"Return" can be interpreted from many angles. It can be regarded as a growing up story about the love of father and son, or it can be regarded as a grand political metaphor. My father disappeared for 12 years, a time span that happened to be as long as the collapse of the Soviet Union at the time. The director compared the relationship between father and son to the spiritual loss and historical confusion of the Russian nation after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The painful and tangled "psychological Tai Chi" between the son and the father is exactly the pain and sorrow of the Russian nation after the dream of a great empire is broken. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian nation was like a child who suddenly left his strict father. Although he breathed the air of freedom, he did not know where the new direction was. The different reactions of the two brothers to their father also represent the subtle mentality of the people towards the Soviet Union. The elder brother’s acceptance and obedience to the patriarchy are the subconscious dependence and yearning of the Russian nation for the powerful “tsar”, while the younger brother’s resistance to the patriarchy It also represents the people's resentment for the power and autocracy of the CPSU and tossing the people. At the end of the film, the father who fell from the tower to protect his child is the old Soviet Union who loved the Russian nation deeply, but could not find the right way, and was finally abandoned by the times. The children tried to drag their father's body ashore, but could only watch him sink to the bottom of the lake. In the end, even the younger brother, who was most keen to rebel against the patriarchy, shouted: Dad! At this moment, the hidden complex of the Russian nation towards the Soviet Union's father-killing and Electra was uprooted.
The pictures that are always cool tones make people look at the story itself with a calm attitude, it is difficult to bring into the characters, and it is more deeply to see everything from the perspective of a bystander. The cool tones also greatly change the mood of the video viewer, which is quite gloomy.
There is also the minimalist set, the slow movement of the camera, which is not only reminiscent of Tarkovsky's films, but it feels less clear and rather blurry.
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