Report on the Film “Black Cat, White Cat” by Emir Custurica Essay

start out chosen to watch and report on the lease Black Cat, washrag Cat by Emir Custurica for several reasons. Firstly, Custurica is a globally famous filmmaker, known in the US for his Arizona day-dream. Secondly, Custurica does pay much attention to matters of culture in his films, so his flora argon very informative. Thirdly the characters of Black Cat, White Cat give-up the ghost to different messs and cultures, including Serbians, Gypsies and Bulgarians. So the film tells enough about cultural and cross-cultural communications.Produced in 1998, the film is a kind of romantic comedy congress a story of several young people in calculate of their bang in the world of gangsters and smugglers. One of those smugglers named Matko Destanov owes money to a gangster named Dadan. Dadan is eager to find a husband for Afrodita his midget sister and he proposes to settle the debt by espousal of Matkos son Zare with his sister. However, Zare is in love with another girl named Ida , and Afrodita dreams o another man. After numerous diverting and dangerous adventures all of the young people find their happiness, and Dadan finds himself in manure both in metaphorical and ordinary sense.The film is very ironic and easy to watch as a family comedy. As I have already noticed, the film tells much about cultural communications. Firstly these are family and friendship. The characters seem to be very family-oriented and beautiful friendship is one of the burden motifs of the story. Young people dream of a family and stable relationships, older people desire to make their children happy as Zares grandfather and all the same such a savage man as Dadan wishes to do the allow of his parents even though through violence. Personal relations are rudimentary forces driving the characters in life, business and even crime.They rely upon help of their pals and relatives in virtually every action they take, thusly playing a silken party game each for own purposes but con sidering the will of the others. This hind end be illustrated by relations of Zare with his grandfather. Zare loves his grandfather and helps him to escape from hospital to payoff to his bacchanalian lifestyle, and the thankful grandfather gives all his money to Zare. Such go on to personal relations is full of traditionalism and is pretty different from the wassail situation in this country.Another cultural aspect, which might seem instead evil in this country is attitude of characters towards law. Throughout the film it may seem that there is no law and legal formalities at all. Customers are easily bribed, medical personnel is unable to control the patients, gangsters move as actual rulers and an official solemnizing a marriages passively does everything what he is say to do, even knowing that marriage between Zare and Afrodita is forcible. However, the characters actually do not feel any discomfort from absence of formalities.Law is replaced by said(prenominal) personal relations, and perhaps they would feel unhappy from presence of legal obligations preferably from absence of such obligations. There are many interesting barbarian cultural details in the film such as marriage customs, costumes, language features and other which, being combined together, create a engrossing impression of involvement in other culture. Films like Black Cat, White Cat cause spectators to become interested in strange lifestyles and habits forming an supposition of global cultural diversity.