"Burnt by the Sun", through the experience of the national hero Red Army Colonel Kotov, portrays the great pain caused to the people by the protracted "rebellion" campaign. The film does not use the cold tones and fierce struggle scenes that are used to portray political reality, but freezes the picture in the morning breeze wrapped in the fragrance of the country, the rolling golden wheat field, the singing of the mother, the sweet smile of the wife and the daughter The little embrace. But in such a rich and warm atmosphere, there are blood, tears, conflicts, anxiety and violence hidden. Director Nikita Mikhalkov created this work with tragic emotions based on the Soviet political repression in the 1930s. He did not do too much questioning and too harsh criticism, but calmly narrated the victim’s face to the motherland. The unspeakable pain and the scars that cannot be healed at the time of the rebellion and the parting of relatives. In order to reflect the cruelty of the theme, the director also inserted a large number of picturesque pastoral scenes in the film, bringing into full play the combination of Russian poetic film aesthetics and emotional infection. Perhaps only this harmonious and strong contrast can be appropriate. Show that kind of scorching sun.
Although "Burnt by the Sun" is not a political film, as a work full of strong political reality, it always puts humanity on the political touchstone for torture. As a film reflecting on history, "Burnt by the Sun" did not simply use good people to be framed and bad people to take the opportunity to do evil to summarize and understand the horror of the political environment at that time. The film did not establish the kind of moral hero who can stand alone in the face of evil. Nor did he portray a revolutionary hero who laughs proudly and persecutes, and who can sing wine and sing in the face of death. The director did not use the story of personal accidental suffering to dissolve or interpret the absurdity of that era, but to describe the circumstances faced by people in a specific social period, thus deeply revealing some of the nature and status of Stalin’s totalitarian rule. The manifestation of human nature under this system. The film used warm yellow tones, high-light and soft-focus lenses to create the atmosphere of the former Soviet Union in the 1830s, creating a nostalgic atmosphere, contrasting the cruelty of the big cleaning with idyllic pictures, but more importantly Sing an ode to the friendly and happy life of ordinary people in the 1830s. Through those soft pictures, let the audience feel the director's nostalgia and praise for the simple life of that era.
