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"Live as you can, you can't live as you want."
Alana 2022-11-30 03:27:21
More than a hundred years ago, in Romania, in black and white, a policeman was hired to bring his son's assistant to hunt down a gypsy slave who had an affair with a noble wife. Each character is gradually understood in the process of narrating the story: from time to time there will always be golden sentences of the old lame policeman with a sick body to chase after him, desperately for the day when his son can succeed; Studying police skills is very interesting, but still can't resist the temptation of entertainment projects; imagine that I might have slaves of my own children next year; and ridicule priests, foreigners, bribed police, prostitutes, innocent little slaves, black-hearted nobles... all kinds of people And so on, combined with the length of the lens, painted this vivid picture of Romanian style on horseback with distinct classes. Although most of the time in the film is brisk and joyful, it still can't bear the short-term reality blow at the end. The weak confess their status, the powerful do whatever they want, and the common people live on hope. Nearly two centuries have passed, mankind has still not been able to stop. "Live as you can, you can't live as you want."
Extended Reading
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Costandin: Lifeless out of life, life out of lifeless.
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The Priest: Each nation has its purpose. The Jews, to cheat, the Turks, to do harm, us Romanians to love and suffer like Christ. And each has their habits. Hebrews reads a lot, Greeks talks a lot, Turks has many wives, Arabs has many teeth, Germans smokes a lot, Hungarians eats a lot, Russians drinks a lot, English thinks a lot, French likes fashion a lot, Armenians are lazy, Circassians wears much lace, Italians lies a lot, Serbians cheats a lot, Gypsies get beaten! Gypsies must be slaves.