May contain spoilers.
This film was very interesting and the DVD I rented from the library was on a DVD of this film maker called Collected Works Volume One and Two. The second volume includes a lot of footage about how the effects in this movie was made and talks a lot about the history involved. It made the symbols of the film more understandable, since it is in Czech.
The imagery is amusing, horrific and topical, all at once. Stalin's statue gets operated on and in his head is a bust of the new leader, which leads to the independence, but then cycles into deja vu as the surgeon gets obsessed with political zealotry.
Real pigs blood was used for this and I find it a true metaphor of politics in general. This movie, like all of Jan's shorts, has an underlying commentary about the repression and undercurrents of the human condition. I highly recommend them.
This film was very interesting and the DVD I rented from the library was on a DVD of this film maker called Collected Works Volume One and Two. The second volume includes a lot of footage about how the effects in this movie was made and talks a lot about the history involved. It made the symbols of the film more understandable, since it is in Czech.
The imagery is amusing, horrific and topical, all at once. Stalin's statue gets operated on and in his head is a bust of the new leader, which leads to the independence, but then cycles into deja vu as the surgeon gets obsessed with political zealotry.
Real pigs blood was used for this and I find it a true metaphor of politics in general. This movie, like all of Jan's shorts, has an underlying commentary about the repression and undercurrents of the human condition. I highly recommend them.