kamil was a film student, he showed considerable intellectual insight and, above all, the ability to look at things anew, without the filters that society and majority opinion give them. But is the Force a documentary about Kamil Fila? The author Martin Mareček, a two-time holder of the Czech Lion, claims that Síla is a highly author’s work, so it is more about Mareček than Fi. It’s my film, not Kamil’s, he repeats, but the audience doesn’t listen to him much.

At the first good thing in that film, the viewer sees an honest documentary about a character who is famous and controversial in the world of the Internet, a kind of her psychological profile, a look behind the backstage of Fiol. The film shocks with the discrepancy between how the critic presents itself to the public and how it is captured by the camera in private. Outwardly