Blacky, Marko and Natalia, the three of them have sang the same song "you see the sun in the midnight, the moon in the noon" many times, and Jovan excitedly pointed to the bright starry sky and exclaimed "Look Ah, what a beautiful sun"—at such a moment, the "midnight sun" has an exact meaning, so humorous, yet so mixed, so full of bitterness.
This child who does not seem to have inherited the bravery of his father at all, he is the same as the mentally handicapped younger brothers of Ivan and Natalia who have suicidal complexes, and is also a symbol of incompleteness in this land. They are not like the three protagonists. They don't have such arrogant and powerful vitality. They seem to be born incomplete, spiritually or biologically, and more importantly, culturally and nationally psychologically. Jovan pointed to Mingyue’s hand, reminding me of the broken palm in "Landscape in the Fog" and the harsh sentences in Dai Wangshu's pen-although this child, his face always has the sweetness shared by all silly children. Smile, like Emile, like scum, like silly root. And such sweetness, almost without exception, will suddenly die in this beautiful new world.
He is a child born and mutilated on this damaged land, a child born to a mother who lost his mother. His birth was accompanied by death: the death of his mother, and the blood of life and death in this country amidst the flames of war that synchronized with his life. Such Jovan can only survive in the dark underground for the time being, where he can only rely on the blessing of his powerful father, have his sweet smile, and have his young bride. However, he finally "surfed the surface of history" with his father, and finally saw the vastness and beauty of the world above the clear water, and finally sent out such a sincere and innocent compliment, but he was finally buried under the water soon. He didn't even scream, and even the conspiracy hadn't been discovered in time. Maybe he turned into a fish like the lonely child in "White Ship". His beautiful bride swam in front of him in a white wedding dress. Like a woman with a weird premonition in "A Hundred Years of Solitude", she plunged into the bottom of the well with tears. The white gauze in the water was as beautiful as a white strip. Fish, like Ophelia who is sinking while singing songs...
Unlike these two pure "newcomers", Ivan is an old child who has seen this world a long time ago, but he was out of place from the beginning. When he was young, he attempted suicide again and again. Only by escaping in the zoo can he feel warmth and joy. The old man, with gray hair and dull eyes, curled up on the tree like his beloved orangutan Soni. After hearing the doctor's complaint to his brother, he unbearably lifted the manhole cover, uncontrollably re-drilled underground, trying to return to the utopia in his memory, but only saw the crowd rushing to Italy in the crowded carriage. So I went back to the world again, and once again witnessed greater lies and embarrassment. Treating the elder brother who had deceived him, this always weak child burst out with such strong hatred and tyranny, and in the end, for the last time, the child with white sideburns finally succeeded in hanging himself on the roof beam.
At the beginning of the movie, the energetic brother and bright-eyed Ivan proudly looked at his life, but his life was the most completely broken fragment. He was a bigger and more disfigured person than Jovan. Choose such a person to complete the metaphor of "brotherhood", and choose to make Ivan's maniac beat to force Marko's sentence "Only when the brothers start to kill each other, the war will truly become a war"-Kushi How cruel. Only in this way, in that fantasy ending, the child whispered as a bystander, smiling to the audience, smiling to make the children remember "there was a country called Yugoslavia..."-only so. , This last statement finally made me burst into tears.
Not so much Natalia is a symbol of this land, because she is beautiful and charming, but she is bullied, and even happily committed to German officers (just as this land was once conquered by conquerors), I I thought that there was no need to be so limited. It would be better to think that the characters in the movie are all references to Yugoslavia. Outside the protagonist, outside the accusation of brotherhood, national civil war, outside the ridicule of revolution and war, outside of all kinds of indulgence and carnival laughter, these fragile children died one by one in a brave new world. In the air, they are the victims of lies, but they are also the children of the utopia underground. The utopia made by lies, the utopia soaked in deceit, betrayal and insult, the ridiculous and magical underground utopia, has become the only absurd belonging to these motherless sons and brothers. It’s just the radicalness and contradiction of Ku’s, rather than the intensity and contradiction of the conflict on this land, which made the movie amidst the noisy laughter of sentient beings and gave these children such immense sadness and sympathy, but at the same time in the movie. In the second half, in 1992, a doctor drinking coffee slowly laughed and said, "Isn't Communism just a huge cellar?"
This is also the most political aspect of the film. Maybe they once had a mother, maybe they once had a brother, just as Ivan once loved his brother passionately, Marko once yearned for Russia passionately. In this national fable belonging to Yugoslavia, they have never left the shadow of other countries: Russia, Germany, Italy...Marko, Blacky, Natalia, they are thinking of Russian restaurants, Russian theaters, Russian glory and glory; Blacky rushed to the opera stage recklessly, shot the German officer Franz, triumphantly claiming that he was Natalia's husband, and he was the father of Natalia's son; Natalia turned around but fell into Franz's arms again, with the same affection in his eyes; Tito died. , The doctor working for the Germans drank coffee and laughed and talked about "Communism is a huge cellar"; Ivan, who couldn't bear the truth, got into the sewers and tried to return to the utopia where "the united states are united and the people build weapons to overthrow German imperialism." , But discovered that this time the underground crowds are people eager to rush to Italy...
After the disintegration of the socialist camp, the end of the Cold War and the arrival of the post-Cold War era, this fragility that has always drifted between the "East" and the "West" Land, it bid farewell to the Soviet Union, Tito, Minošević, and Yugoslavia. Just as in the other Turkish movie "Uzak", the protagonist photographer's dream was to shoot a movie like Tarkovsky, but in the end he couldn't keep his ex-wife immigrating to Canada. The problem of East and West seems to be consistent. It is a serious problem that has entangled the countries of the "sub-European" region in the post-Cold War era.
The 20th century was the historic defeat of mankind’s pursuit of utopia, the humiliating defeat of mankind’s dream of utopia for thousands of years, the transition period when the banner of criticism and freedom shifted from the East to the West, and the renewal of the concept of East and West. The defined and composed period of turbulence, in this historical background, all the people on this land, all the protagonists in the film, are all equally incompatible. The doctor couldn't wait to get into the car, but Ivan couldn't understand Italy. He returned to the ground and hanged on the roof beam. The speculators Marko and Natalia could no longer go smoothly this time, and were finally put to death in a humble manner. And Blacky actually became a general on the battlefield, this time he really became a revolutionary-but in the not-too-distant future of the film, in our not-too-distant past, we have already seen the shadows of Minošević and Saddam... …Freedom is slavery, and power is justice. In Southern People’s Weekly, it celebrated Saddam’s death in a superficial way with "The Evil Retribution", and it was so joyful to thank the police of the world for eliminating violence and peace, in the context of the post-Cold War era. The author felt a certain pain of aphasia...
There used to be a country called Yugoslavia, once there was a mother called Yugoslavia, and there used to be an older brother called Yugoslavia, but Yugoslavia has been shrouded in war since the beginning of the film However, Yugoslavia was abandoned from the very beginning (such as Jovan's mother), betrayed (such as Ivan), trampled (such as Natalia)... Yugoslavia may be a humiliated mother, perhaps a woman who still sings in the backyard across the river The flower singer may be a tall but humble elder brother, or a child with innocent eyes... However, only Ivan can cry bitterly when he is told that "Yugoslavia no longer exists". For the young Jovan, for the young people of today, Yugoslavia may be an unheard of empty signifier. Once upon a time, there was a country called Yugoslavia. How many children can listen to this unfavorable story told by Ivan in a land that is still full of contradictions and frequent wars? Yugoslavia drifted out of the European continent, separated from Russia and Italy, and only became a floating board floating in the cold ocean water. The group of people singing and laughing didn't even notice it. I can't help but feel resentful, cruel Kusturica, what is the last thing you created, where is the peace? That is clearly even more sorrow.
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