Forgetting is because it’s nothing to do, but for those who went through that war in the former Yugoslavia, the pain caused by the war will become a lifelong nightmare even though the war is gone.
Bosnian female director Jasmila Zbanic defeated internationally renowned directors such as Chabrol and Altman with this debut feature film-"Gerbavica", and won the 2006 Berlin Golden Bear. Perhaps this is not considered unpopular. After all, this theme of war and trauma is quite appropriate for the Berlin Film Festival, which has always been sensitive to politics.
The divisions and wars that began in the early 1990s have become a pain in the heart of every Yugoslavian. Kusturica, Tanovic and many former Yugoslav directors all reproduced the war and related things. As a new generation of directors in the former Yugoslavia, Jasmila Zbanic was only a teenager during the war, so she is more concerned about the situation in the former Yugoslavia after the war, that is, the pain caused by the war and how to heal herself afterwards. .
The first shot of the movie is quite thoughtful. The long shot from above is a group of women listening to music with their eyes closed. When the shot is frozen on Esma, the story about her also unfolds, and under the hint of the plot, we know that group Women are victims of the war, and they are undergoing psychological healing. At this time, the long, overhead shot contained more meaning, like the hordes of living beings watched by God. Anyone has a touching and painful experience behind him.
A movie about love and pain, pain is unforgettable, love is also generous and great, the two influence each other, blend, and jointly promote the development of plot and emotion.
The single mother Esma was a victim of that war. The war not only interrupted his studies and killed his father. At the same time, there was also a problem that he had to face all his life, that is, a child who shouldn't be born because she was killed in a prisoner of war camp. Born after being raped by others. In the face of this child, he will also face all the pains of the past.
And under this painful premise, love also appears greater and moving. Just like Esma herself said, she hates the birth of this child very much, which represents all the painful memories that are difficult to erase. But when she held the child in her arms, all the hatred disappeared. Maternal love is always so pure. In order to let her children enjoy the happy time in peace like other children, she weaves a huge lie. She tells her child Sara that her father is a martyr and was in that war. Li gloriously sacrificed. The father who had never met before became the pride of the child's heart, but the mother had to bear the pain alone.
No matter how subtle a lie is, sooner or later, it will be revealed. Children who grow up hope to get more information about their father from their mothers. In the end, because of the "martyr's proof" incident triggered by the school trip, the mother finally couldn't bear it and told everything. The truth is not necessarily a bad thing, whether it is the mother who has been evading from it or the child who lives in lies, after the pain is more understanding and understanding.
The injury caused by war has always been a major focus of the director. For this reason, the film uses a lot of content to describe this kind of injury. There are many very detailed details. For example, when Esma was playing with her daughter, the daughter treated her When she fell down, she immediately became very angry. There is also the dislike of chest hair on the bus and the fright of seeing men and women making each other in a bar. All this is to say that the psychological shadow that war has brought to Esma makes him always have a strong fear and aversion to men, even the man who treats her very well.
While the war brought great pain to the victims, it also had a profound impact on the new generation who had not experienced war. The passage between my daughter Sara and another boy playing in the ruins is my favorite. The scene of the dilapidated building after the war makes people faintly smell the war and adds to the realism of the film. The gun became a toy for the two teenagers, a hint of crisis, and the same single-parent children were more crude in character.
Maybe the director has been engaged in documentary filming work before, or the delicate expression techniques unique to female directors. The film is completely different from the world I have learned in other former Yugoslav movies in the past. Movies are always indispensable for Gypsies, so I often confuse the national character of the former Yugoslavia with the character of Gypsies, that is, in the kind of optimism that is always the same in poor life, although humble, vulgar, and selfish, But it makes people love and sympathize, and dark humor and surreal passages are often important features of the films of the former Yugoslavia. But the film has always adhered to the realism style, and mixed with a large number of lyrical passages, so that the film is always carried out in a sad and lyrical atmosphere, without any laughter scenes. The persistence of this style makes the film lack the usual rough texture of former southern films. Under the tepid plot, the feelings are always calm, and even the most intense episode of revealing the secrets did not achieve the expected shock. Maybe this is the unique style of the director, but to me, it always feels a bit boring.
In terms of actors, Mirjana Karanovic, the queen of Kusturica, is really old, she looks like a middle-aged woman, but she wonders how the man in the film is so desperate for her like her half-aged milf. of. The little actor Luna Mijovic is a rare dazzling eye. I don’t know if it’s a child star that is easy to show off. This little girl who is only fourteen or five years old has a strange wildness on her body, not a sexy wildness, but a tomboy style. The roughness, whether it is the eyes or the movements, is so wonderful. For the time being, treat it as a true performance.
The movie is actually quite exciting. It may be due to the double expectation of Golden Bear and the former southern movie that made me expect too much of the movie. But since "Soap" can win the Berlin Jury Award and Best New Director. This piece of golden bear is nothing strange.
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