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After the perfect online introductory campaign, Orbán’s most entertaining product of cultural politics to date, the government body’s investigative animation film called the Hungarian Research Institute on the Battle of Bratislava in 907, was released on Monday by the night.
The work of art, whose proclaimer was more than promising, did not reveal facts about the battle between the German army and the Hungarians, gathered at the invitation of King Louis of the East, because this was impossible for objective reasons. Therefore, the creators chose a different direction. Logically, two options would have been given:
- Make a film about how, according to the current state of science, Westerners (East Franks), effective in open field battles based on armored cavalry and based on agile archers and light cavalry, avoided large open confrontations. then a Hungarian army employing retreating guerilla tactics in the early 10th century;
- or they get carried away better and create an alternative past as colorful, wild, adventurous, but possible.
However, the creators chose a third path if they were shooting an investigative movie,
but not about the battle of Bratislava itself, but about the nature of populism and the phenomenon of how silly it is to uncritically absorb the favorite pseudoscience of retired engineers, medical professors, and other great-uncles, zizzent.
According to the creators themselves, the work aimed at attracting the attention of adolescents begins immediately with a verbal nod to adults. In the narrator’s text, it is stated with a facade, as a fact, that the Frankish King Louis the Child sent the German armies to Pannonia with the instruction that
“Ugra eliminating esse. We order the Hungarians to exterminate. Louis, the King of the Franks, orders this. ”
The mood of the entire film and the interpretive framework of the battle. “The Hungarians who fought for their existence faced the Westerners who came to exterminate an entire people” – Create three sentences, each one false in one way or another. That is, the three minimums are misleading.
The Latin sentence quoted does not sound like this in the first place, but completely like “There is determination of the opinion Ugros Boiariae kingdom to eliminate it.” It is no coincidence that “Boiariae regno”, that is to say, from Bavaria, was left out of it. And the appointment is not even in IX-X. It actually comes from King Louis, who lived in the early 19th century, but it is a quote from a work by the Bavarian humanist Aventius, who lived half a millennium later. And this, according to historians familiar with medieval Latin, does not mean that the king ordered the extermination of the Hungarians, but that the East Frankish nobles decided that the Hungarians should be expelled from Bavaria. Where, I am already adding this as an explanation, at that time several robbery campaigns were carried out.
In other words, the German troops presumably did not arrive in Pannonia, which borders its provinces, for genocidal purposes, which would have been an inability compared to the size and infrastructure of Western armies of the time, but to dissuade the Hungarians from go into adventures.
By presenting a known theory based on a misinterpretation with a trembling face on the only objectively discernible element of the entire story in the entire story, the film taught more about the nature of populism and why people are willing to spread exposed fake news. than 333 smart items.
Fortunately, after the initial introduction, the creators voted more for visual entertainment that forgets itself.
It was already clear from the movie preview and the team’s statements that the goal was not to create a kind of quasi-perfect 3D world at the level of the Lord of the Rings, but to create an illusion with games using a computer game engine. . familiar to the imagined audience.
That is why I was sure that compared to the preview, the entire 52-minute movie would not consist solely of such animations, but the animated battle scenes during the filming of the location and the protagonists would help to imagine what could have happened. in Bratislava if they had fought there. battle.
Well, it didn’t happen that way. The 52 minutes are like an inset animation connecting a fun old clue game. Since no jokes are known in animation, the quality parade cannot be bored for a surprisingly long time. It is terrible from the beginning that the faces of the human characters are not really animated, so the paralyzed face fights
With deadpan zombies and terminal-stage depressed eyes with amphetamine overdose,
while horses and deer die with a set of faces like a character from Whimsical Seasons.
The level of detail with which the background and actors were developed was obviously a function of the technology used and the budget. But the movie is also full of fantastic mistakes compared to that. From the shaman lagging behind, from the sudden electric shock to the horses dancing in controversy and the naked jurors shaking their flatworm bodies, to the foot soldiers who began to walk on the moon at the most unexpected moments, they left many small fountains. of joy at work.
Public order did not do well now, IX.-X. For example, repulsive spider-man hybrids worked on Hungarian farmlands in the 19th century, although this was perhaps not so surprising in the environment where the equestrian fighting style was cultivated. In the film, whoever does manual work has disproportionately nodular humps.
In the film, the scenes of the specific campaign alternate with blocks representing the everyday and important public events of the Hungarians of the time. A flawless episode is the fight of the Hungarian public hunter with facial nerve palsy with the sick deer of Blaha Lujza, which finally puts the XXI. The fight against swine fever by the Hungarian veterinary authorities in the 19th century.
But the film’s prominent scenes also include the blood contract signed between the Hungarians and the Goos at the Ozora festival.
Perhaps the most real, however, is the death of Árpád, when the bearded man in good arms, up to the snout, suddenly rolls his eyes and becomes Lenin embalmed.
The inclusion of Hungarian variegated cows raised 900 years later was, I think, deliberate trolling.
In addition to the humorous episodes, the movie is sometimes quite dramatic. He blatantly talks, for example, of how terrible it could have been to be a sexually mature man in a society where just one-tenth of the rural civilian population was made up of women, all the rest were men.
However hilarious the film’s visual garbage aesthetic is, the verbatim parts tend to be scary.
Since it is a reconstruction of a fact about which we have less knowledge than a fragment, there is nothing wrong with the film creating an alternate reality, that is, telling a story that did not happen in this way with good possibilities. But it’s one thing to create an alternate universe to put up a victorious battle, and to assert as a completely different fact to teenagers that the Huns were our ancestors or that Attila Álmos was the head of the Turul clan. Or that Árpád led the Hungarian armies in the battle of Bratislava, usually in general, or at the head of his own commando unit, and then died before the end of the battle.
I’m not saying that Árpád shouldn’t fit into a fantasy-based reconstruction, but the movie doesn’t indicate in any way, although they could have done it in a thousand ways, that what we see is not a factual evocation of the past, but a fantasy about a possible past.
However, presenting disability as fact will undoubtedly prepare teenage viewers of the film for real life.
The Battle of Bratislava is such an absurd creation that I can easily imagine that it will survive as a party game. It’s not that exciting to be tied up for 52 minutes alone, but its spooky effect is strong enough, and every few minutes another scene appears so strong that it can serve as the perfect backdrop for a social event of conversation and laughter.
(Thanks to all the readers who took a screenshot
issued !)
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