"Prague's warm fairy tale. 』

Claudie 2022-01-17 08:02:12

More than a dozen awards including the 1997 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Award and the 1996 Venice Film Festival Honor Award were given to this Czech movie "Kolja" (Kolja), which tells the story of Prague in 1988, the cellist road Ka lost his orchestra job, so he could only make a living by playing accompaniment for the funeral home and repairing tombstones. The embarrassing life allowed him to get rewarded by fake marriage with a Soviet woman. After the marriage, the Soviet woman transferred to West Germany and threw her five-year-old son Korya to Luca to raise. How do the two who can't communicate with each other need to get along? ?
The end of the 1980s experienced drastic changes in Eastern Europe. The political and economic systems of various socialist countries in Eastern Europe have undergone fundamental changes, and the socialist system eventually evolved into a violent turbulence in the capitalist system. In such turbulent times, the attitude of the Czechs towards the Soviet Union was also on the opposite side, because the Soviet army liberated the Czech Republic at that time, but then they stayed there. Most Czechs hate the Soviets in their hearts. In the beginning, the "father and son" were incompatible, Korya didn't speak Czech at all, and Luka didn't speak Russian well. But later, the "father and son" were also getting along but slowly developed a dependence on each other... It
feels like this movie is a bit similar to "Central Station". It is a story of single men and women getting along with their children and having feelings, the same. Underdeveloped countries have the same tenderness. The warmth and the kindness of the little people, the turbulent history can not obliterate the simple things in human nature...
run for a livelihood, enjoy the joy as much as possible in ordinary life, I have seen a few Czech movies, and I feel that they have followed this route, the last time I watched a Czech movie It is "Prague Rhapsody", a surrealist film that also tells the lives of ordinary people. Through the stories of Luca and Korya, the political pressure and environmental dilemmas faced by the Czechs and Soviets of that era are presented. At the national level, this is an invasion and occupation, but at the personal level, it involves a group of people of good nature who have not lost their goodness due to political and national reasons.
Like a ray of sunlight shining into my heart. Luca also shines in the long-lost sunshine because of his relationship with Koria~ The little warmth under the background of the big era can move people the most. I like Czech movies very much, and I feel that there are so many weird things.
Finally, I want to say that this is a good movie that has been overlooked, and I recommend everyone to watch it.

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  • Thaddeus 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Forbearance and restraint emotions spread bit by bit under the camera. Too bad the ending came too light

  • Aryanna 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    It feels very good, very warm, the picture flows quietly, the photography is beautiful, the parting scene is so touched, Xiaozheng is too cute...