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Ohjaaja Heddy Honigmann käsittelee rankkaa aihetta persoonallisen hienovaraisesti. Hollantilaiset YK:n rauhaturvaajat muistelevat Koreassa, Ruandassa, Kambodzhassa ja Bosniassa kokemiaan tapahtumia musiikin avulla.
Dokumenttiprojektin elokuvassa Crazy selvitetään sotilas kerrallaan, miksi joku musiikkikappale liittyy heidän mielessään sodan tapahtumiin. Sitten se kappale soitetaan ja näytetään haastateltava sitä kuuntelemassa. Välillä kuvituksena on arkistokuvia.
Musiikki tuntuu siirtävän haastateltavien tunteet katsojaan henkilökohtaisemmin ja syvemmin kuin monin sanoin kerrotut tarinat.
Yksi sotilas kertoo, miten hän rajujen pommitusten aikana huudatti täysillä Guns'n'Rosesin musiikkia. Yksi käytti musiikki pelkojensa poistamiseen, yksi hiljentymiseen.
Crazy näyttää paitsi sodan mielettömyyden myös musiikin terapeuttisen voiman, kun ihmisen täytyy selviytyä äärimmäisen vaikeissa olosuhteissa.
- Ohjaaja: Heddy Honigmann
- Tuotanto: Pieter van Huystee Film, Hollanti, 1999
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Crazy is a film about violence in which violence itself is not explicitly shown. The film focusses on the experiences of a number of Dutch UN soldiers in various hotbeds across the world, but he horrors in Korea, Cambodia, Lebanon and Bosnia are brought to life mainly by their personal accounts.
Heddy Honigmann spoke with the 'blue helmets' in their domestic surroundings. The material showing the regions involved consists of photographs and home movies that were shot by the soldiers themselves. The vehicle of their recollections is the music they played at the time, which they will forever associate with their war memories. One of them used his music space with Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, where she could be alone with her thoughts. With a mixture of bravura and emotion, a boy from the south of the Netherlands tells about the perilous rides he made through 'bomb alley' in Bosnia, invariably playing music Guns 'n' Roses at full blast. Another was impotently standing by at the time of the massacre of refugees in Srebrenica, and back home in his living room he listens almost motionless to U2's Sunday, Bloody Sunday.
Crazy demonstrates that Holland also has its 'Vietnam veterans', men who took their war experiences back home and need a long time to cope with them. It is a film that makes us realise the madness of war, causes doubt about the usefulness of so-called peace missions, and shoes the power of music as a means to survive in extremely difficult situations.
- Director: Heddy Honigmann
- Production: Pieter van Huystee Film, Holland 1999
Päivitys: 9.10.2001 U.E.
