The Balkans has always been called the "powder barrel of Europe." The assassination of Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 became the fuse of the First World War, and the assassins were from Bosnia. 19-year-old student Gavrillo Principe.
The Balkan Peninsula and its people have been plagued by disasters in history. After hundreds of years of rule by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the countries on the Balkan Peninsula became independent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and after being ravaged by German artillery in World War II. On November 29, 1945, the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was unified and renamed as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In fact, this Yugoslavia is a federation composed of several small countries including Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (bosnia and Herzegovina), and Macedonia. The ethnic groups mainly include Serbian, Albanian, Montenegrin, and Hungary Ethnic and Muslim ethnic groups. If you have studied world history and paid attention to world news, then you will be able to know and think about why it is called a powder keg. For decades, the vendetta among Serbs, Albanians, and Muslims has never stopped. Milcho Manchevski, the director of the film "Before The Rain", is a Macedonian American. He may have been born in the womb after graduating from an American university. A heavy imprint of his own nation and the history of the Balkans, his debut work was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 1994 Venice Film Festival and the 67th Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. If a war, natural and man-made calamities are regarded as disasters, then endless ethnic conflicts, wars, and vendettas continue like an out-of-round circle. Why should it be called?
The story is divided into three paragraphs and told separately. The location changes from Macedonia to London and then back to Macedonia. The three paragraphs are independent and have a strange connection. Please allow me to use the word strange because it seems that time and space are confused. . .
1. Word: The title of the first paragraph is "Speech", and the protagonist Kilu is a Serb Orthodox monk who has made a "dumb wish". At the beginning of the film, Kilu was picking tomatoes on the hillside, and the sky was full of thunder and clouds, and the bishop murmured from the side: It's going to rain. Sure enough, trouble came. An Albanian Muslim girl sneaked into the monastery because she killed a Serb man in a neighboring village and was hunted down by a group of Serb militants. As night fell, Kelu was preparing to go to bed in the dark room, but suddenly found a pair of oily eyes in the darkness watching him, it was the Mu girl Samira. Kilu didn’t speak, and he didn’t understand Sammyra’s language. Although he couldn’t communicate, Kilu sent tomatoes to Samira friendly and acquiesced that she could stay overnight. She hid in the corner vigilantly, thinking Kilu started eating tomatoes slowly after he fell asleep, while Kilu, who pretended to be asleep, smiled kindly in the dark. Soon the bishop found the girl and asked Kilu to take the girl away. Kilu plans to take the girl to seek refuge with his uncle who works as a photographer in London: Alexander Kikov. The two thought that they could spread their wings and live a happy life, but they were driven by Samira’s tribe. The Muslims would never allow Samira to fall in love with Serb Orthodox Christians and threatened Kilu to let him leave. Kilu Three steps helplessly, she moved her head back and forth, reluctant to give up to Sammyra, and Sammyra finally broke out and ran towards Kelu. Helplessly, Sammyra’s brother buckled the trigger of the submachine gun behind her, Sammy. La answered to the end, only the breath that came out was no more breath. Kilu looked at her sadly and wiped the dirt off her forehead, and Samira said the last sentence: I love you.
2. Faces: Alexander-Kikov received a call from a young man who claimed to be Kelu in his London studio. He was looking for his uncle Alexander, and Samira was helpless in the photo on the studio table. Having been beaten into a sieve on the ground, Kilu sat calmly and sadly on the suitcase. The first thing Alexander did when he returned to London from the former southern region was to find his lover and colleague Annie to marry him. Alexander came to work in London from Macedonia a few years ago. After shooting a large number of photographs of the war in the former Yugoslavia, he won the Pulitzer Prize, but at the same time he also wanted to bring Annie back to his hometown. And Annie is a married woman, she is in a difficult situation to choose, whether to return to her husband Nick, who is estranged day by day, to restore her old life, or to leave her marriage to Alexandria. But at this time Annie was pregnant with Alexander's child. She made the choice to divorce Nick. The negotiation was conducted in a small restaurant. Annie told the whole story. Nick only asked to be back with Annie, and the others didn't care. When Annie was once again in a difficult decision-making situation, a foreigner who had previously provoked in the restaurant returned to the restaurant with a gun and shot at the crowd. Annie found Nick under the table. He was shot in the face and beaten with a wrong nose, eyes, and mouth. I'm already breathless.
3. Pictures: Alexander returned to his hometown of Macedonia alone. The warm hospitality of the tribe and the admiration of Alexander by the children made him feel the warmth of the family. However, there are turbulent waves hidden in the calm: people in the neighboring villages are all Muslims, and the two villages seem to be in the eyes of a storm, and perhaps a moment of tranquility is about to be broken by gunfire. Alexander came to the neighboring village to visit his first love, Hana, who, as a Muslim, could no longer face her former Serb boyfriend. At the same time, Alexander’s tribe met Hana’s daughter Samira and wanted to commit violence, but was killed by Samira. The Serbs caught Samira and locked him in the pigpen. Hana came to Alexander again to beg for help. Freeing Samira, Alexander rescued Samira despite the opposition of his tribe, but he was also beaten into a sieve by his own tribe, and Annie, who hurried from London, saw only Alexander's grand funeral. Sammyra, who was rescued, ran to an Orthodox monastery for her life. Half a mountainside below the monastery, Kilu was picking tomatoes, and the bishop murmured from the side: It's going to rain. . . . .
A sentence recurring in the film: Time is never die, The circle is not round. Time will never die, the circle is not round. At the beginning I watched it again and didn’t understand it because the circle drawn in the film was not round and it was not sealed: the beginning and the end of the film used the same bridge: Samira ran to the monastery, Kilu picked tomatoes, and the bishop committed Mentally muttered to himself, and Alexander died in order to save Samira, how could he take another picture of Samira being beaten to death by his brother? In terms of the sequence of the film, it is impossible for Alexander to appear in the second and third paragraphs. Such a misplaced logical relationship is easy to make people confused. It is like: God is omnipotent, so ask: Can God find a stone that he can't lift?
The beginning and the end of the film are connected, and the middle is linked in a time and space disorder. Anyone who wants to interpret it will keep turning inside and find no exit, and finally understand that this is a nation without a destination. war. Every director has a desire to talk, and this director Milcho Manchevski is no exception. His hometown is already devastated, and the disaster will continue. In the 1990s, the two countries of the Aryan German nation, the Democratic Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany, were separated by a high wall. Compared with the national unity, this wall is like tofu, completely unable to stop the advance of the people. On the other hand, in the Balkans, even if they are collectively called a federal state, the wheels of history will still run over mercilessly, pushing people of different ethnic groups and languages on the peninsula into an abyss that cannot be restored. Narrow nationalism has completely occupied people's hearts. Under the urging of this force, people will not hesitate to shoot bullets at their loved ones. Samira and Alexander, two people who are obsessed with love, are in the eyes of their relatives regretful. Fell, and their deaths intensified national hatred. This is an endless cycle, starting with hatred. As people pass on from generation to generation, one must learn how to hate and how to kill. You will never be able to see the color of heaven here, which is far more terrifying than hell.
What is religion? Religion is not the same as belief. It is the product of human spiritual society solving its own problems. Its emergence has solved some people's mental health problems, but it has brought hatred and war to more people.
The shot of Samila falling in a pool of blood reappeared. Every time I saw this place, I would burst into tears, especially when Samila's throat was sobbing that I love you. However, seeing this again this time, I am very calm, and I feel the despair that has tightened my whole body: Love can no longer save it, because this is a fate, a reincarnation.
Time is never die, The circle is not round.
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