Daily Dialogue — April 27, 2017

Radmilo barges into the wedding gown boutique.

RADMILO: We gonna change that shitty color! Into some boring straight…

Outside the window, their pink Mini is parked. Someone has scrawled “faggot pussies“ on it.

RADMILO: I will call the cops.
MIRKO: And what will they do, block the whole street?
LIMUN: Biserka, look the color of that car!

He recognizes Radmilo.

LIMUN: Doctor. What’s up, Doctor? He is that ‘cry pussy’ doctor.
BISERKA: Stop it.
RADMILO: This… your client, threatened me with a gun.
MIRKO: What a gun?
BISERKA: Which gun?
LIMUN: The Beretta, that little nice one.
BISERKA: It’s handsome.
MIRKO: Sorry, but I have to ask you to leave.
LIMUN: Sorry boy, but I am the one who usually throws out people.
BISEKO: Don’t, Mickey. Mister Mirko, he will be fine.
MIRKO: Everything’s fine!
LIMUN: I will handle that!
RADMILO: I think you heard my partner.
LIMUN: Oh, Doctor, business partner… You are a businessman!
MIRKO: No business, he is my boyfriend. Get it, we are fags, faggots! Are you not ashamed that a faggot plans your wedding.
LIMUN: You are insane, boy!

He grabs Mirko by his t-shirt.

MIRKO: Do not mess my t-shirt.

Then Limun shoves him down atop the glass table.

BISERKA: You animal!

Limun stomps out of the shop.

BISERKA: I am sorry. I do not know what to do. He is not a bad man.
RADMILO: Please just go!
BISERKA: I do not know how I will spend my life with someone who acts like this.

— Parada (2011), written by Srdjan Dragojevic

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coming Out, suggested by Angry Cyborg. Today’s recommendation by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Despite controversy within the subject, the film reached 330,000 admissions in Serbian cinemas after 12 weeks of distribution and 600,000 admissions in Yugosphere.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “‘A homophobic, middle-aged, Serbian gangster ends up sacrificing himself to protect Gay freedom in his country.’ That’s the key-scene why Limun has to do this. When he attacks Mikro, Biserka seriously thinks about leaving him. Limun has to protect the gay people and the parade to keep his girl. What’s so funny about that dialogue, that it’s literally written down that Mirko and Radmilo are gay. But though Limun swears about “fags“ all the time, he could not even imagine that somebody around him could be a homosexual. Limun doesn’t get it it until Mirko speaks it out loud. And it also shows how brave Mirko is. Despite he knows that Limun spent time in prison and threatened his partner with a gun, he forces Limun to leave.”