The director expresses his contempt for war in a playful way. He does not use bloody pictures to show the cruelty of war, but only through the sound of rumbling cannons, falling walls, and ruined homes. He used a lot of lighthearted and witty music and absurd carnival scenes. He paid more attention to human nature and the pursuit of freedom than to war.
For the sake of the country's ideals, the hero Luca forced his wife to leave the stage he loved and thousands of fans. His son gave up his life in the city center and came to a remote and sparsely populated Bosnian mountain village. For this reason, his wife suffered from a serious mental illness and was unhappy. The son is also far from the dream of entering the national team. However, these did not shake Luka's ideals. Even when his son received the notice of his favorite team and the notice of enlistment at the same time, Luka still ignored the emotions of his wife and son and helped his son make the decision to join the army. So stubborn, it is his consistent principle to give up the ego for the big picture. However, after his wife left and his son was captured, he was in a state of anxiety. In an unexpected opportunity, he obtained a gift - a Muslim girl with a high status in the Bosnian family - Sabah, who was originally intended to be a hostage in exchange for his son, but they After living together for a period of time, they found that they couldn't leave each other. This love that transcended the racial conflict and the affection of his son put Luca in a dilemma in choosing. His friend - Captain's friend Alexich once warned him: this is not your own war, this is someone else's war, it is a war of scum, not yours and not mine.
What the director hopes to express is that war has nothing to do with civilians, and when ideological conflicts and ethnic conflicts are refined to everyone, whether it is the former mayor who was greedy but was assassinated for refusing to pay bribes and smuggling, or the famous hostile nation. The girl Sabaha, or the captain's friend who hid the fact of the war from Luca, is actually a true, kind and beautiful person with flesh and blood. Political conflicts should not be borne by the common people. The common people sacrificed their families, their property, their environment, their homes, their nature, their love, their freedom, and they had nothing left, but for the sake of a war of others, for the greed and interests of others The director pays for the conflict. The director is denouncing this kind of war and politics that go against human nature, so he set up an obstacle for Luca in the plot of the hostage exchange. When the two sides failed in the end, he also set up a hope, that is, Luca After the family reunion, under the guidance of the captain's friends, after painful thinking, he finally chose to give up the constraints of his thoughts and follow his heart to pursue freedom and true love.
In the director's ode to love, we cannot ignore an important role - the female donkey Mirica, who appears at the beginning of the film as a lovelorn who is trying to commit suicide in the middle of the railway, no matter in any way. Unable to stop her determination, when Luca finally blew a political song that should be a barracks or a march, she turned around and ran away, and the director used details to show his contempt for politics. Milica often appears in front of the camera of love. Every time she witnesses the scene of steadfast love, she is always there. When the hero and heroine are in love, she follows excitedly. She was shot and injured by her compatriots in Sabah. She was waiting outside the door when she was rescued with all her strength; in the hostage exchange scene hosted by the United Nations, she appeared at the scene untimely, blocking the bridge of the hostage exchange, a soldier could not pull her, the rope was broken, strong The soldier fell to the ground, and he still couldn't pull it with two, what a bitter innuendo! She is the symbol of love, and the soldier is the symbol of hypocritical politics. In the competition for power, the director ruthlessly put politics aside, which also paved the way for the final outcome. Block the speeding train. In the end, Luca and his beloved rode on the donkey of love and went into the distance. In the director's view, nothing can stop love.
The director's jokes about politics are also shown in the bears that originally ran out of Croatia due to the civil war and came to Serbia to kill people randomly; people often habitually slip out Tito's quotations in their daily life; when the new mayor took office, Luca's singing When my wife performed a noble model show, she used extremely comical and exaggerated and vulgar dance moves; the peace dove resting on the barrel of a tank heading to the front line; when exchanging hostages, reporters who interviewed the hostages according to political sensational routines, When asked "Would you like to sacrifice your life for the freedom of Bosnia", Luka's son Milosh responded with Hiccup's absurdity and so on. The director used a lot of metaphors to satirize war and politics, and stop using lies and formatting to deceive sincere and kind people. Under the special system of the past, to borrow the words of the protagonist Luca: Wisdom advances year by year, but mind keeps going backwards.
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