When Radu Mihaileanu was in his twenties, he worked in a Yiddish theater in Romania (I thought Yiddish was extinct, but Comrade Ceausescu let it exist), and in the early 1980s, he went to France to study film. Years of chores, after becoming a sidekick, he became famous in the 1990s (real gold always shines!). His famous work, "Le train de vie" (Le train de vie), tells the story of the villagers in a Jewish village in Central Europe before the arrival of the Nazis. They decided to disguise themselves as a group of German military vehicles escorting the Jews, and started their adventure to Israel. They finally hit the road. After many dangers, they finally encountered another group of people and vehicles just like them. It turned out that the other party was Gypsies who also wanted to escape. The whole story is absurd and extremely humorous. Mihaileanu ridiculed the radical, financial fanatic, and conservative Jewish compatriots, admired their wisdom and unwillingness, and used a lot of wordplay to turn the tragedy into a comedy of bitterness. Makes people laugh from start to finish. It would be strange if he hadn't been a Jew himself and had not been scolded for being anti-Semitic.
The life train (Le train de vie) uses the humor and self-deprecation unique to the Jews to turn a group of ordinary people into a power of escape when they are dying, and thus inspire a stronger vitality and nostalgia for life. But without the cheap sympathy or sadness of ordinary movies. Everyone's talents are triggered by the desire to survive, their personalities conflict, and their beliefs are exposed. The most capable person in the village was appointed by everyone to dress up as a Nazi officer who was escorting the Jews, but it was difficult for this devout Jew, the accountant, in order to save money, calculated everything for alms, looking for money to repair the broken locomotive, and the young people who went to school in the village became obsessed with communism. , preaching on the escape train, provoking rabbi dissatisfaction. . . . . Anyway, the whole movie is like an absurd modern fable. For example, when someone heard that they had to take the train, they immediately objected: "No, I can't take the train, my wife is sick of the train". The neighbor replied: "Come on, your wife has never taken a train!" The other replied: "So she never takes a train."
At the end of the film, Jews and Gypsies ride on the same life train, heading for their dream hometowns of India and Israel - but the end credits say, "In the end, the life train of life pulls them all into Auschwitz." Ironically, the title of the movie is a literal game in itself. Le train de vie turn means a comfortable or even extravagant way of life. Saying someone's le train de vie means that someone has a very particular life, has fun, does not worry about food and clothing, and has a guaranteed life. of. It can be seen that Radu Mihaileanu's well-intentioned.
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