★ Reason for recommendation: Have you ever thought about how many people a train driver will kill in his lifetime? Videos can give you the answer
★ Recommended groups: professional drivers, timid people, confused youth
☆ Viewing method: Other
☆ Movie watching tips
1. The film was officially selected by Serbia to participate in the "Best Foreign Language Film Award" at the 89th Academy Awards.
2. This is the first film starring young actor Pavle Eric.
3. Director Milos Radović won the "Third Prize for Short Films" and the "Jury Prize for Short Films" at the 40th Cannes Film Festival.
☆ Network scoring
Douban 7.7 IMDb 7.4
☆ Media reviews
Schwanmitbrille: Strange neighbors paved the way for the whole story, so that the topic of life and death does not seem ridiculous.
ZiLion Film: The film has a pure soul, and the director uses a simple sense of humor to make a story that makes the audience sympathetic.
Celluloid Paradiso: The film could be renamed with a more appropriate title, such as "Love and Death", through a slow rhythm to show the pain of the elderly, and finally reach a satisfactory climax.
☆ Fan reviews
Liang Songhua_Douban Movie: Although there is a good concept, the characters and events are too thin and weak, and this kind of rough movie has always been disliked.
Purple October_Sina Weibo: Introverted comedy, good reception, only that mountain of love, the movie is so niche, more worth cherishing.
JvH48_IMDb: Adding tragic elements to the comedy, the film has no vulgar jokes, no nonsense, only heavy and incomparable love.
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In a self-deprecating way, he boldly speaks of his understanding of life and death.
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Death is only the beginning
If you see this movie for the first time, you wonder if you're watching a movie from decades ago.
Yes, the whole film has a very "rough" texture, and this feeling is not just expressed in terms of visuals.
This small-budget film from Serbia uses black humor and magic to tell a warm story with allegory.
The film is very interesting, how many people will be killed in the career of a train driver? And how will they face it?
The Serbs will "die", which is a heavy topic, and adapted it to be even more absurd.
As with the well-used phrase "comedy often has a core of tragedy":
The whole film is wrapped in a ridiculous shell and wrapped in black humor, which produces a different kind of warmth.
At the beginning of the film, an old man named Ilya is treated by two young psychiatrists.
The train driver, who suffers from the typical "PTSD," just hit and killed a whole car.
As a result, the two young doctors were depicted by the old man's calm and exaggerated details, and they were frightened and vomited...
Because for his life experience and career, death has long been commonplace.
The whole film also "jokes" about the topic of death in this way.
Ilya, who accidentally lost her lover, lives in a housing area surrounded by peers.
This group of people is very strange, and the topic they talk about after dinner is how many people have been killed in "comparison".
Even the son of the "diesel engine" couple, who had the best relationship with the old man of Ilya, was killed by him...
The childless and childless old man, in the process of work, saved a little boy who was abandoned by his parents and wanted to commit suicide.
This harsh and arrogant stubborn old man, probably guilty of what had happened on the track, decided to adopt him.
The relationship between all the people in the film is closely linked by "death".
But from the boy's determination to become a train driver like his adoptive father, "death" is about to become "rebirth".
Sima, a boy who finally became a train driver, is constantly troubled by "death".
In the face of the topic of "bumping into people", each of his journeys gradually collapsed in high tension.
The profession of train driver seems to be a curse in itself that is difficult to unravel.
The whole life of the old man and the boy is bound by "death", so death is far more than just fear.
It becomes an obstacle, not only on the railroad tracks, but also in the heart and on the road of life.
So, the absurd scene is back, and here is also the scene before the film reaches its climax.
Sima must cross this barrier to move on, and this is the only spell to unlock the curse of the industry:
He needed to crash to death, the first person in his career.
The director uses this kind of black humor to show that we have the courage to face fear, which you can also understand as a rite of passage.
The most powerful thing about the film is that this practice of "bloody rituals" by hitting people to death does not disgust the audience.
On the contrary, I think this kind of laughter is very advanced, and under the creative freshness, I will also have a sympathy for this kind of profession.
Just like the beginning and end of the film, a monologue echoing before and after:
"My father and I have killed 53 people, 40 men, 13 women, but we have never been convicted."
"Because we've never sinned before."
This kind of absurd cuteness and self-deprecating introverted emotions may be unique to Eastern Europeans.