The little protagonist Ivan in the film is a fighting hero in the Soviet Red Army, but the director has used a lot of space to express the childhood in Ivan's dreams, especially as a natural child - instead of a red Ivan who appeared in the image of a warrior. There are about three concentrated expressions of this kind of scene. The first is at the beginning of the movie. Ivan chases his mother who is fetching water in the suburbs of Merry, and says, "Mom, there is a cuckoo calling", and then the dream will Shattered by the sound of aircraft strikes. The second is that when Ivan was resting after completing the task, he dreamed that he and his mother were looking into the depths of a well, saying that stars could be seen in the well. Here, the film’s footage naturally shifts to dripping from a well in the dream, as the dripping water from a basin beside Ivan’s bed is a meaningful sign. The quiet well has been broken by terrible wars, but it is still another world hidden in the depths of chaos. At the end of the film, when it comes to Ivan's death, the screen switches to the scene where Ivan is playing with other children, but the background is changed from the trail in the mountains to the vast beach, and finally Ivan runs to his mother, lying in The bucket in front of her echoes the scene at the beginning of the movie.
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