People who live peacefully in life will not have the sigh of "life is a miracle!", only when there are ripples in the calm water life will we have some feelings about life itself, and when life has wonderful or twists and turns, we will It is possible to exclaim "Life is a miracle!". War is like a thug, he tore apart the peaceful life, leaving behind a grotesque fragment, so life seems grotesque, because it already seems grotesque, and at the same time people have to live in the already miserable life. Absurd", forget the hardships of reality and seek the tranquility that once existed. The Balkans is a land of misery, it is the "powder keg" of Europe, which can explode at any moment, blasting life and life to smithereens. As a director living in this land, Kusturica is all too familiar with this, the turmoil is already numbing, like the Israelis facing a human bomb, so he presents the pre and post war in a comically surreal way. Life, fighting, murder, deceit, war, racial strife, any of these are enough material to make a heart-pounding, heart-pounding film through his hands. There is still a hint of coolness, perhaps because I already knew the suffering that this land has endured, or maybe people are already familiar with the suffering that this land has endured, so instead of showing its heavyness again, it is better to look at life in extraordinary times from another angle. It can still be beautiful, it can still be happy, not just alive.
The brown bear who breaks into the house and wanders leisurely; the donkey who is trapped in love and looking for shortsightedness; the rude mayor who feasts in the car driving on the rails; the drunk young man who shoots the bottle above his comrade's head. . . . . . The beginning of the film shows a slice of ordinary life, of course, if you think it is ordinary life. The people of a small town seem to be living happily, the railway engineer Luca's family seems to be living happily, he has a child who plays football, a neurotic wife, and the life around them seems to me to be bizarre, Like that chaotic ball game with sopranos and brawls. And life seems happy, even things like assassination are carried out in a cheerful tune. However, all kinds of contradictions have emerged, and behind the happy life is a step-by-step process of major changes. Luca's neurotic singing opera wife was more sober at this point. On the football field, she said, "Everything in the world is a stage, everything, everything! There is everything on this stage".
When Luca told his wife that he had learned from "people in the know" that "wars don't happen," she said that "the people who start wars are those who know." This woman makes me inevitably think of "madman". There will always be such a "sober" in the back of the film, reminding us what reality is like in this absurd comedy. Of course, sometimes, "sober" is a broadcaster News TV. Kusturica makes you laugh at the comedy, but doesn't make you happy, and then reminds you what reality is, without leaving a trace.
This movie with war as the background doesn't have too many scenes facing the war, and it also revolves around Luca's life, without too much blood and war pain. For example, after Luca's son was captured, there was no tense story of "saving the soldiers", but Luca fell in love with Sabah, a female "prisoner of war" who was going to exchange children. Luca and Sabah's romance is a beautiful highlight of the film, especially the scene where they make out, the naked two rolled out of the house wrapped in blankets and rolled on the grass, accompanied by a burst of laughter and joy In the age of raging wars, this kind of love between men and women that transcends the nation seems to be more precious and full of miracles. This is the style of this movie, and plots like transnational love that could have been so sensational are also full of comedy. What Kusturica expresses is actually something that can be serious, but the way he expresses it is not serious, and he expresses seriousness in the absurd, which is even more impressive.
At the end of the story, the comedy did not continue, and Sabah was finally exchanged for the other party, in exchange for Luka's son. When the press imagined how the "prisoners of war" on both sides were abused, Luka and Sabah looked at each other from a distance. apart, the music is still so cheerful. In the end, a heartbroken Luca tried to commit suicide, but the donkey that wanted to die reappeared and pulled him back to reality, so he rode the donkey, with a neurotic wife, his life went on, yes, Since life is a miracle, why not let the miracle continue?
Perhaps because I have listened too much to the stories of suffering in the Balkans, the comedy in this film can't always be a pleasant experience for me, and I'm always sensitive to the details of reality. But maybe because of this, I also understand why living in the Balkans is a miracle. Ordinary people come to the earth and live ordinary lives. Since war is hard, why not try to live happily, capture rare happiness, and put It's absurdly magnified. I think for a director who has lived in this land for a long time, in Kusturica's heart, "life is a miracle" must be an expression full of complex emotions. For us ordinary people, life is not like this. The beauty of life is fragile and may be broken by sudden people or events at any time, so perhaps we should face life with a pious attitude towards miracles. It's a miracle, you and I should cherish it even more!
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