The male protagonist of this film is a Polish artist during the Cold War, who grew up in the socialist camp and is committed to collecting folk songs and dances as creative materials and adapting them. The male protagonist selected and trained the singer and the female protagonist. The two fell in love and knew each other, but fate was tricky. This film tells the poignant love story of the two interspersed between the east and west camps. This movie is a movie with a very personal aspect ratio. His screen is close to a square screen, but because it is a black and white movie, the special proportions do not make people feel awkward, but on the contrary, there is a feeling that the whole body is fat and thin. The film does not deliberately exaggerate the confrontation between the East and West camps and the right or wrong of political views. It just uses the Cold War as a background and tries to show that period as objectively as possible. The taste of it, the audience needs to experience it for themselves.
After the success of the male protagonist's first performance, the banquet scene was very amazing. At first, the male protagonist and his colleagues looked at the banquet crowd with their backs to the mirror. The audience would think that the male protagonist was in the banquet crowd, until someone spoke to the male protagonist with their backs to the audience. It was only when he discovered that there was a person in the mirror behind the male protagonist moving in sync with him, and then he further discovered that it was a mirror, and the male protagonist was standing at the very edge of the banquet. This shot very subtly shows the fact that the male protagonist seems to be standing in the middle of the stage, but is actually incompatible with the surrounding socialist camp. The director is a genius. There was a scene after that. After the hero and heroine quarreled, the heroine jumped into the river and sang with the waves. After the male protagonist escaped from the socialist camp in Berlin, the first picture is of a jazz band playing, using the musical notation of jazz to tell you that he has switched to the capitalist camp. In the film, there is a song sung by the male lead arranger and the female lead. There are three versions. The first is the original national flavor, the second is after the transformation of socialist values, and the third is the capitalist jazz version. I like the jazz version because I like jazz. In the film, the male protagonist talks with Polish officials in order to find a female protagonist who returns to Poland alone. The official said that he defected and was not patriotic. But for an artist who likes local music and is willing to travel all over the territory of the motherland to visit and record folk songs from all over the world, what is patriotism? The narrative of this film often omits the process and only talks about the results, like the heroine sleeps with the hero without knowing the process, the hero defected without knowing the process, and so on, which matches the cold tone of the black-and-white film.
Because there are "artistic troupes" in the film, it will definitely be compared with "Youth". And I am a person who will give "The Wandering Earth" 8.5 points and "I'm Not the God of Medicine" 8.4 points. I like Chinese local movies very much, but I still have to admit that "Youth" is not as good as "Youth", and "Youth" is 7 points That grade, the film 8.2 points.
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