The Fantastic Life of a Milk Delivery Man is a self-written and self-directed fantasy drama film by Serbian (former Yugoslavia) director Emile Kusturica, with the main actors monica Bellucci and Monica Bellucci, etc. The film won the Little Golden Lion Award at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.
"The Fantastic Life of a Milk Delivery Man" takes place during the Bosnian War, telling the story of a Serbian milk delivery man (Emil Kusturica) who risks his life every day to give precious milk to soldiers through a hail of bullets and bullets, and his fate seems lucky and calm in the wartime of survival in the cracks, until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman (Monica Bellucci) completely changes everyone's fate.
The film quotes a large number of metaphors, milk also represents the "milky way", as well as blood-soaked geese, snakes of unknown good and evil, etc., pushing the audience from the magical and realistic story chapter to the exaggerated and illusory country. The director uses abundant and flowing vitality to compose a gorgeous wild and helpless lamentation rhapsody of war with a tragic and absurd performance.
<h1>We're all going to hell. </h1>
Most people will envy him, our silly and energetic protagonist. If, as mentioned at the beginning of the movie, "The Fantastic Life of the Milk Delivery Man" is a film that combines three stories, from the beginning of the black ghost realism, the middle into the psychedelic love, and finally the allegorical fruitful life, perhaps this is not necessarily a comedy that can be easily viewed, it is undeniable that it is indeed a war that must be easily appreciated.
The ease is not the perspective of the moviegoer, but the life experience that the people in it must accompany, God really exists, he will judge the world with a harsh eye, and finally all people and things are empty, and they will go to hell.
The man who delivered milk in the midst of war seemed to have a dullness, or openness, that no ordinary man had, and he could ride his donkey freely between guns and bullets, regardless of the rain of bullets outside, just to get milk from the country farms and deliver precious supplies to his brothers on the front line, because he had no fear of this seemingly simple goal.
Maybe staying in the war environment for a long time, naturally will exercise a normal heart that is not afraid of life and death, I do not call it courage, men are so shuttled through the trenches of the battlefield day after day, he does not think that the war will end the day, comrades do not feel that even if everyone is looking forward to the day, for him, the environment can not change the situation, can not be smoothly retrieved milk is the most valuable thing.
Who would have thought that if something went wrong on the farm that produces milk, it would not be a disaster to give the bell a few bites and be fine.
Unexpectedly, the big bell biting episode became the most interesting bridge section of the first story.
The milk delivery workers who traveled between the battlefield and the rear suddenly found that the meaning of their survival was not to dodge the place where the shells fell, nor to save a king snake that might harm people, but to be sent to the farm to prepare to marry the brother of the farm hostess.
Since ancient times, the hero is sad about the beauty pass, even if this man is not called a hero, it is still sad to pass this pass, but before passing the pass, there are two floodgates, that is, the men and women of the farm family - the brother wants to marry the big beauty, and the sister wants to marry the man.
Like the love entanglement of the eight o'clock file, suddenly let the whole farm lively, the story of course according to the development of the farm family wants, the stubborn young hostess is sexy and lively and a little crazy, the man does not look at her, the brother who returned from the battlefield is ready to marry the big beauty, but on the eve of the wedding, he pulled out the ambiguity between the man and the big beauty.
Seeing that the story took a sharp turn, unexpectedly, the enemy who plotted to take away the big beauty suddenly killed, destroyed the entire farm and ruined the whole wedding, and killed all the people, only the big beauty in the wedding dress and the milk delivery man survived. The story ends here, and the two can't say it without getting together.
Director Emile Kusturica expresses the mockery of war and marriage in a story of obscure meanings, born in this era is hard and happy, can freely choose the object of love, but also have to bear the sadness that may be robbed of hope at any time, the war has changed the lives of many people, but also conveyed the helplessness of powerlessness.
The peregrine falcon, donkey, and python that appear in the movie may be just a simple animal cunning taste, but I think that each has a representative meaning, the python reward can not be imagined in common sense, just like the next second of war change, the enemy may become a friend, the same way, we will become the enemy in an instant; the peregrine falcon symbolizes freedom, but it has never been mastered, until the end of the movie still failed to let people catch the most wanted call.
<h1>And donkeys, just stupid, this world. </h1>
Milena's beauty may really cause misfortune, it is the deepest pain in her heart, if every man wants to implicate her just by looking at her appearance, where can she hide?
I was thinking for a while, she is not really in love with Costa, but there is no choice in that environment, the other men are too filthy, he is the only one who is pure, otherwise where is this milk delivery man worth her charm? That is fate, but also the refuge of simple life.
What has not been changed by the war is not changed by the landmines, but also the heart that looks forward to ease.