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Ambiguous about anarchic freedom vs. irresponsibility?

posted 10 years ago by moilane
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Wow, in an article - for which the director herself declined to comment - we find this:

“It’s very ambiguous!” Michal Bregant, director of the National Film Archive in Prague, wrote in an e-mail. “It looks like an anarchist statement, but the director wanted to warn what might be the consequences of irresponsible human behavior.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/movies/daisies-from-the-czech-direct or-vera-chytilova-at-bam.html?_r=0

Does anybody here know more about the subject or indeed about the director's intentions?

[–] PoppyTransfusion 8 years ago

I cannot answer your last question from research but there is no way that the director is warning about the irresponsible behaviour of the women when she ends the film

This film is dedicated to those whose sole source of outrage is people ignoring “Keep off the grass” signs.

She is warning about people's preoccupations with petty society when looming large is a fatal enemy who crushes and kills the women.

I'm scared of the middle place between light and nowhere

[–] mrpinbert 8 years ago

I think what you're saying is probably close to the thruth. I just wanted to mention that the movie does at several times hint at how the girls actually feel unhappy inside, that they are useless drains on society (the part were they steal corn, farmers pass them by and they feel ignored).

Also the part right before that when they gaze upon the farmer on his field with sort of "angelic" music playing, suggesting that he has a true, more pure, purpose in life.

I'm not saying I have the movie "figured out", I just wanted to mention my observations.

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[–] oknar1977 8 years ago

i think i know what she meant.

in early 80s i was abused by nanny in state kindergarden.
back then in communism - you could not get fired from your job. you could do whatever you want on your job. she might even kill me, she would still keep her job. i always thought about what make people evil back then - it was communism regime then, it was more-less drug free time, non violence - why and how people turned out to be so selfish and anarchic , allow themselves the freedom to abuse a child?
obviously something happen in 1960s and people struggled to break the norm and normal behaviour - but in the process some of them used it to forge violence upon others - just like hippie era ended with manson slaughter.

so it is question - would this earth be better if there was no sexual revolution in 1960s?
if people just stayed stuck up like in film smallville and at least pretend to care about people's feelings?