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• 1 September 2009

I watched a really cool Yugoslavian film over the weekend.. it was called Underground. It came out in 1995, and it got the highest prize at Cannes. It was directed by Emir Kusturica.

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Basically, it’s about these two Yugoslavian guys who are best friends during World War II. They live in Belgrade, and they are both in love with the same actress. It covers them over 15 years of World War II, the war ending, the Cold War, and the Yugoslav Wars. So, it’s a lot of conflict and awful things happening, but at the same time, you get to know these characters and they have so much inside of them and they are so alive, that they steal your attention away from all the war and death going on.

The thing I really love about this film is how it’s basically like an eyeful and an earful at all times. One of the first scenes is when the zoo gets bombed by the Germans. And so there’s all these tigers and monkeys and stuff screaming and ratling their cages, and then theres all these bombs dropping. And in the very first scene, there is a band that plays behind the main guys, who are coming home drunk. It’s hard to describe it in words cause it’s so visual and there’s so much that goes on, but here is one version of the preview:

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