The clip I chose was the one where Ivan and the old man meet after escaping from the military camp. At first, the old man's chicken was shot, then Ivan stood up from the ground (close-up shot), the old man pulled the chicken down from the roof with a rope (upward shot), Ivan stepped forward, and the old man sang and went back and forth beside a room Wandering as if looking for something (long shot), Ivan communicates with the old man (long shot), Ivan walks away, the old man is calmly muttering to himself with sadness and anger about his wife (long shot close-up) , the camera switched between Ivan and the old man, and then the sound transition switched to an upright wooden block, a board was bent down at the top of the wooden block, and then a distant shot of the place where the old man and Ivan were talking, explaining the old man and his wife The place turned out to be in ruins.
I think it's a jigsaw puzzle that perfectly constructs the crowd in the movie. Ivan's tragedy reveals the tragedies faced by children during the war, representing groups of teenagers and children; most of the soldiers are young and middle-aged, they can fight against the enemy on the battlefield, and the groups represented are adults and soldiers; Martha The lady at the health station represents women; this old man who is wandering among the ruins and waiting for his wife represents not only the elderly, but also the group that has been destroyed by war. Ivan actually has the characteristics of this group, but he is more about revenge. The old man, on the other hand, is relatively pure, and is the perfect incarnation of the group of "victims of war", revealing the misery of the civilians whose opponents in the war are powerless and cannot even take revenge. It's an indictment of war.
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