During this period, socialist realism, which had a great influence, had a new development, and "Ivan's Childhood" was produced in this change.
The deep mental trauma caused by the sacrifice of 20 million people in the anti-fascist war is still flowing in their blood, and the tears of orphans and widows have not yet dried up, and new wars may break out at any time in the Cold War state. This movie is about the emotions of the above times.
There are so many dreams and so many dreamy long shots in the film, why do you still call him a realist? Because what he describes is a living person, a person with a real soul created by the times.
The protagonist, Ivan, has completed the task that adults can't accomplish. However, the film does not extol the existence of the fighting hero, but depicts a soul distorted by war. He is a boy with a strong will, a conservative A boy devastated by war, a boy who was once clear but now full of hatred, even in the photos left in the last moments of his life, his eyes are full of anger. The innocent side will still exist in his dreams, but then it will evolve into a nightmare, which is also doomed to his tragic ending. The product of the war is bound to perish in the war.
As Sartre said, "This boy is neither good nor evil", the world works like this, no one is absolutely good, and there is no absolute evil, and the same is true for other characters in the movie, but each character has its own characteristics, There are commonalities and uniqueness. The commonality comes from the times, and the uniqueness comes from the heart. No one is a fearless and perfect hero.
War, the film does not describe characters, but war!
Ivan's soul was born in war and died in war; old people in the ruins lost their loved ones and lost their souls in war; Colin died in war; after the war was won there was only a short period of joy (really short, two a shot, one brushstroke); Gokson lived to the end, only to be lost.
"God, when will this all end?"
"Will this be the last war in the world?"
This is a movie that describes war. The twisted souls in the war seek a way to live in the brutal trampling of war, and also seek the release of death.
Maybe I couldn't bear to let the weak soul of Ivan disappear in the war. The director finally gave Ivan a paradise. The mother in heaven wiped the sweat from her forehead with a smile, and the children of heaven laughed wantonly. Ivan runs wildly.
Tarkovsky is a poet's child after all, and he tells a cruel thing in a poetic way. However, this cruel contrast brings the deepest touch and reflection. Why do human beings start wars and when will this end? , history is cruel, even so, it must be faced poetically.
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