Old movies provide creative templates for this film

Speaking of Soviet films, the first thing that comes to mind is nothing more than the outstanding contributions of the old martyrs, led by Eisenstein and Pudovkin, to the development of film, and then the poetic Tarkovsky. Elem Klimov, who was at the same time as Tasmanian, filmed "Go and See by Myself" in 1985. While inheriting the poeticism of the former, it also has the same image as the early Soviet film style: close-ups and close-ups. The repeated use of (especially the congested eyeballs of the cows shot to the ground), a single fixed lens, the intertextuality of sound and images, and the use of ending montages. Most of the time, the camera simply panned, letting the audience "watch it for themselves" on the desolate bombed field and the brutal Nazi slaughter.

The highlight of the film is undoubtedly the use of the end montage. The scene is repeatedly cut between the shooting of a young Hitler portrait and historical images. When the shot is shot, the black-and-white image trembles, and the historical camera rewinds quickly; the shot is shot, the black-and-white image trembles, and the historical camera continues to rewind quickly; the shot is shot, the black-and-white image trembles, and the historical camera rewinds quickly again. The wheels of history rolled backwards, and Hitler finally returned to the childhood in his mother's arms, as if history could be repeated. The next frame cuts to the wooden house in the raging fire, and the cruel reality continues.

Several animals are interspersed in the film to enhance the dull film a lot, but also comes with a lot of content:
Crane: The appearance of the crane is naturally associated with Bunuel. Compared with Bunuel's unreasonable and abrupt insertion of animals, the appearance of a crane whose home has been destroyed has a much more mature and rounded contrast to the theme.
Cow: The owner of the cow is forced to roll on the mud, and the white clothes are covered with black mud. At this moment, the difference between humans and animals is so small.
Lemurs: While giving instructions to kill the Nazi officers, they approached the ugly and ghostly lemurs and looked like family members, reflecting the situation of the Nazis as ghosts and civilians inferior to beasts.

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