There are many movies that try to tell the background of the times through personal destiny. Most of them just borrowed a historical stage. The screenwriter can also use less effort when thinking about what to use to separate the two. "Cold War" is not. The two, who had fled Poland one after another, had a difficult reunion in Paris. Just when everyone thought they were starting to live a happy life, the two were separated again because of their differences in character and ideas about art, money, and freedom. Zula resolutely returned to Poland, and Wiktor followed, risking being caught. Compared with the star-crossed lovers-style plot that cannot be together due to external factors, I always prefer love stories like Siege and Spring Break, where two people are separated for their own reasons. The Cold War not only made Zula and Wiktor geographically unable to reunite, but also left a deep imprint on their souls, causing the tragedy of their fate. Especially Zula.
When the Parisian girl said to Zula with slight contempt, "You shouldn't have seen this," she retorted, "You should come to Poland to see it."
When Wiktor excitedly took Zula's album and said "our first child" to her, Zula coldly tossed it into the water. She could not accept that the simple folk songs of her hometown were changed into jazz beyond recognition.
So she put on a native turban and returned to Poland. In order to rescue Wiktor from prison, she starts to sing songs she didn't want to sing before, destroying her artistic career. Zula is a spiritual exile. The ideological division and confrontation made her homeless. This is of extraordinary significance to today's world, and it also makes "Cold War" beyond the ordinary love story.
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