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There are the most brilliant jokes, the most beautiful field battles, the saddest donkeys, the most heart-wrenching parting, and the beautiful ending no less than Casablanca. Always remember that life is not fantasy and forbearance, grasp everything you want. This is the evaluation of this film by netizens! This issue will bring you two large-scale masterpieces by the former Yugoslav director Emile Kusturica.
In the early spring of the Balkan Peninsula, the gentle slopes of the rolling hills are paved with the colors of dry yellow and pale green. The coffin maker's donkey refused to work, and the poor old man had to carry the coffin himself, waddling along, and being left far behind by the donkey. But the grassland was endless, the road was far away, and he couldn't stand it anymore, so he put down the coffin and shouted the donkey's name: "Militsa!" Suddenly, brisk gypsy music rang out.
The camera skims over galloping horses and languid flocks of sheep, landing on an unfinished railroad track where a chubby postman is scooting a scooter to a Serbian village. Luca, an engineer who lives in the village, knocks on an egg, takes a sip with delight, says goodbye to his son who is practicing balls and his wife who is singing, and drives a homemade broken railcar to work in the city. At the same time, the postman entered the village to send a letter, and was fortunate enough to witness the moment when a chick broke out of its shell, and had to sigh heartily: "Life is a miracle!" ”
Life is a Miracle is a 2004 work by former Yugoslav director Emile Kusturica. In the film world, "Kusturica" is simply synonymous with madness. Born in Sarajevo, Kusturica is a Mu chinese, but his inner self is a typical gypsy tramp. The first thing this guy does in the morning is fire a few hundred rounds of bullets into the sky and then have breakfast.
His set was always as chaotic as the political situation in the Balkans. He is obsessed with gypsy music, worships goats, geese and other animals, and loves to play with explosives. His films are rife with surrealism and absurd black humor, and his work is rarely uncontroversial... Maybe none of this is much for a maverick director, but another amazing thing can definitely illustrate his madmanship: after the success of film circles in Western Europe and North America, he spent all his fortunes and a lot of loans to build a village in a mountainous area at an altitude of 3,000 feet above sea level in his hometown, and immediately became in debt, to which he simply said lightly: "This is my utopia!" ”
Yet this uncompromising madman is also a true genius. From his student days, his films have been compelling, as if every work had been made for an award. To date, the 54-year-old Kusturica has shot a total of 17 films, large and small, and has been nominated 16 times at three major art film festivals, and what is even more amazing is that he has already won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or twice at the age of 39.
Kusturica has so many masterpieces, and Life is a miracle is one of the more typical and mature ones. The successful film allows the audience to identify its basic elements in a matter of minutes, and in the next two hours, it uses extensive clues to penetrate the exquisite details, and the aesthetic effects and image implications of these elements are maximized. If measured by this standard, the film has long since transcended the boundaries of "success." Within two and a half hours, the family and love of the Serbs, the politics and wars of the Balkans, the fantasies and realities of the protagonists, and the various dimensions of life are intertwined in one breath, and under their background, an extraordinary story belonging to ordinary people appears.
The director gives life a dramatic imagination and tension, so that the whole story and film have a taste of magical reality: exaggerated stories, crazy performances, imaginative and humorous comedy expressions, and intriguing little details in the story: stubborn donkeys on the railroad tracks, people who can't play music, unimaginable possibilities of life. In terms of showing reality, Lao Ku has his own routine.
"Life is a Miracle" is not only a simple light comedy of life, it also carries the director's complex psychology. Kusturica does not maintain an implicit value of war, although he does not want to touch the essence of war, but reflects the sadness of leaving home, even if the two flee their homeland as they wish, but the son who represents the inseparable family is still waiting in his hometown. The land that has been bullied has become difficult to belong to, and the sense of drifting is spontaneous, and the end of his world-famous masterpiece "Underground" has also overflowed with this faint nostalgia: "Once upon a time, there was a country called Yugoslavia..." There was a kind of unpredictable helplessness in forgiveness and redemption, the homeland was no longer there, "I" could only stop in the distance to look at the speed of light and shadow on the horizon, looking forward to the return of that day...
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Douban 8.7 IMDb 7.6
Director: Emile Kusturica
Writers: Emile Kusturica / Ranko Potzik
Starring: Stimako / Natasha Tapszkovich
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance / War
Country of Production: Serbia and Montenegro
Language: Serbian / English
Release: 2004-05-14
Runtime: 154 minutes
Also known as: Life is a miracle
Movie "Underground"
This magical epic masterpiece is the culmination of director Kusturica's cinematic art. The film condenses the 50-year history of Yugoslavia into three hours, and the magnificent images of the climax and ups and downs give people a great shock and visual impact. Kusturica also won the Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time with this film. This year marks the centenary of world cinema.
《Underground》
Douban 9.2 IMDb 8.1
Writers: Kovačević / Emile Kusturica
Starring: Mickey Manojlovich / Listowski
Genre: Drama / War
Country/Region of Production: Yugoslavia / France / Germany
Language: Serbian / German
Release: 1995-04-01 (Yugoslavia)
Runtime: 170 minutes
Also known as: Underground Society (Taiwan)