Kuvaus:
Vít KlusákNäyttelijät:
Tomáš Klvaňa, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Slavoj Žižek, Ivan Martin Jirous, Václav Moravec, Jan Vyčítal, Miloš Zeman, Ladislav Smoljak, Jiří Lábus (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Six years after the provocative documentary “Czech Dream” was greeted by enthusiastic public reception and a number of awards from around the world, a new full-length film from directors Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda, called “Czech Peace”, is coming to domestic cinemas on May 6. Like “Czech Dream”, this one will also be a documentary comedy, though this time the subject of the film is the controversy around the plan to build an American radar base in the Brdy Mountains. “With larger-than-life humor, ‘Czech Peace’ goes behind the public images to expose all the absurd conflicts around it. Everyone has heard or read about the radar, but we were there where it was happening with a camera to record the unexpected,” the creators explain. Despite or precisely because the American government cancelled the plan, the film still speaks to a current topic. “We believe this is a comedy about the character and quality of Czech democracy twenty years after the revolution,” they say. “The radar is mainly a phenomenon that divided Czech society. Top politicians and ordinary people speak side by side in the film. The first of these groups typically are recorded by history, though without the second group there would be no history.” In the film you will see Barack Obama, George Bush, Mirek Topolánek, Tomáš Klvaňa, Jan Neoral, Ivan M. Jirous, peace activists and the residents of Brdy, as well as a domesticated wild-boar named Jonaš. You will visit the Oval Office in the White House, the Pentagon and the clearings and woods around the Brdy elevation spot point 718. “It is a relief to laugh at self-centered politicians and at one’s own self,” Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda comment. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (4)
Using ridiculous boorish people as example, the film perfectly describes a current (and not only current) Czech bad habit: to have an opinion on everything. Everybody thinks something about everything and they say it out loud, even though they actually know fuck all. Czech Peace gives room to laugh at those who deserve it, but unfortunately, as a viewer, all that concentrated stupidity ruined my afternoon. In any case, remarkably good.
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Klusák and Remunda can be much more persuasive than the notorious manipulator Moore, but unfortunately they, too, sometimes succumb to bias and lose the warm perspective from which all those involved emerge as desperate demagogues, morons and comedians... Except, of course, Magor - he's right, as always. Great material for criticizing ideology - that empty piece of land is literally soaked with it, whether it's the military police babbling on it or the forest elves of Greedpeace frolicking on it. And Magor's sociological evaluation of the Czech nation... it should be sculpted.
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There we have it. We got angry, we quarreled, we embarrassed ourselves, we were on TV, we were in the newspapers, we filmed celebratory songs and video clips, we demonstrated, we compared someone to someone and something to something, we reminisced and prophesied... Well, it all came together in the end. There is no radar. And we have our dream peace. A great comedy that actually happened. 100%
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A nice example of how we're ideologically diverse, which is good because everyone has the right to their opinion, but it's a bit sad to see people standing by their opinion without even knowing why. But that's also part of it. People have the right to an opinion, even if they don't really know why, but it's probably important to have one. It's up to you what opinion you form.
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