Como Fui Sistematicamente Arruinado por um Idiota

This summer I had the great luck to see this movie by pure accident. During the film festival I wanted to see another movie, but this one was shown outside and I preferred fresh air, so I stayed there without even knowing what I'll see. Then Šijan came to the mike and announced this movie. All of us there were fascinated! So it's not so much a movie about a person trying to cope with Che's death, as it's a movie about a guy, who wants to cope with his life. He's a bum, but entirely out of his own laziness. He always blamed somebody or something for his lack of privileged life.

Although this movie was said to be political, it really isn't. It's almost a documentary of the part of Yugoslavian society that wasn't suppose to exist. In the developed socialistic country there should be no beggars and everybody should want to work, for it was their privilege and right to work.

So watch it, laugh at it, but try and imagine it is all true, because it's very close to reality.

I saw this movie recently, but the mistake was I didn't see it before! It's genies! The portrayal of a communist and Che Guevara fanatic from a village in Serbia who lives and lectures in Belgrade is already comic enough. The movie pretty much follows the adventures of Babi Papuska (played by Danilo Bata Stojkovic) and the death of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, the fact that Babi took pretty bad. In fear that communist ideology might die with Guevara, he assumes that he needs to take his role and keep communism alive. He is also in a certain age, yet he has never led a revolution and is frustrated because of that fact. Every line in the movie is hilarious, it shows the mentality of Serbian people, it shows the silly fear and anxiety that communism has brought to Yugoslavia. Excellent!

This is a very humorous movie about communism and Marxism, or rather, communists and Marxists. It follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

Sijan gives a funny portray of his world and jokes about many caste of people in Yugoslavia at that time. He is using his famous and recognizable subtle humor, which combined with fine acting and a great overall story, results in a great piece of art.

Characteristic for Sijan's movies, this one also contains some fantastic and quotable one-liners. My favorite by far is: "Ovo nije brada klanja, ovo je brada razocaranja!" (this is not a beard of slaughter, this is a beard of disappointment), referring to the main character's Marxist, and not nationalist nature.