As you sow, so you reap -, Dragan Nikolić mocks this proverb in the brilliant film "Young and Healthy as a Rose" from 1971. He says that it didn't turn out the way his father taught him, he says "gangsters die in old movies, in life it's the other way around, the summary is: there is justice only in movies". Then, as a proven scumbag and criminal, he says: "We'll see each other again, I'm your future".
That line “I am your future” contributed to the film being banned, to being shelved for several decades, so much so that the actors even forgot they had acted in it. For over 35 years, no one could see it, on the grounds that, among other things, it “corrupts the youth”. Perhaps if it had been corrupted better, they would have turned out better. Today it is cited as a masterpiece, as a preachy film that announced the close cooperation between the state and crime. “I am your future” - that has completely come true.
People (the people still sound pretentious) voted on August 30, 2020 not only to remove DPS from the throne, but to prosecute all those who stole, and there are too many of them. People did not vote for Spajić to be Prime Minister, Mandić to be the Speaker of Parliament, and for Šaranović to be the Minister of Internal Affairs. They voted for something to change, for the better, as soon as possible. It didn't happen, it started and then stopped. And as time goes by, everything goes back to the way it was. All he has to do is come back and everyone will be there like before.
August is approaching, the thirtieth is approaching, and in five years there has been almost no progress. We only see trials postponed indefinitely, we have a tunnel in the middle of the city center under the courts and under the nose of the Government, we play Chetniks and Partizan, and the only thing that is regular is the regular blocking of roads.
The picture is not very pretty, but it is real. If we don't like it, it doesn't mean it isn't true. Gangsters are at large, the vast majority. Like fish, they are caught, kissed and released. No one touches them. We know why. Because they have been controlling all those who should arrest them for a long time and for too long. They dug trenches, filled their pockets, greased whoever they wanted, got everyone into the game and now they are playing. They are stronger than fate, more organized than the police and the prosecutor's office, they worked dedicatedly and they won.
The moral of this thirty-year story of ours is: it pays to be a criminal (which is a paraphrase of a novel by the writer Stipanić from Croatia, It's great to deal with crime).
Yes, the gangsters won. Life is not a movie, so justice will not come by itself. It is inhuman, unchristian and disgusting to expect criminals to exterminate themselves. That used to be the system of the old communist service, they let them work, and when they get stronger, they turn one on the other and bring a new team onto the scene that they can move more easily like pawns. Everything in a circle.
And it's no longer known who is sitting with whom, inspectors, criminals, prosecutors, lawyers, businessmen and politicians. Montenegro is one big table, everyone is rubbing elbows, everyone is in the same boat. The one who set up that system is untouchable, like Tano Karidi, sometimes he throws a statement that makes everything revolve around him. He's kidding, he can be.
They still worship him, they still love him blindly, proving their need for a boss and a stick. They still imitate him, roll their r's, raise their heads and eyebrows. They get fired up for power, displaying their helplessness and unconsciousness. They make up stories about him, they post odes on the internet.
untouchables, it was a terrible title. The Untouchables. But that film is a dream about the fight for justice, the burning, the victory of good over bad. An almost biblical story of good and evil. Our story is too short, not at all cinematic or poetic, and it reads: Gangsters untouchables, gangsters won. Period. The end.
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