The geese, are they symbolic?
Why are there geese in the background in many parts of the film? Are they just for sun, or is this a symbol, or a relation to another work of art?
shareWhen Kusturica began to make the movies with Gypsies, somebody told (maybe even he) that the geese are very special animals for the Gypsies. I don't know exactly in which sense but it appears to be so, because they are always present in his Gypsy-movies.
Hope that this clears things a bit.
"At the Admission of a new Brother, a general Stock is raised for Booze, or Drink, to make themselves merry on the Occasion. As for Peckage, or Eatables, they can procure it without Money; for while some are sent to break the Ruffmans, or Woods and Bushes, for Firing, others are detached to filch Geese, Chickens, Hens, Ducks or Mallards, and Pigs. Their Morts are their Butchers, who presently make bloody Work with what living Things are brought them, and having made Holes in the Ground, under some remote Hedge in an obscure Place, they make a fire, and broil or boil their Food, and when 'tis enough, fall to work, Tooth and Nail, and having eaten more like Beasts than Men, they drink more like Swine than human Creatures, entertaining one another all the Time with Songs in the Canting Dialect."
The above quote is taken from [The] Dictionary of Thieving Slang, 1737 -
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/G/GYPSIES.html