Entering the super-reality asAndre Bretonexplains, allows for a reconciliation of contradictions via experimental, artistic expression.
Rational thought has no place in this super-reality because even our world itself is filled with irrationality.
As a Cold War-era satire, it examines the division between Capitalist and Socialist ideologies, not unlikeStanley Kubrick’sDr.
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Strangelove.Created in such a politically repressive regime it remains surprising thatDaisiesmanaged to be released at all.
The wanton nature ofDaisiesrefers to the decadence and gluttony exhibited in both its content and chaotic style.
How do you know you exist?
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asks Marie I, to which Marie II replies, Because of you!
Here Chytilova plays with a series of contradictions where seemingly simplistic thoughts become intertwined with irrational actions and parameters.
Nothing makes sense in the world ofDaisiesand yet within the chaos are rather thought-provoking conversations.
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The two Maries are constantly eating, regardless of expected manners, and food remains their most important concern.
I love food, Marie II declares, Its delicious.
Chytilovas chaotic style is a fundamental part of her cinematic and ideological resistance.
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The film seemingly arbitrarily shifts from a shadowy, black-and-white color scheme to a vibrant, technicolor one.
This scene is bizarrely interspersed with creaking sounds and real-life footage of a building collapse without any explanation.
ChytilovasDaisesremains unbound by convention and cleverly resists against uniformity by lacking any perceivable cohesion.
While the Czechoslovakian regime repressed ideological differences, Chytilova married a series of contradictions to express her discontent.
