It is said that there is a song called "Black Sunday" which made many people who heard it commit suicide.
When I bought that film, it said "Love in Budapest" on the cover -- the IT man said, "Didn't you buy it earlier" -- people thought it was "Love in Prague". (There seem to be too many movies translated as "Love in a certain city"...)
In fact, the music in this movie moved me the most. Film music is often a hodgepodge of pop, classical, and jazz. . . Many elements. The same is true of this movie, and I still remember the suddenness of the jazz music in it. But what can I say? Even so, the music is still very enduring, even if it is abrupt.
The heroine Ilona in the movie is extremely beautiful, with clear eyes and a curved mouth, a kind of beauty that mixes innocence, frankness and worldliness, a kind of beauty that other women will be jealous of. But I don't understand, what makes two men, two men with "dignity", willing to share the same woman they love deeply? Dignity is often mentioned in the film, but I have not found an explanation that convinces me. Perhaps, the author of this story is too ambitious, he wants to say too many things and tell too many stories, so it becomes a problem to justify it.
This film includes:
1. The story of how the song "Black Sunday" was born
2. The story of the Hungarian people struggling to survive under the Nazis during World War II
3. The story of how "family affection and love" and "richness and handsomeness" coexist
4. The story of a young German who grew from a sheep to a wolf, and then died inexplicably at the age of seventy or eighty
. As a result, I still don't understand. (The title of the movie is "A Song About Love and Death." But what about the story? A story about hate and death?) Well
, it's easier to just enjoy the music. Really good music!
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