Metaphors in the family

Kylee 2022-01-23 08:01:55

I was just born in the year Kusturica filmed this movie. I only saw Yugoslav movies like "Bridge" and "Walter Defends Sarajevo" when I was a kid. I had "Ah, goodbye friends" in my elementary school music class. "That song, I learned later that the Yugoslav country of the past is no longer there anymore. Eastern Europe has always been complicated and changeable. People living there probably have complicated feelings about their country. Of course they love their country, but they have to be careful. Milan Kundera definitely loved the Czech Republic, but the Czech Republic did not love him, so he had to go to France. The book he wrote for the people of his country could not be read by the people he loved. Manchevsky must also love Macedonia, but the sectarian war has spread for a long time, making his works full of sadness. Kusturica also loved Yugoslavia, but his irony of Tito's regime and his best efforts made him drift outside. This movie does not resemble Kusturica’s standard style-absurd, manic, and lively, with a peculiar story but profound meaning. "Dad on a Business Trip" is unexpectedly realistic. The boy in the film Malik looks at him. The adult world who didn't understand, finally found that he seemed to be happier when he was sleepwalking.



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"Dad on Business Trip", which tells about the growth of the boy Malik, from 44 years to the end of the film for 56 years. Telling growth from a child’s perspective is by no means as simple as children’s films, even adult fairy tales. It is more about reflecting a society different from their world in the eyes of children. There are all kinds of problems in this kind of society, but those children unknowingly set foot on the path of their parents again, doing what their parents have done before, becoming people like their parents.

Here, I have to quote Liu Xiaofeng’s famous statement about the classification of narrators. He believes that the most advanced category is narrative thinkers. They not only feel life at the metaphorical level of life, but also think in it. Liu Xiaofeng thinks that Kiesnovsky belongs to this category, and I think there are other film masters in this category besides Keith. From the point of view of photographing children, narrative thinkers are not just what they learn by simply photographing children, but what adults should learn, and what adults should be afraid of after watching them. Talking about children is actually just prospects, and talking about talents is the real purpose. For example, in Yang Dechang's "One One", Yang Yang took pictures of the back of his head one after another in the lens, because people can't see them, so he took them to show others. For example, in Tarkovsky's "Ivan's Childhood", Ivan who was supposed to be holding a toy is holding a gun, but the woods where the cuckoos should be are covered with wire, but in fact, the child doesn't know what war is. Another example is Angelopoulos' "Landscape in the Mist". Alexander knows more respect and compassion than adults, and their long way to find their father has been forgotten by adults. And this "Dad on Business Trip" by Kusturica.

At the beginning of the film, we describe Malik’s life: a loving mother and a father who loves him, an older brother who likes film and an accordion, and a fat friend. He and his brother are about to be circumcised, and the children around him No difference. Malik may even be luckier than the other kids, because his father is a backbone of the party and he often travels on business. He will bring him back small gifts and take him to see the female pilot's flight show. However, this life soon ended. On the day he was circumcised, his father was taken away by his uncle because of political problems. Malik thought that his father was on a business trip again, but we knew the reason for the trip. We used to see our mistress, but this time it was because of an unintentional comment on a comic. The child's thinking is straight, and it is precisely because of this simplicity that the truth hidden behind makes us sigh. Uncle could give him the football Malik wanted, but his uncle was the one who asked his father to "travel", so his mother refused the football. I went to see my father with my mother. He rode on his neck as before and said to him: "So you haven't grown taller or fatter?". Dad took Malik out, but he still ran to fool around. Malik saw Dad's feet climb on the skirt of the opposite girl student under the table, and he lit the skirt with fire. Seeing father and mother fighting together, he ran over and hugged mother tightly. Who said that children don't know anything? Malik’s brother has a maturity that does not match his age. This boy with thick glasses is always grinning unspokenly. He collects film like an artist. He likes watching movies and playing with an accordion. The first "Waves of the Danube". For his brother’s sleepwalking, he took out a bell to tie his brother’s feet; in order to get Malik to take out the money he planned to buy football and give it to his mother, he actually scuffled with his brother, but his mother saw two embarrassed children in the rain. He just had a firm face; when he saw his mother fighting with him because of his father, he just watched quietly with the organ on the side. Some students said that when the boy grew up, he was either a good person or a bad person. I think his calmness is not because of numbness or other things. Both are his favorite people. What can he do? Some emotions hidden in our hearts may be more turbulent, and we don't know how to express, so we choose to smile and be silent. Malik is innocent and ignorant of the world, while his elder brother consciously helps his mother to share the burden after his father's "business trip". The "Waves of the Danube" that has been pulling may hope that his family can still be calm in the changed life.

Circumcision means adulthood in a certain sense, but on the day Malik and his brother were circumcised, his father, who should have been a man of growth, was taken away. The void caused by the sudden growth made Malik sleepwalking. In his dream, he walked through the quiet streets in the middle of the night, climbed to the top of the high mountains, and even came to the girl he liked. In his dream, he was free and happy, but in reality, he had to witness the animal-like intercourse between the romantic father and the woman who had beaten his mother madly.

Yangyang finally told his dead grandmother that he was old, and Malik finally said that he felt old, and then covered his head with a quilt. After seeing all this, Malik chose to sleepwalk, just as Oscar chose to scream and drum.


The disillusionment of his father's image

Kusturica was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1954. His complicated background made it impossible for him to get rid of political interpretations in his works. Kusturica himself was politically opposed to the ultra-nationalist movement in Serbia. He once requested an open duel with the leader of the movement, but was rejected. Most of his works are lively and lively, with cheerful music from the Balkans. Weddings and party scenes frequently appear in his movies, with balloons, flowers, food and nearly crazy people together. He likes the freedom of Gypsy culture, and in "Black Cat and White Cat", this yearning is depicted vividly and vividly. This crazy state also shows the political chaos in the Balkans for decades, and the absurd life is also an alternative portrayal of people under high pressure. For political reasons, Kusturica’s works have never been favored by Eastern European critics, who believe that he is vilifying his country and winning the favor of Western audiences. In fact, it is not the case. Just like the ending of his famous "Underground", Ivan, who had been detained in the lunatic asylum for decades, ran out, stopped a car and told the driver that he was going to Yugoslavia. The driver laughed and replied. "There is no more Yugoslavia on the earth." Kusturica must be full of tears when photographed here. He chose to use magical realism to express his disaster-ridden country. It is not that he does not love, but precisely because The deep hopes placed on it.

Why did Kusturica describe a gentle and virtuous mother in "Dad on a Business Trip" but describe her father as romantic and still not repenting after being released from prison? The mother in this film is almost a perfect person, beautiful, gentle, hardworking and kind-hearted. After her father was taken away, she supported the family alone, not only taking care of her two young sons, but also her own father. She asked people around because of her father. After Misa (father) was released from prison, she resolutely took her two children to another remote place to start anew with him. It was not that she didn't know Misa's romance, and she knew that in a sense it was this romance that sent him to prison, but she still forgave Misa. When she learned that Misa ran out to steal fishery after she was released from prison, she finally fought him, but in the end a family of four sat on the bed and ate grapes. The mother is flawless here, but the father, who is the core of the family spirit, has many problems. He seems to be loyal to his family only when he is working on the farm because of political issues. Even when under investigation, he still goes out to meet with female students in private, even in front of his son. Misa knew that he was in jail because of what he said to his mistress on the train. Although he was a party member, he still loved his party. But in the end, he still hugged his former mistress, not because of nostalgia or tenderness, but full of revenge and humiliation. What's interesting is that compared with the romantic nature of his father, the uncle who was described with negative brushstrokes as a director looks very loyal, at least in the film, it seems that there is no chaotic private life. On the one hand, Misa had doubts about Tito's rule, but after reforming, he immediately corrected his thoughts. When he learned that Malik was selected as the student to lay the torch to the chairman, he not only wrote what he wanted to say to the chairman, but also let Malik practice over and over again. We probably all have this kind of experience, broadcasting gymnastics, political classes, welcoming leaders... In fact, what party policy, what class struggle, what sugar-coated shells, how can these words be understood at the age? So when we saw Malik forget what to say because of nervousness, we would smile and feel a little embarrassed. Is it because Missa (directly acting on Malik's patriarchy) made Malik so nervous that he forgets his words, or the chairman (in a totalitarian society, acting on the patriarchy of all people) making him nervous? In the film, Malik said it was because of the pins on the clothes.

Malik was obviously disappointed and angry when he saw his father and aunt (daddy's former mistress) intercourse in the basement, otherwise he would not hold the ball and stare at his father and refuse to speak to him. The mother with a big belly and the wedding was completely unaware of everything that happened in the basement. The father’s betrayal is twofold. He betrayed the mother who worked hard to support the family and the father in Malik’s heart. He even betrayed his former mistress. Misa’s insulting possession made his mistress after he left. I chose to commit suicide, but I didn't want my socks to hang on the pull ring of the shower head. Even suicide became a farce. It was probably the saddest thing. Malik was disappointed with his father because of his indulgence, but is his father's romanticism an extreme expression of his disappointment? So he would hook up with female students in front of Malik, hug her after beating his mother, and "report" his mistress at his brother's wedding. People's behavior often corresponds to the environment in which they live. In this relatively mild film of Kusturica, only the father has a chaotic life, while in "Life is a miracle", on the border between Serbia and Bosnia, people drive wildly. At the party, the so-called patriots put cocaine on the railroad tracks linking the two countries and sucked as they walked. In "Black Cat and White Cat", people can be seen playing with guns and bombs everywhere. At the end of "Underground", the carnival was simply placed on the floating ground farther and farther away from the mainland. I agree with the suggestion that the relationship between Misa and his mistress was alluded to the relationship between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, because Kusturica was the director exiled by Yugoslavia, just like Tarkovsky and Kiesnovsky.

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