I watched the director's cut version, divided into 5 episodes, just like watching a TV series. Very tasty. It's as if the life of a gypsy is unfolding in front of you like a dream. Gypsy-style melody catches the ear and the heart, full of humor and vitality. The way of showing the warmth and struggle of human nature is unique. There is a deep surging beneath the surface of the magic barrier. Reminds me of "Sunny Day" and "The Godfather".
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Beijing Daily/2017/April/18/Page 004
Focus·Beijing Film Festival
Film master Kusturica warned young filmmakers-
Don't make movies into video games
Reporter Chen Tao
News from this newspaper (Reporter Chen Tao) "Many people commented on my film with a touch of sadness." Yesterday, at the post-screening exchange meeting of his film "The Fantastic Life of a Milk Delivery Man", the 63-year-old Serbian film master Emile Kusturica shrugged, spread his hands, and put on a helpless expression. Immediately, he showed a happy smile: "I came to the Beijing International Film Festival without suffering any trauma. I like this country as magical and beautiful as my motherland very much."
Many people attribute him to the style of magic realism, that is, he is good at keeping a distance from reality and opening up reflection. He took his early film "Song of the Wanderer" as an example, "When my country is in the midst of war for many years and peace disappears, it will definitely affect the artist's creation." He said that people often don't know how to solve their own problems. problem, and the path he chose was to "hide" into the movie.
"The biggest enemy of film is naturalism." He made no secret of his distaste for certain Hollywood filmmaking routines. "You can almost see scenes like this in movies. A person drives home, comes to the front of the house, unloads food from the supermarket from the car, walks to the door, kicks the door, asks if anyone is home , then went in and kissed his wife, and finally put the food in the refrigerator. I think this is so boring." Kusturica said that he made the decision to make a certain film, it must be something like family, war or politics. These real questions touched his soul on a deep level. "Like the movie you just watched, you can comment on it in any language, but it's not boring at all." He recalled that a Hollywood distributor once told him that the film "Underground" It was so boring. "I said to him, this movie can be anything, but it's definitely not boring."
When asked how young directors should discover material, his advice is almost casual: "Even if you meet a police officer or walk into a neighborhood, you can find great stories. You just have to be artistic. Reinvent instead of making movies a video game."
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: Today's world situation is very complex and full of drama. The world is on the verge of being forced to reorganize. The countries of the socialist camp have been preaching the threat of a third world war, although I don't think we will face a third world war anytime soon, but the third world war has been in a sense since a long time ago. it has started. It started in Yugoslavia, continued in Romania, then it began to spread to the United Kingdom and the Middle East, and now it ends in Syria—and maybe still going on. In your country's waters, your country has problems with many of its neighbors -- in fact, Western countries, and I can say that interventionism has brought the same drama to you in this way.
So today's world has another symptom, or I prefer to say a sign - that most of human life is exposed to the eyes of the media. Most people's lives are transformed into fictional stories, and these fictional stories appear to be real. Even in our strangest Africa - Africans are not as poor as people think, they can own the most expensive shoes or even an iPhone, and if conditions permit, their lives will be transformed into stories that will spread to other parts of the world one end. So now, most of the people in the world live in an imaginary life, full of red carpets, and all those glamorous people on red carpet shows, and all these bad things are what we preach about human society. greatest achievement.
KU: I strongly believe that we should get things back to the way they are, we have to get back to the right things, to get back to good movies that are polished, to create an atmosphere for young people that will enable them to pursue a good life, not to build those A vibe that only pursues money. Money is the most ignorant aspect of modern civilization, and it is a new god born in the age of the end of the law. People are tempted to spend all their time chasing so-called money, only to find themselves increasingly poor. If you look back, my friend of the President of Uruguay, Mr. Jose Mujica[1] once told me: “They talk about me as the poorest president in the world, but they It's stupid, because poverty is exactly the price we pay for the stupid life we don't have time for." Those who have the most power don't live in "life", they live in their power, they forget that they are What makes life good, what is the most important thing in a person from birth to death. Movies should point to these really important things in life.
KU: You can say that, not only that, but I think filmmakers should try to make more serious films for people, not just make one Iron Man, or Batman, or whatever. , these films are just a symbol of the Hollywood industrial system's intention to control people's lives by taking away their time, rather than letting people get nourishment by watching them.
KU: Yes, I really enjoyed watching the films of these directors, including Fellini and Buñuel. I would say that the things we focus on are often paradoxical, and one of the main goals of modern theatre is the paradox about life, because we all live more or less contradictory lives.
Fellini is one such creator who transitioned from realism to grotesque style. I'm always doing grotesque movies, and every now and then I'm going to do magic realism movies, but I don't really do that because a lot of the movies I do are about gypsies, gypsies life itself Has a strong magical meaning.
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