Friday, January 1, 2010

Eskimo Asszony Fazik 0085512

Eskimo Women Feel Cold...
One of my old time favorite movie: this is a classic Hungarian from the late 80s. The music is from the New Wave group Trabant, the singer is Marietta Mehes. The film also features an other New Wave group, the A.E Bizottsag. (Albert Einstein Committee).
The movie is a sad love triangle around Marietta . She played in an other movie from Gabor Body (A Kutya Eji Dala - The dog's Night Song) which is a very dark art movie. The scene here is when she says goodbye to her deaf friend, and her lover lies behind the drums, stabbed to death.
The movie touches many layers: the first the artist intellect Laci (Boguslaw Linda) rebels against... parents, world, everything. He finds a new life with Mari (Mehes Marietta), the simple goodhearted caretaker of the deaf husband Janos (Lukats Andor). Their bond is from the misery, where the artist is an alien. They form a rock group, making bitter sad songs, exposing the common depression of the misunderstood life.


One of the best thing about these movies is that they show how vivid alternative music life was at the time in Hungary. The feeling, the songs are unrepeatable experiences. I am just amazed that I have a way to touch this level of history. You can still feel the power of creativity, and the art-genius behind all of these.
When I realized the importance of this art I was 19 years old. Now I am 20 years older. The power, the gravity of the words are still shocking. The feeling did not changed much. And the deaf guy for me is the figure I see as Gyula Marton from my favorite book.

I will insert here a 'feel-good' song from the eighties Hungary (lyrics of the inserted song):

Trabant: You know that Never

You know that this never ends
You know how much is enough.
I‘d like a shelter in my brain
I just want to survive

Today arrived for the yesterday,
Tomorrow it will be the same
You are gone, useless to wait
But I am OK if you don’t miss me

I am waiting soon for nothing,
You see – everything is closed.
I don’t leave, though you ask me
I won’t find you anyway

I won’t go though you’d like me
This city is empty for long
I don’t believe, though you ask me,
Don’t understand, why talk

I hibernate in the summer
I can’t find the words,
These nights are horrible,
If you don’t catch me I’d fall

I am fallen and crashed,
I see myself in the mirror,
Shining face in the darkness,
Tired and broken

I looked, and crashed,
This is better than I thought,
I feel either good or bad,
I was not and now I am

You know that this never ends
You know how much is enough.
I‘d like a shelter in my brain
I just want to survive

Today arrived for the yesterday,
Tomorrow it will be the same
You are gone, useless to wait
But I am OK if you don’t miss me

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