The Firemen's Ball

By Darrion 2022-12-16 12:20:07

[Last Film I Watched] The Firemen's Ball (1967) 7.3/10

Milos Forman's third feature THE FIREMEN'S BALL is the last film he made in his motherland and Oscar-nominated in the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM category (lost to USSR's mammoth WAR AND PEACE made by Sergei Bondarchuk). It is an outright comedy masked with mordant mockery of the Communist party, the story takes place on the day when the titular ball is held to honor an 86-year-old...

By Arely 2022-09-06 19:39:04

"Firemen's Ball": This is not a simple party, this is a great socialist party!

From dinner parties and group tours in large institutions, to group building and annual meetings in small companies, the party activities of each unit seem cheerful and relaxed to employees, but in fact, the test is no less than the execution of tasks. The members participating in the event are all Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. You can't be casual to anyone, but you can't...

By Angela 2022-09-06 04:30:13

Everyone is a thief

An annual dance, a beauty contest with no one on stage, a sudden fire that failed to rescue, a fundraiser that everyone stingy, a group of incompetent firefighters, all the villagers are thieves. Criticizing any detail in the movie to make in-depth criticism will be rewarded. Unlike the impossibility of Soviet Korea and other countries, in Eastern Europe the only possible and safe way to tell the distortions of the system and the misfortunes of characters in a moderated way is comedy. Czech...

By Krista 2022-06-29 22:26:48

bitter joke

The film is very absurd and very real, and the truth reveals that I am unwilling to face the ugliness that I am unwilling to accept. A joke connected to another is a replica of life.

Yesterday, Teacher Xiaobao assigned a homework to find two "meaningful" jokes, so there are the following ones:

1: The most mixed slogan

In the 1992 U.S. presidential election, Clinton challenged Republican President...

By Frieda 2022-06-29 19:48:16

Communist Characteristics

After all the chaos, the different people under this social nature looks goes back, the chairman still make that prepared speech and the poor man still sleeps on the same bed, nevertheless the speech has no audience or gift to present, the bed has no house to cover, it still maintains the original looks but just so ridiculous and sick.


      Satirical points.

    The formalistic ceremony which requires ostentation and extravagance.
    This communist society cares...

By Hazle 2023-09-30 09:46:26

The satire of centralization is easy to think of, but it is precisely because of the existence of centralization that the expression of the film is extremely obscure. When the people no longer regard being recognized by the authority as an honor, but as a shame, when the people begin to use the destruction of authority as a way to vent their anger, such a country is bound to have problems in some aspects, and the poor guy at the end falls asleep in the snow The old man seems to be conveying...

By Janessa 2023-09-20 15:16:25

Milos Foreman Part Three. I don't see realism in it, only deliberate absurdity and raw irony. The look and feel of this movie is very similar to the "beauty pageant" in it. There are two girls (scheduling/designing) who are quite pretty, but the others are more or less hot-eyed, and I don't know the greasy old men (… ) In the climax, is it trying to show some kind of sexual repression, the plot of Bibi's wedding banquet, is this too boring. Similarly, the design of stealing prizes, fighting...

By Lia 2023-08-22 16:50:32

[Poly EU Film Festival] A downright absurd farce. What was supposed to be a grand-sounding dance, beauty pageant, lottery, firefighting, fundraising, and commendation all ended in ironic failure. Human nature's greed, ignorance, lustful and wicked nature, and a strong bureaucratic style are all in sight. Those who do good will have no good results, and those who do evil will only survive. Surprised that in the era of socialist Czechoslovakia, there is still such a "non-positive and...

By Zander 2023-08-06 02:33:48

Beer, girl, horny old man. In Eastern Europe during the communist era, political allegory was everywhere. Foreman eventually made the leap to the madhouse, to a country where he could really do whatever he wanted with film, and became one of the most successful foreign directors in American history. This work from the Czech period has already made people see the potential of the...

By Hannah 2023-08-01 20:53:55

Foreman made comedy in the Czech Republic. Many elements have appeared in the previous three works that can be seen. The difference is that this time it was very ironic, and naturally it was warmly touted by the "free world" on the other side of the Cold War. The grand scene is already very skillful (compared to the first three dance parties). In addition, the film is the closest Foreman has come to the audiovisual style of the Czech new wave (not so neoreal...