The distortions and perversions brought about by politics can only be countered and ridiculed with normality and rationality. The estrangement and hatred brought about by politics can only be bridged and resolved by the common language of mankind - music.
From Stalin to Khrushchev to Bozhilenev, there has never been a lack of political movements, political persecutions, and political purges. This is another form of Nazism, totalitarian ugliness that disgusts all good people.
For the Chinese, those unimaginable scenes of persecution are not unfamiliar and understandable. How many of us were persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution? How distorted has human nature been? The persecution and chaos caused by the political movement have allowed all kinds of ugliness to flourish.
Finally returned to normal, China's reform and opening up. Finally back to normal, the Soviet Union disintegrated. However, those lessons, those scars, those human ugliness, those totalitarian violence should not be numbly forgotten.
However, this film does not regard these pains as an "unbearable weight". It mocks the absurd times of the past with a kind of French humor, which makes people laugh and cry.
Music is the greatest language, it can instantly communicate with the most different people. While the Soviet-Russian Empire was like a monster in the eyes of Westerners, music could quickly make people on both sides of the divide communicate, understand and respect.
Despite Russia's temporary poverty, even though Russia lost to the West at the end of the 20th century, Russia cannot be underestimated, they have their dignity, and they know how to maintain their dignity. In the film, the Russian conductor chose to play the works of Tchaikovsky, the great composer of his country, which is undoubtedly a kind of inner pride. You can hear the pride of the Russians, and the backbone of the Russians.
The distortions brought about by politics returned to normal when orchestras, orchestra conductors and female musicians played the strongest notes of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. The human wounds of politics are healed when the female musician finally learns of her final origins.
Yes, politics are like clouds, music is forever.
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