Movie recommendation
Feb. 1st, 2007 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinaed*runs around in circles*
So, my university is putting on a Central European year-round Festival, which means they do lectures about Slovenia going green and Yugoslavia during WWII and whatnot. Tonight, it was a film entitled, Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall). It's an actual Czech movie, with English subtitles.
The premise is that a childless couple in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia take in the youngest son of their Jewish employer’s family despite the danger.
So, I told myself, "Okay, prepare yourself. This is going to be as depressing as hell. The kid is going to be found, or the husband is going to get shot," and when the lady in charge of setting up the film announced that this was a comedy, I laughed and was like, "Bullshit," because hello, Nazis. No way this was going to be a comedy.
It was, in fact, a comedy. Yes, it did have the bleakness of the time, people struggling for food and needing permits, the dire straights people were in and the Soviets at the end, already looking over the Czech Resistance's shoulder, but the film also had humor, showing us the utter absurdity of life and all the crazy stunts people will pull to survive.
It was...an awesome movie. The first ten minutes leave you going, "Uh...this is going to be bad," and then suddenly it's got a plot, characters you can't help but fall in love with, and an interesting and engrossing story. If you have it in your local library or if it's on Netflix, I suggest watching it. You'll fall in love with Josef, David, Hurst, and Marie, just like I did.
...And now I want to write the AU where Zelenka was a Jew during the occupation, only it's going to be all depressing and whatnot. *hangs head*
So, my university is putting on a Central European year-round Festival, which means they do lectures about Slovenia going green and Yugoslavia during WWII and whatnot. Tonight, it was a film entitled, Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall). It's an actual Czech movie, with English subtitles.
The premise is that a childless couple in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia take in the youngest son of their Jewish employer’s family despite the danger.
So, I told myself, "Okay, prepare yourself. This is going to be as depressing as hell. The kid is going to be found, or the husband is going to get shot," and when the lady in charge of setting up the film announced that this was a comedy, I laughed and was like, "Bullshit," because hello, Nazis. No way this was going to be a comedy.
It was, in fact, a comedy. Yes, it did have the bleakness of the time, people struggling for food and needing permits, the dire straights people were in and the Soviets at the end, already looking over the Czech Resistance's shoulder, but the film also had humor, showing us the utter absurdity of life and all the crazy stunts people will pull to survive.
It was...an awesome movie. The first ten minutes leave you going, "Uh...this is going to be bad," and then suddenly it's got a plot, characters you can't help but fall in love with, and an interesting and engrossing story. If you have it in your local library or if it's on Netflix, I suggest watching it. You'll fall in love with Josef, David, Hurst, and Marie, just like I did.
...And now I want to write the AU where Zelenka was a Jew during the occupation, only it's going to be all depressing and whatnot. *hangs head*
