When a bird's feathers are smeared, it will be attacked by the flock as an alien after it returns to the flock. "Smeared Bird" takes us nearly 3 hours to show us this absurd world.
The movie uses the perspective of a Jewish boy, and through his many strange and magical experiences, let the viewers have a feeling of watching his magical life. The inexplicable death of his foster grandmother, being sold to witches as an unfortunate monster, being flogged by an incompetent old farmer who couldn't satisfy his wife, the short-term care of a birdcatcher who coddled with a mad woman, the kindness of a priest who wanted to help him The wicked woman who did bad things and found him a caregiver led him to be sodomized by a wretched man, beat and scolded him for dissatisfaction, and even found a goat to make peace. Instead, it was the Nazi veteran who wanted to shoot him but let him live, and taught him to use a gun to return him in the eye. The Soviet sniper who fought an eye for an eye, the murderous soldiers in these two units actually showed the kindness of humanity to this little Jewish boy, so that when I saw him shoot and beat the unscrupulous small trader, I felt There is a great feeling.
The whole movie is aphasia, but it is very powerful. The little boy as the male protagonist basically cherishes his words in the movie, but this absurd world is vividly displayed through the boy's speechless expressions and subtle movements, when he is like a poster. The picture was buried in the dirt, pecking at the crows, and thrown into the cesspool by the kind-hearted parishioners. I suddenly understood why the film "Smeared Bird" was presented in black and white, because these scenes were too malicious and Bloody, this world is a colorless hell for this boy, he is humble dependent on these adults and just wants to survive, but he has experienced all kinds of evil in the world, so when he was finally found by his father, he was already insensitive . Fortunately, at the end, the boy wrote his name joska, which symbolizes the act of finding himself and brings warmth to the film.
PS: This boy's life is too hard.
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