The feeling of the film is shocking and brutal, and Andrei Sarkinsev's shots are very similar to Tarkovsky's shots, the passing time and the dreamlike shots.
The director was very reluctant to explain the story, but gave a very simple summary: from mother to father.
For twelve years, there was no father. The two sons lived with their mother. The mother was more like a safe haven, taking care of the two fledgling chicks. The youngest son did not dare to jump off the high platform. The mother herself Climb up to comfort the child. But a father figure without time and space appears at home, a stranger but with absolute authority. Begin to restrain your child's behavior, force feeding, and fight back violently, and take responsibility for your own behavior. The sudden arrival of the father is more like a symbol of the various life encounters faced in life, sudden events, living alone, oppression, sense of responsibility, obedience, and strength.
Why is it cruel? The strong return of the strict father is also a forced confrontation of the child. There is no choice in life, but to face it directly. Compared with the growth of the mother under the swaddle and the father's wind and rain, the latter's life is what a man needs to have. The cowardly and submissive older brother learned to be angry and independent from cruelty, while the unruly younger brother lost his edge and began to learn to take responsibility. It is hard to say which character is better under education or cruelty. I prefer to understand it from the perspective of life and growth. As for modern Russia and politics, this country has suffered from wind and frost. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it once lost its direction and bowed its head to the West cowardly. The director also seems to hope that a strong father figure will revive Russia. .
Sarkinsev said in an interview that he cares more about the image of art than the thought. The director does not want to interpret "Return", because the audience has their own feelings, and the interpretation of others is only the feelings of others, which is still a forced feeling, which is unfamiliar to him. Like many movies, a movie with a very strong sense of blurriness has a strong multi-directional feeling. What the movie gives is just a visual image, as for the idea of delivery, a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets. It seems to be closer to the essence of art, the perceptual knowledge of each.
I like the photography of "Return" very much, a kind of cruel and alienated beauty. The blue-gray photography color has both a heavy feeling and a trace of tranquility, and it contains explosive power. The composition of the film is very beautiful, simple and rich, like a piece of art. Sarkinsev is known as the master of modern Russian film, and he is in the same line as Tarkovsky and Sokolov, and continues to pay attention.
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