Farce of life

Tara 2021-12-22 08:01:30

Three years ago, no, four years ago when I was working in a video store, I caught a glimpse of a black cat and a white cat in a bunch of cheap CDs. At that time, I asked the boss what it was? The man who looked very much like Chen Sheng told me: Black Cat and White Cat, a masterpiece by the director of "Underground", Kusturica, didn't care. In high school, I didn't know that such remote directors were immersed in the gimmicks of Wong Kar-wai or Kubrick, pretending to be petty bourgeoisie.

Later, I learned about Kusturica in a film "Universal Textbook" published in Sanlian Bookstore. I was very curious. It was also because I was a fan of Pierre Gennet, admiring his imagination and plot control. Ability, from Black Shop Rhapsody to Angel Emily, it can turn the story of a small person into an adventurous passionate romance, without losing a relaxed narrative style and a happy ending. This is another wonderful state of watching movies. And realm, compared with the obscurity of Antonioni and Godard, he does not need to get purely individual thinking from the hard and painful self-torture, but automatic psychological euphoria, because of a bunch of laurels that have been slapped. , Because I extinguished my own little pig lamp, because of the bathroom like a swimming pool, because of the sound of the violin on the roof...

I have to admit that Kusturica does have some expressions similar to René, but he has changed French elegance and romance into gypsy noisiness, chattering, and absurdity is a weapon for him to express and satirize the world. The dark life and struggle underground, to the chaotic and anarchic village of the black cat and the white cat, the complicated relationship between characters, multiple parallel clues, and gypsy music really make his story full of trouble from beginning to end. It’s a farce that doesn’t detract from all the psychological elements. His movies are “complex” superficially, satisfying the eyes and ears just right, while allowing the brain to move a little bit. Haha, gangsters, robbery, intrigue, golden teeth, Freckles, a pistol for firecrackers, resurrected in three days, the dwarf girl called the little ladybug fell in love with giants, geese, irons, wild unions in sunflower fields...Yes, my mind is also very messy, it's all collaged happiness, All the noisy fragments surfaced without burden, which made people laugh, and imagine that the unruly gypsy turned out to be so interesting. It was truly "colorful", but Kusturica was not messy, black cats and white cats—it seemed to be a lot. The combination of the two-person relationship, the lover, the twilight brother, the deceived and the deceived, the relationship between the two and the mutual connection constitutes this complex slapstick network. Imagine being two lovers and an old man. How interesting it is to get together with enemies, but what I admire is that the director can manage this complex relationship so well, first to disperse and then to reunite, and then finally to extract each pair of relationships from the whole farce. Leaving out to show their respective completions, forming a huge and satisfying happy end, it takes great pains but does not leave any traces, it is amazing.

Life is like a play, and play is like life, but whoever can make life like a movie-like spirit, nerve, noisy, colorful, I will find the huge sow in the first play that constantly eats the car shell, or Inlaid with a gold tooth? what

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  • Matko Destanov: The Bulgarians always say: "Brother, if you can't solve a problem with money... solve it with a lot of money."