The beginning of the film was a carnival. The drunken friends Magao and Peta indulged in a carnival. It seems that Yugoslavia is in a peaceful and prosperous era, but soon reality was disrupted by the war. World War II broke out, and people's lives were a piece of cake. Chaos, you can only avoid fighting in the underground world and engage in real underground work. The real absurdity happened after the war. When the war ended, Ma stood above the head and became a high-level figure, and he just took his beloved woman Natalie to enjoy it all on the ground. What he gave to Peta and other friends was a lie, a lie. The war is still going on, letting friends continue to produce arms underground. In this way, while local friends are indulging in their great dedication to fighting the invaders, Magao sells arms and becomes a wealthy arms dealer. Magao is a complicated character in the film. He appeared very brave in World War II. He assisted his friends in "robbing" the beloved woman and risked the rescue of Peta. But the seemingly shrewd former playwright and postwar poet is speculative, and when victory comes, he still wants to leave his friends underground. For him, this is undoubtedly the maximization of interests. By leaving Peta underground, he can fall in love with his beloved Natalie at ease; by leaving his friends underground, he can turn his friends’ patriotism into arms. By keeping her friends underground, she can spread the deeds of her comrades-in-arms to gain political capital for herself. He triumphantly observes the lives of underground people from the ground, and laughs from time to time as if watching a soap opera. Perhaps this feeling of dominance is also something he likes to enjoy.
Natalie is also a complicated character, giving the impression of speculation. Sometimes she fell in love with Peta, who was rude but full of heroism, and sometimes could not stop the rebellious officer who held power, and finally devoted herself to the "Tai Hui". Ma Gao, who lied, became the wife of a heroic hero. She appears naive and sophisticated, delicate and vulgar. However, after watching the film, it is difficult for us to blame her. In Yugoslavia, which has almost never been peaceful, as a weak woman, this seems to be the last resort to survive. Just as Marko said to Natalie on the eve of liberation, "The Germans are gone, and the Allies are coming." On this continent, it seems that the world is always dominated by others. The Germans are gone, and the Soviets. Here comes; the Soviets are gone, and the peacekeeping forces are here. Nazism is gone, communism is here; communism is gone, capitalism is here; World War II is gone, and the cold war is here; the cold war is gone, and the civil war is here. Yugoslavs are always in a turbulent age. They have to abandon something to survive. As a Yugoslavia, Kusturica understands his compatriots, and only those Yugoslavs who have truly experienced the insecurity brought about by the turbulence can Describe such a contagious way of survival.
Peta is a character in the film who gives people a strong sense of sadness. He appears to be very vulgar. He seems to be only pursuing money, women, and alcohol. However, such vulgar people are often pure and persistent in their beliefs. Just like his revolutionary pride, he led the people in the production of arms for the liberation of Yugoslavia, but could not suppress the passion for fighting on the ground and fighting for national liberation. Finally, he brought the child to the ground, but he could only fight against the imaginary enemy who made the World War II movie. What is more ironic is that this is a movie about him. The person in the play suddenly turns from fiction to reality, just like his own destiny. He walked from underground fiction to reality on the ground, but he was faced with a fictional scene, and he was happy in it. Such a life is undoubtedly sad. What is even more tragic is that his child, the child born underground, finally saw the landscape on the ground for the first time. He couldn't even distinguish the moon from the sun, horse and deer, but soon died in the river, seeing the ground. In this world, the child smiled so innocently, but when he was caught in the dangerous situation in the water, his father was still busy "killing the enemy" under the revolutionary pride, but he sank underwater and sank into another world with his newlyweds.
This is the fate of several Yugoslavs and the epitome of the Yugoslav nation. They are not the masters of the world on earth. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Third Reich, and the Soviet Union successively conquered here. The repeated "liberation" made the Yugoslavs a little numb, because they His fate has not changed. Just like in the background of the scene of Tito’s death, it turned out to be the well-known "Lily Marien" in World War II. It will be unfamiliar), as if to continue to play this tune to the comrades who had been killed in the underground world by the escaped Ma Gao, reminding them that the times have not changed much, and World War II is still going on. Finally, Ma Gao’s younger brother Ivan, who walked out of the underground in the accident, got the truth in the mental hospital. He only knew that his brother had been creating a lie. He was unable to face the cruel reality brought to him by the world on the ground. He wanted to go back underground. Returning to the simple world of revolutionary pride, but again received news of the split of the country, "Yugoslavia is gone", the soldiers of the peacekeeping force said lightly, but once again hit Ivan's mind. Finally, in the chaos of the battlefield, Ivan, who returned to the war-torn Yugoslavia, beat his brother to death half to death, and then committed suicide. He apparently knew the truth and became a warlord Peta ordered to kill all the captured ones. The arms dealer's order found that it was the former comrade Magao and the beloved woman Natalie who had killed him. Then he returned to the ruins of the abandoned underground world in a trance, and fell into the pit to death. If the movie has an absurd touch of comedy in the front, then it is a completely sad tragedy here. Kusturica seems to be unable to bear it. Under the well that Peta fell into, the comrades-in-arms back then They were together and loved each other again. In the sun, they forgot the grievances and sorrows and continued the lively celebration. This time, it was on the ground of an illusory world, the sun was shining, singing and dancing, and there were no more wars and lies. Even the stuttering Ivan was fluent in monologues, narrating a beautiful life scene, houses, green fields, spacious gates, beautiful nature, without pain and sorrow. However, this is still just an illusory world on earth, and the dead are already underground. Just like Ivan’s last words, “You can’t tell children like this, there was a country somewhere in the past.” With the final monologue, the land on which people singing and dancing are stepping split from the mainland and floats to an unknown distance. This is also Yugoslavia’s. Fate, there is no Yugoslavia on the ground, and the stories of the past have been buried underground. Perhaps that sad story should no longer be told to the children. Let the people revel in the divided land and enjoy the sunshine of the world on earth.
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