il signor Gulliver, dopo la scelta di una strada di campagna (tutto nasce da quella biforcazione, fra Swift, Carroll e Kafka) si trova in un mondo parallelo, nel quale è la vittima predestinata.
i sempre più deboli tentativi di sfuggire a qualcosa che neanche Gulliver capisce diventano rassegnazione a qualcosa d'incomprensibile.
Pavel Juráček dopo il 1968 a Praga fu messo in condizioni di non nuocere, quanti film che mai furono girati.
un film da non perdere, da vedere e rivedere - Ismaele
QUI o QUI si può vedere il film, sottotitolato in inglese
Tratto da Swift (il protagonista si chiama Gulliver) ma con
reminiscenze kafkiane (il processo) e carrolliane (la lepre), il film conferma
la vitalità e l'estro stilistico e narrativo del cinema cecoslovacco di quegli
anni che riparandosi dietro alla satira del genere fantastico, della satira e
del grottesco, sapeva aggirare la censura del regime, per criticarla in modo
aspro e beffardo.Rispetto ad altre opere dell'epoca risulta meno riuscito ed
angosciante,ma non mancano motivi di interesse per riscoprirlo, soprattutto se
si è appassionati del genere.
Case for a Rookie Hangman is a film from the Czechoslovak New
Wave directed by Pavel Juráček. A modern adaptation
based very loosely on the third book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels. Perhaps best known for his screenwriting contributions, (among
them a co-writing credit on Věra Chytilová's Daisies), this
was Juráček's second and final feature film as a director. It was
banned by the government shortly after completion and resulted in him being
blacklisted from the Czechoslovak film industry. Sadly, he passed away a few
short months before the end of Communist rule in 1989, never getting the chance
to work again…
…Viewers expecting a conventional story or a
faithful adaptation should probably stay away from this one, but those who
enjoy being a passenger on a bewildering and unpredictable experimental journey
will surely find this a rewarding experience. What a terrible shame and loss
for us all that Juráček's career ended here.
Czech
surreal political and social satire that uses the backdrop of Jonathan Swift's
travels of Gulliver in the countries of Balnibari and Laputa, but with an
atmosphere that is part Kafka, part Lewis Carroll. The movie contains
references to all these works, but also takes many bites out of Czech society,
history and politics. The first twenty minutes or so contain a masterpiece of
surrealism as a man travels into a strange land by way of dream-logic, his car
running away from him, meeting a dead rabbit dressed in trousers and
pocket-watch, wandering through a bizarre house where he meets himself as a
child and falls down sideways through doors, etc. Most of the movie then
wanders into something from Kafka's The Castle, only with absurd humor, as he
finds himself battling with strange bureaucracy, breaking odd rules like a day
of silence to conserve air, and trying to track down important people that may
help him, with continuous distractions and complications. Citizens get executed
for absurd, unexplainable reasons, they look forward to visits from the
mysterious floating land of Laputa, build thinking machines, and he finds that
people at the higher rungs of the hierarchy are never what they seem to be. One
flaw with this one is its fragmented approach, and the fact that it lost some
of its universal appeal present in Kafka/Swift. I would probably appreciate
this more if I were Czech.
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