Director: Milcho Manchevski
Screenwriter: Milcho Manchevski
Starring: Reid Spadjanga
Year of release: 1994 Language: Macedonian / English / Albanian
Producer Country/Region: Macedonia/United Kingdom/France
Also known as: The Rain is Coming/The Rain Before the Rain Forces
to Write a Review. After watching the movie, it's just a subjective feeling, and I went to check the information. It really is so much trouble for this poor country. Even his own name is not recognized now. The Greeks used the power of their ancestors to apply for a patent for the name of Macedonia, and did not use it for this small country. Of course, there are too many political and historical reasons here, so why bother me here. I only know how I feel, and I am only responsible for how I feel.
This is the suffering of the nation at the time and place of suffering, so that suffering can blossom into the flower of war to the extreme. Section one, words. The opening music is distinctive, and it incorporates the rich syllables of the Middle East in a European flavor, which has never been heard before. The scenery is very shocking, whether the disaster-prone nation can also paint the scenery with a deep taste. It begins with a dialogue between the old priest and the little priest with sensitive eyes who swore silently: the rain is coming, and the flies are biting people. At first glance, if it is designed to have a warning, I feel a little cold, afraid that it will not break away from the cliché. The shooting of Mao Mao was violent enough, and the plot was tense enough. Then let the Muslim Albanian girl die by her brother's gun, and in front of the former priest's lover who believes in the Orthodox Church, the first section is over.
Section two, faces. In busy London, the girl editor who looked smart and refined even had a picture of the Macedonian boy in front of the Albanian girl who was killed, I wondered. Then the Macedonian photographers showed up to tie the story together. Then again violence, and death again. The woman hugs the blown-up face of her husband who was about to break up, and the second quarter ends.
Section three, photos. What is it like when everyone has a gun? The smell of gunpowder is not only in the air, but is it even in the rice? There must be a lot of stories in places where ethnic groups live together, and I think of Urumqi in film. The depth and difficulty of interracial love is what it is like. The film does not explain it further. We only see the love between the failed photographer and the Muslim woman and the love between the failing former priest of the Orthodox Church and the little Muslim girl. The violence came again, this time it was the Macedonians who shot their outstanding photographer, the photographer told the little Albanian girl to run, the little girl ran to the church, the Macedonian boy was still wearing the holy clothes, the old priest said to the boy : The rain is coming, and the flies are starting to bite. Then there was the funeral. The photographer was buried, and his lover also came from London. He was in pain from a distance. At this time, the movie had some meaning, and the looping movie lost its logic. If the little girl ran to the church to answer the first story at the beginning, then the photographer was already dead. Where did those guys get the pictures in front of the little Albanian girl's body, and the photographer didn't return until after the incident happened. When I came to my hometown, why, what happened, what happened, if several people watched it together, they would definitely look at each other, and then I understood the director's intention. Do you feel absurd, yes, it is to make you feel absurd, because of these violence, shooting your own relatives, the resulting war is the most absurd thing in the world. There was nothing shocking when I saw it at the time, but the surprising handling was memorable. The most realistic result is wanting to visit Macedonia.
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