Sucker Punch

Amid the civil turmoil happening in the movie, Undergound, there is almost a breath of fresh air behind the stinking corruption and rebelled nature of each character. Blacky and Marko offer a satirical presence to all of the chaos erupting in the middle of war. You see this mainly from Blacky, especially in the beginning of the movie when they were first being bombed by the Germans. His town was being blown to smithereens and yet he is focused on eating and it is only until his meal gets interrupted that he gets up and grabs his gun. Marko presents himself as the more respectable of the two, not as disruptive but equally difficult to predict what will come next. However, together, their collective, outlandish and explicit actions implicitly offer a sense of pride and nationalism. Underground may be coming from all different angles, but it shows a people united, behind a single cause. Surrounded by tension and conflict, Blacky and Marko find themselves in situations where they are contrasting what is happening. They are the comic relief, however, their beliefs are serious matters. They are rebels, they won't stand for an occupation by the Germans, which is seen through Blacky's murdering of Franz in the middle of Natalia's play. The conscious of the play is only seen and understood if you fight through the absurdity of Marko and Blacky, all of their antics are mere "sucker-punches" to the war, to those against them, but their cause is one of unity and revolution, all behind one nation.