Just a story to tell the kids

Krista 2022-03-20 09:02:00

Kusturica built such a skyless city with his extraordinary imagination, the country to which the city belongs, Yugoslavia, will forever exist only in the stories told to children, and this city was once the The capital of the country abandoned by itself and the ruthless European continent.
Laughed at the development of this Fellini comedy, and cried at the end of the heart-wrenching relentless orgy. The country used to be and will always be so beautiful, but the motherland has been unbearable to look back at the dawn of the moon. I
remember at the end of the carnival, in the lonely land that gradually drifted away from the European continent, Ma Gao came with Natalie and asked Hei Zai. Forgiving himself, Hei Zai replied: "I can't forgive, but I can forget". The people of this land in the past and in the future cannot forgive each other. They used to be close comrades and brothers like Ma Gao and Hei Zai, but now and in the future, all they can do is to forget each other's grievances and grievances in their dreams. , Let the joy of the past go to enjoy the carnival in the memory.
In "Underground", almost every time Ma Gao and Hei Zai meet, they are accompanied by the small brass band. The two of them drank spirits in the band's performance and carried out the "revolution" unscrupulously. . Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the German army, Ma Gao played the song "Ausencia" calmly, and took Natalie from then on. The civil war began, the carnival music was gone, Ma Gao's son and daughter-in-law died, Ivan He discovered his elder brother Ma Gao's conspiracy and killed his own elder brother. "It is a war when brothers and sisters are miserable." Since then, the music has completely changed, the lively wind music has disappeared, and replaced by the sacred, peaceful and sad religious chorus, weeping. Telling the unforgivable sins of this tragic land. At the end, the brass band who accompanied Ma Gao and Hei Zai to fight during World War II and the Cold War once again played the main theme - a lively gypsy dance. Friends who turned against each other happily sang and danced together. As if hatred and killing had never happened here, in everyone's willing imagination, the land that carried their revelry gradually drifted away, farther and farther away from the European continent and this earth.

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Extended Reading
  • Green 2022-03-24 09:02:16

    The advantage of formalism is that it can abandon all the constraints of reality and develop infinite fantasies. Director Kusturica uses magical realism to interpret the absurd comedy into the bitter epic of the Yugoslav nation. A work of almost impeccable genius aside from the exaggerated exaggeration and raucousness of the first hour. The handling of the division of the continent at the end is the best ending I have ever seen: people forgive and forget in laughter, only to be farther and farther away from their own country.

  • Annetta 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    This film is too powerful, imaginative and purposeful. It's fun to watch, laugh and think. The ending is really warm, although if you think about it carefully, the warmth is just the warmth of "as long as you wish to imagine that each other is still in front of you". The band is still full of ears now. What about the music.

Underground quotes

  • Ivan: Bila jednom jedna zemlja. Once upon a time... there was a country...

  • Marko: A war is no war until the brother kills his brother.