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Montenegro (1981)
What are pearls in the eyes of a pig?
Pearls?: Nursery rhymes (sound track lyric) are templates for future behaviors. Pigs?: Read this review to decide for yourself if hogs look better with ear-rings and lipstick. Montenegro: I have yet to read Rex Stout's prewar novel Over My Dead Body and the novel which followed when Tito came on stage, The Black Mountain. Anyone interested in how to fight society's anti-libido, control freak, exploitive mindset which Makavejev describes quite well in several of his works, may want to consider how humor, as he points out in interviews and with this film, succeeds in doing so. Reading Listen Little Man and Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich or Charles Konia's The Emotional Plague may open a heart or two to better appreciate Makavejev's subtle contrasts. Nobel Prize receiver, Doris Lessing's 1971 Briefing for a Descent into Hell shares a similar Balkan story about making choices shortly before punk rock lyrics hit the scene to remind us of what we look like from our mirrors' lighter, more honest side. Marianne Faithful's ballad for "Lucy Jordan" found love hidden between the lines in this story's corners.