Thursday, February 17, 2011
In the film "Underground" chaos seems to be the norm. The characters Blacky and Marco act incredibly calm though amidst these fierce and violent displays of chaos. It seems that the characters are trying to keep aspects of normalcy in their every day lives of unordinary circumstances. An example of this is in the beginning of the film in which Blacky is eating his breakfast, ignoring the external events going around him. This film shows how characters in times of war and desperate situations, try to live their lives positively and nonchalantly. The film downplays instances of death such as the dead animals at the zoo. Through this display of horrible situations being taken so light-heartidly, one can see the true awfulness of World War II Europe.
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Or maybe the chaos around them is in fact their normalcy. Maybe that's why they act so nonchalantly. Take for example Marko and his lack of "normal" sexual judgement while bombs are going off, the normal is now nothing and the chaos is what he lives for.
ReplyDeleteThe film downplays everything. But I think it represents the coping mechanism the people used to hide from their reality. Why be sad when you can just pretend everything is happy and dandy? The reality of the situation remains the same either way, right?
ReplyDeleteI think Julie is also right. Maybe they already had expected this to happen because it was happening in the surrounding countries.