Victor, talented, not revealing but infatuated, the part where the film begins to play Chopin's "Improvisation" vividly reflects his unique artistic temperament. Zura, beautiful and sensual, although like a piece of jade, inevitably exudes a seductive brilliance. As soon as the two met, they were attracted by each other's charm, so they deduced a tragic love story, until they both took poison and ran to the other side of the beautiful together. After watching the movie, many people couldn't help but sigh, "Is Zura doing too much?" At first, they were reluctant to defect to the West with Victor. The conflict between Zula broke out, Zula returned to Poland, and Victor would rather go back to prison in order to pursue Zula, which eventually led to tragedy.
I want to say that those who "sigh about Zura's work" may not understand the director's deeper intentions, and his purpose is not just to shoot a love story. The background of the Cold War era is the real reason for all these tragedies. The love between Zula and Victor was full of insecurity from the very beginning. The administrative officer in the art troupe coveted Zula, and even when he possessed her, he even asked her to monitor and regularly report on Victor's thoughts. , In fact, from the beginning this love is doomed to be distorted. When the two lived in Paris, they both acted as defectors from Eastern Europe, and the feeling of being under the fence brought great difficulties to identity for a sensitive latecomer like Zula, and also prevented her from creating a peace-keeping. Kedo's two-person world also made the final rupture and her departure inevitable. It can be said that although the occurrence of tragedy is due to character, it is the inevitable result of the times. The actor who plays Victor looks a bit like Daniel Day-Lewis, which reminds me of the movie "Love in Prague" based on Milan Kundera's famous novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" starring Lewis, almost A love story in the context of the Cold War, and the end is also a tragedy. The only difference is that the hero has finally accepted the reality and is willing to live a mediocre life, but he has a car accident after a night of fun in a tavern.
Although there are various types of love stories, ordinary audiences still like to see happy endings. However, in a rapidly changing and contradictory external environment, good things can only be for a brief moment, like a short-lived flash in the pan, and the beauty of this moment often makes us even more sighed at the final outcome. Human beings are insignificant to the world, like a small boat floating on the vast sea. And all human activities, including love, cannot exist independently of the times. If you live in the environment where the movie was shot, the protagonist still wants to taste the nectar of love, which is tantamount to a dream. In the movie, Viktor met Zula for the first time after fleeing Poland, and asked "why didn't she escape with him according to the prior agreement with him", Zura replied, "She feels that the ending will not be good." Really, sometimes you have to admire women's intuition!
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