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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  • Erling 2022-03-24 09:02:16

    Multipurpose hall 2014.5.14.3:15pm Revolutionary evergreen in the basement. Even if socialism dies, the problems that socialism tries to solve (the underground where Ivan went all the way from Germany: poverty, war, immigration, etc.) will still exist. And the last country whose capital is Belgrade no longer exists, split into floating islands. But in the end there is some kind of hope, so maybe it's both an elegy and a new life.

  • Chad 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    After watching Kusturica's "Underground", I watched the five-hour director's cut version (blind image quality), which is really good. Turn all the memories and memories of a country into symbols, and connect historical events in an absurd and crazy style. A maddening song, but behind the madness is endless confusion and nostalgia, and behind the absurdity is endless sadness. The carnival banquet continues, but there is no Yugoslavia in the world. 9.4 points★★★★☆

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.