Thursday, February 17, 2011
Kusturica’s Underground
In Kusturica’s Underground, the conflicts are given a comedic and almost sarcastic touch through the aesthetics of the movie during what typically would be a stressful moment. The character Blacky typically gives the most comedic relief in these stressful situations. For example, when Blacky's town is being bombed at the beginning of the film, Blacky continues to eat his meal without alarm in a comedic way as dust from the ceiling is shaking off onto him and his plate. Another instance occurs when Blacky steals Natalia from the stage on his back with a rope and shoots a man in the front row of the audience. While all of this is occuring, Blacky is cracking jokes and pretending to be an actor to the grand amusement of his friend Marco (which causes us to know it is fine to laugh as well). So Kusturica’s Underground gives us the contemporary "let it be," cool, calm, and collected humor we love in a historical WWII/Cold War context.
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You're right, that kind of humor is pretty common in movies about this era. I wonder if that's a reflection of trends in moviemaking or of the sort of coping mechanisms people had at the time. i.e. let it be, cool, calm, collected humor
ReplyDeleteI think that that type of humor is a mix of both a trend in filmmaking and a coping mechanism. That kind of juxtaposition is what makes the film more of an original endeavor. It makes it memorable.
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