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Hum/111 Week 2 Term Papers

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Ognjen Svilicic's films a powerful naturalistic drama about bus driver Ivo (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) who lives with his wife Maja (Jasna Žalica). They were people who followed the rules, but the world they lived in did not follow them. The couple did not show much affection at all Tomica (Hrvoje Vladisavljevic), there son, comes home one morning late after spending the night out. His mother becomes concerned about him, he is not eating or talking to them. Finally he emerges and his parents see that he has been badly beaten. His mother who is very worried tells Ivo to take him to the hospital. An unconcerned father takes him to the hospital and the doctor finds nothing wrong with him. The next day, they find their son on the bathroom floor. Through all of this, Ivo showed no emotion, it was like he was just going through the motions of life. …show more content…

Ivo and Maja watched TV together and they were always in the kitchen cooking together which showed their love for one another. Ivo shows his emotion when he decides to get revenge on the guy who beat up his son. He also shows his emotions through cursing. Alissa Simon (2015) says that “his cursing signifies distress”. Ivo curses a lot throughout the film and part of him being distress is from his wife’s nagging at him all the time to do stuff. Even when he is doing work for her, it is not right or it is not the way that she wants it done. The film ends with the couple cooking in the kitchen which symbolizes that they love another and they will always be together through thick and

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