I saw recently a film called “Underground” (1995), whose director is Emir Kusturica. I found it awesome! It is a really brilliant movie. It tells us an “historic” story about conflicts, hopes, wars (not just military wars), love, misunderstandings, etc, in the Eastern Europe, especially in the ex-Yugoslavia.
The movie starts in the Second World War, with the resistance of the local people against the Nazis. Then, the story goes around Blacky and Marko, the leaderships of the resistance and the country. Blacky during the war keeps with his family and a lot of people in the shelter of a home, having an underground manufacture of weapons for the war, while Marko is cheating Blacky and everybody in the shelter, telling them to keep there and wait until the best moment to surprise the enemies, when in fact the war ended many time ago. So, the underground people stay above for about 50 years, all the time the Communist government was up. Then, they go out and enter to the war, but this time at Kosovo war 50 years later!
The extraordinary thing is that everything evolves in such a surreal way, that it is really a funny story. I hardly recommend it, it doesn’t have weak points.
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That’s fine, Camilo. You’ve written a good review of that movie. I can see that the story has a lot of what is called Magic or Magical realism, a genre in which magical or illogical events are shown as if they were perfectly ‘normal’
Even though your writing needs more thorough editing here, and there, it’s a good review on the whole. And very convincing!, I will surely see this movie.
JL
I recently saw a film called “Underground” (1995), whose director is Emir Kusturica. I found it awesome! It is a really brilliant movie. It tells us A “historic” TALE about conflicts, hopes, wars (not just military wars), love, misunderstandings, etc, in the Eastern Europe, especially in the ex-Yugoslavia.
The movie starts in the Second World War, with the resistance of the local people against the Nazis. Then, the story CENTERS / REVOLVES around Blacky and Marko, the leaderships of the resistance and the country. During the war Blacky REMAINs with his family and a lot of people in the shelter of a home, WHERE THEY KEEP an underground manufacture of weapons for the war. MEANwhile, Marko is cheating Blacky and everybody in the shelter, telling them to STAY there and wait until the best moment to surprise the enemies, when in fact the war ended A LONG time ago. So, the people underground stay THERE for MORE THAN/OVER 50 years, all the time THAT the Communist government was up. LATER , they LEAVE THE SHELTER and enter / TAKE PART IN the war, but this time DURING THE Kosovo war 50 years later!
The extraordinary thing is that everything evolves in such a surreal way, that it is really a funny story. I STRONGLY recommend it, it doesn’t have weak points.
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