I have always felt that this movie is not just a ridiculous and carnival story, but more like a political satire. The black sow symbolizes the bureaucracy and rigid system of the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries in Eastern Europe. How long can it live?), and the scrapped car symbolizes the society and economy of the Soviet satellite countries in the Balkans that were rebuilt after the war, and the goat symbolizes dear General Secretary Gorbachev. . As for the geese, they are ordinary working people.
[The first appearance in the film: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."] The
film is indeed set in Bulgaria, which can be seen from the Bulgarian flag that appears several times in the film. Reminiscent of Bulgaria’s history after World War II to the present, it can be seen that at the beginning of World War II, Bulgaria joined the German-Italian-Japanese Axis Group for self-protection. The spokesperson of the Communist Party in Bulgaria has entered the stage of history. At this time, Bulgaria still has a certain degree of autonomy. The Soviet puppet state that was truly reduced to almost complete form was still after Todorzhvkov came to power in 1954. Bulgaria became a loyal fan of the Soviet Union for the next 35 years until the resignation of Zivkov in the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe in 1989. Thirty-five years before this, the old Gurga said: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." The friendship mentioned in. And this friendship, seemingly beautiful and intimate, is suffocating and repressive, just as the villain Dadan forced Zara to marry his ugly sister. By the way, Zara's father, the cowardly and incompetent gambling-loving Matt Gao, was precisely the incarnation of the Communist Party preservation under the leadership of Todor Zhivkov.
[Reappears at the end of the film: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."]
When Zara and his sweetheart finally embarked on a love journey freely with the help of the resurrected grandfather and Galga, when Zara's grandfather and old Galga clinked glasses, the old Galga said that sentence again. Line: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.". Before this, the incarnation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union-the villain Dadan fell into the pit, stinking unspeakable, and everyone betrayed (thanks to that goat-dear Comrade Gorbachev). The background of the times is that Bulgaria, like some other Eastern European countries and CIS countries, was temporarily hesitated and confused after the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, but it quickly fell to the West-although Bulgaria had not joined NATO at the time of the filming. , But the god Kusturica and even ordinary people can probably see that Bulgaria’s accession to NATO (2004), the European Union (2007), and the Schengen Agreement (2012) is only a matter of time.
Kusturica does not only focus on the motherland of Yugoslavia, or the neighboring country Bulgaria, but also the dynamic relationship between times, nations, countries, and the future. Of course, it also includes the small ordinary people in that background. Life changes.
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