The absurd comedy is the greatest tragedy

Retha 2022-03-24 09:02:16

I have seen Emile Kusturica's "Black Cat and White Cat" before, and his absurd style is always calm at the beginning. With the superposition of absurd feelings, it finally broke out.

Underground, as soon as the wind music remembered, and with a few more gunshots, I knew that the absurdity of Emile Kusturica was coming again. Several people with their heads facing the camera, musicians and protagonists appear together. Absurd music, absurd feeling.

In the beginning, it was just war, the absurdity of war. The animals in the zoo were not only killed like people, but they were still running around in the streets. A stuttering zookeeper hugs his orangutan friend. The object of his orangutan friend was blown up. All sadness seems so not sad, but rather funny.

There are a lot of clues in Underground, all of which are absurd. The pregnant woman sits down the stairs one by one, the child is born, and then the mother dies, uttering another name before leaving. A man ties himself and his loved one together and walks behind his back. Two men fall in love with a woman at the same time, a man rides a horse for the other, etc. Things that seem unreasonable are actually logical.

The underground is open, you can go from here to there, it can be used to save people, and it can be used to escape.

If the beginning is all about giving people absurd joy, the tragedy begins when the Underground really becomes underground. Friends are deceived, people live underground, and they look forward to the day when the revolution can come out of the ground. But how helpless they were when they walked out. The children regarded the moon as the sun and the deer as horses. Dad pretended to be drowning, and cried and went to the water to find Dad, who couldn't swim. How simple he is, but how helpless the world is. In the end the child drowned, and the father went to rescue him but fell into a net. It seems that fate always has a plan. He couldn't escape the helpless net.

General Tito's best friend left him, and Tito's revolutionary cause gradually became weaker and weaker. It's funny to look at. What is General Tito? What does it have to do with General Tito? He is absurd tragedy. It represents the tragedy of war, the tragedy of the country, the tragedy of life.

The beginning of the tragedy is absurd, the absurdity becomes helpless, and the helplessness piles up to the point and becomes a tragedy.


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Extended Reading
  • Jimmie 2022-03-24 09:02:16

    After reading it, I wanted to kneel and kowtow. The script, photography, and rhythm were all amazing. How do we know that we are not living underground? From the demise of one communist country, we can see the future of another communist country. From the ending, I felt that the director still had infinite warmth for the motherland. Those reluctance and remembrance are really painful.

  • Newell 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Once, there was a country called Yugoslavia, and its capital was Belgrade.

Underground quotes

  • Ivan: Bila jednom jedna zemlja. Once upon a time... there was a country...

  • Marko: A war is no war until the brother kills his brother.