want to talk about "collage", "political pop", I have never seen anyone better than director Kusturica in "Underground". Play more adeptly in. At Tito’s funeral, Arafat, Brezhnev, and Hua Guofeng filed past. The background music seemed to have forgotten to change. It was still "Lily Marlene", ironic? Isn't it ironic? The ghost knows.
Yugoslavia, this is an unhealed ulcer in Europe. The former Yugoslavia court of war criminals was still there, but Minošević died first-not long ago, someone sent a letter to seek justice for him*. But who owes justice to the former Yugoslavia? Who should pay back? This is a bad debt.
This bad debt can only be portrayed so sad and not promiscuously, magical and magnificent only with such a big hand in the movie "Underground".
During World War II, two friends, Ma Gao and Hei Zi, who were also Communist guerrillas, in order to resist the Nazis' invasion of their common home and women, how should I say, fight back. After a frantic fight like "Escape from the Tiger’s Mouth", Ma Gao rescued the black boy, but took him and his entire gang of comrades (including Ma Gao’s brother, the zoo keeper and his orangutans that had been blown up, and Nairobi. Thalia’s younger brother in a wheelchair) is placed in the cellar; Natalia stays on the ground for his exclusive use. Victorious, Ma Gao, Tito's comrade-in-arms, former playwright and poet, became the "party and state leader"; his wife is Natalia, a frivolous former actor. They travel freely in the new country: participating in the military parade, opening a speech for the "sacrificed" bronze statue of the black boy, attending the launching ceremony of the black boy biographical film,...except for Natalia's greed for things in the cup, and Ma Gao needs high heels to knock His head. Hei Zi and the others were told that the war was not over yet (Ma Gao broadcasted air raid warnings for them from time to time), and they produced guns underground for the "resistance movement"-in fact, they were smuggled and sold abroad by Ma Gao. The clock was moved quickly by Ma Gao's eyeliner, and 20 years was shortened to 15 years-during these "15" years, they even made a tank underground.
The wedding banquet of Hei Zi's son is ominous in the excitement: the bride floating in the air, beautiful and white as Ophelia, the carnival of the underground crowd, and the gathering of three old friends. Hei Zai took the crowd to drink and took his son to the ground, preparing to launch a surprise attack on the dead Nazi; the bride could not find the groom and fell into the well and died; the orangutan got into the tank and fired artillery, blowing up the cellar; the brother Ma Gao searched and escaped all the way The orangutan walked down the sewer to Germany and entered a mental hospital; Markau and Natalia, as mentioned at the beginning of this article, also fled the country in a hurry to continue their arms dealer business.
What a beautiful ground! The deer is a deer, not a horse; the sun is not the moon, it rises red-all this is the first time Hei Zai's son has seen it. They ran into the shooting scene of Hei Zai's biopic. Hei Zai forcefully killed the actor who played the enemy Nazi officer. The director panicked and asked the party cadres who arrived: "Who will protect us art workers?" During the military round up Hei Zi patronized and chased the helicopter, but his inexperienced son was attracted by the drowning bride's veil and went to the bottom of the water.
I don’t know how many years have passed. In the chaos of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Hei Zi is a brutal guerrilla leader who doesn’t know his brain well and doesn’t forget to look for his son, but this time he turned his gun to his former compatriot and now an alien. Enemy.
The war, as Ma Gao's lie insisted, has never ended. However, Ma Gao's brother came back. He found his orangutan and beat his brother who was already in a wheelchair. Then he hung himself on the rope of the bell tower and swayed in the air. Next, there is a scene where Magao and Natalia are executed. Then, the pigs hunted for food between the ruins and the corpse, as they did after the Nazi airstrikes. Heizi then returned to the cellar, walked past the mossy tank, walked to the well that swallowed his daughter-in-law, and plunged in.
He emerged into another world-a paradise of wandering. There is a wife who died of a labor difficulty when he first went to the cellar-still so jealous and bossy, with all the residents in the cellar-including of course his son and his bride, as well as Margo and Natalia. Ma Gao asks for forgiveness, but Hei Zai only wants to forget.
The paradise was broken, and everyone drifted away. The film ends with the noisy jazz brass music throughout the film. Outside the screen, some people say, "Once upon a time, there was a country, and it was called Yugoslavia." The
film contains too many symbols, metaphors, and a thousand threads-such as Orangutans, wells, tanks, and "Lily Marlene"-otherwise, how do you say it is "big-handed"? Here, I will not sort them out one by one. In my impression, French people like to write sewer articles in movies, but none of them can be as dazzling as the film. It is an absurd drama and an epic. The epic is an absurd drama, and everyone is a funny actor in their time.
Don't deplore or grieve Yugoslavia. Its disintegration may not be a new birth, and some countries are still in "fallen". It's just that the fate of the individual is so insignificant relative to the times. Ma Gao is evil? He arrogantly occupy a high position, is greedy for money, and deceived his comrades? But when they stepped on the ground, was it not a scam? After the scam, we witnessed an even more unbearable mess. If Hei Zai is not trapped underground, he might have become a beast that came out of the cage long ago-or he might have been "cleansed" long ago. The people underground is certainly sad-I can't bear to see them "bath" with dripping water during the dark days and nights. However, individuals are usually small and powerless, and there is no essential difference in who, here or there, one way or another. Like the zoo that was blown up at the beginning of the film, before the animals were scattered, the animals had food but not freedom; after that, they had freedom but no food. Can they choose? These are things that I have to go through before moving on to a new life. It can be said that no one owes Minošević a justice-although he is also one of the tragedies left over from the "previous country" of Yugoslavia; as for who owes the former Yugoslavia justice, because the chaos is not over, he has to wait for the future. For the winner-the winner always says whoever is.
It is said that "Slavic" originally meant "slave" and "Yugoslavia" means "slavery of the South." During the Second World War, the Croatian servant army was the "accomplice of the Nazis," but the Croatian Tito was a hero against fascism and the founder of the Yugoslav alliance. He walked the balance beam between the Soviet Union and the West to defend the "independence" of this short-lived country. Suppress "Great Serbianism" at home and maintain the fragile unity of several major nations for decades. After exhausting his own efforts, behind him, the country he created with one hand still cannot escape a ruin and depression. The film was born in this ruin, only self-deprecating, no resentment.
I don't hate Ma Gao, who is slick and cold but still has self-condemnation and poetry, and even admires Natalia, who is frivolous and miserable. They are a kind of rootless soul, and I can forgive everything they do-even without forgetting. And history is all-encompassing on the ground and underground. A deer is a deer, not a horse, a red sun is not a white moon, air strikes are ringing, true or false, the film is filmed in the film, and the old guerrillas return to the ground are still guerrillas, masters of orangutans. Finally found his orangutan, there is a well in the cellar leading to heaven.
Perhaps the director Kusturica was using the high heels "Underground" to give everyone a look, because he was afraid that we would forget, "Once upon a time, there was a country, and it was called Yugoslavia."
On my personal weapon list, "Underground" ranks first in Western movies.
* (Yakov: "May history give you justice-mourning Slobodan Milosevic")
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