I remember about the second grade of elementary school that year, watching TV and doing homework at the home of my classmates. There was a movie on the TV, and the plot was blurred, but I only remember one scene: the foreign guns and guns of the Eight-Power Allied Forces shot and killed the Qing cavalry with knives and guns, and a group of people rushed behind them with knives and guns waving knives and guns. Go up, fall down again, charge again and again like this, until the whole army is killed, this is such a disparity battle. I shouted, "Oh my God! It's not fair! Don't go up there, don't fight like this!" Two of my classmates laughed at me by the side, "It's all fake to act on TV, it's a lie. Yes, people are not actually dead, hahahaha, why are you still crying, you are too interesting." Afterwards, I also thought that I was too "interesting". ("Interesting" has many derivative meanings in the local dialect, please understand it yourself.)
The first time I showed my "dumb" sensibility was dedicated to this film. After many years, I haven't taken this movie out to rewatch it. The emotional side gradually disappears after work, and Leo's personality becomes more and more prominent. I watched movies and TV for many years and never cried again, and I was proud of it, until I became a mother later. It seems that only after becoming a mother can I truly understand, or really return to the true face of being a woman. Women are maternal, soft, tough, and at the same time can show weakness.
The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest and most brutal wars in the history of World War II, and I was fully prepared. However, at the beginning of the opening, the Soviet troops who were about to land were ignited by the flames of the explosion of the oil depot. Countless Soviet troops who were on fire still stood up and rushed to the German machine guns at the last moment of their lives, hugging and dying with the Germans. Such a scene, under the visual impact of the big screen, still made me unable to look directly and directly covered my eyes. If you really want to come, you have to be patient and soft-hearted, but you just can't face it. These scenes are very shocking, and you can't substitute them. You don't have time to think: if it was you, you were burned by the fire in despair, can you still rush forward in the last few seconds of your life?
I thought that this film should describe the sense of justice and mission of anti-aggression, which is the theme of the war movie and television of my Chaogao Daquan for many years. As a righteous Russian, director Fedor Bondarchuk was able to describe the bloodiest confrontation in history in such a less subjective way, without even making a direct praise or judgment. Of course, there is still a tendency to defend the homeland against aggression, which is originally natural justice. However, the enemy German Nazi fascists in the film are not afraid of death, they are tough guys, and there are young soldiers who enter the battlefield without knowing what war is about. They love, love women, love their homeland, love their country, and love God.
One aspect I like about this director is that he does not present the strong visual impact like in Hollywood movies and domestic imitation Hollywood movies, and does not magnify and close up the disgusting bloody scenes. Tough men face death without fear, and even the nostalgia and struggle before death are not deliberately described. I am very willing to interpret this kind of heart into the warmth and compassion of human nature.
Officers from the German regular army, cursed for shooting black guns, speculation and sneak attacks. In the eyes of the regular army, the guerrillas who are portrayed as gods in Chinese film and television works are all means of scumbags. my country's film and television have maintained their worship of guerrilla warfare, and Russia, which was once the Soviet Union, has begun to face its past self. I think this is the real strength. Since when, we have naturally believed that as long as we win, we don't have to care about any means. I'm not going to discuss that here, just what exactly is supporting the determination to win. The German army was going to fight for the house occupied by the Soviet partisans. The commander asked the soldier, why do you think you can win? The soldier said, God bless me. The German colonel said, our God is our head of state, and behind that house is Germany. Fight for the Führer, fight for Germany! The power of the slogan is here, and there is no time to distinguish, who is fighting for who, the blood has already burned, and it has become a machine tank gun, banging to the front line, without any thought, only one purpose, to destroy the target for the country, This is the soldier. What for the country? For the expansion of the country? For the desire of the people of this country to expand outward? The German officer pointed very clearly, and he knew very well that God was not on this side. So, he said, the head of state is God, and behind this house is Germany, so the belief in serving the country in this way has become natural justice.
At the same time, the Soviet army defending the house, what is the perseverance that supports winning? After his powerful opening, the director used a very slow shot to describe what was supporting the Soviet army. In the film, the heroine Kajia appeared, young, thin, and with a persistent belief. She insisted that she would not leave the house in the ruins. She said that this was her home, and she was taking care of her family and neighbors who died in the war because she did not leave. When the slogan of defending the home falls into protecting a woman, the film begins to slow down. What supports them is no longer the military concept of natural sense of justice, nor the courage to meet the brave to win, both of which are also in the German army.
Please go away from those lewd thoughts of finding a father for the child, and please go away from those boring discussions about which man Kaja loves the most. At this point Kaja was not just a woman or a pretty girl, nor was it a hot fantasy in the eyes of a man who hadn't seen a woman in months. She represents all the characteristics that God has given to women: gentleness, strength, persistence, and reproduction, in stark contrast to the ruthless cruelty and bloody death of war, evoking the warmest, most sensual, and essential side of human nature. Let you understand that man is not a machine in war, not a stepping stone to die under the slogan. Knowing that all your sacrifices and sacrifices are worth it, even if it's just to surprise her on her birthday. Because behind her is the homeland, the home of the entire Stalingrad, Russia, and even the warm hope left after the destruction of the entire human war or other natural and man-made disasters.
Such hope will be blessed by God. In that God-assisted house, the woman who was cared for by God survived. The rest are dead.
The love between five men and Kaja is not love in the traditional sense. It includes a father's love for his daughter, a husband's respect for his wife, the first love of a shy boy, and the nostalgia for motherhood. Love is very simple, heart and sex. The same is true for Kaja. Love in the fire of war is so simple, it does not care whether the past or the future is suitable or not, there is no moral shackles and ideological burden, and there is no blasphemy.
In the two love lines, there is also the love between the German colonel and the Russian woman. Love originally knows no borders, even if the language does not speak, even if the stand is against each other. Although from the beginning, I knew that this was a tragedy that was destined to be unable to reconcile contradictions, and it was an inevitable handwriting left for the conflict of the plot. However, when I saw the Russian woman Martha was attacked and fell down, I still couldn't help but feel nervous. You know, war The love sacrificed here is more than this couple. I suddenly want to digress. From the perspective of film and television works, women's attitude towards feelings is really no different from all over the world. However, only after experiencing sex can they develop or release a strong attachment to men.
Many people find this movie boring, and here it is. I originally thought I was going to watch a visual blockbuster of a meat grinder, but who knew that it was just two love stories in the context of war. The story had no novelty, the characters were the same, lacked personality, and even habitually, there would be a soldier who saved the world who survived and reorganized the family with a woman no good wishes. There are a lot of Hollywood blockbusters this year, all kinds of luxury car chases, all kinds of explosions, high-rise buildings collapsed, the sky is torn apart, and all kinds of scenes that make people feel bloody, have you ever wondered what is left after the sensory stimulation? In recent years, people have higher and higher requirements for perception, more and more requirements for plot twists and turns, but the feeling of the essence of things has become weaker and weaker, as if only surprises and delights can truly impact life experience.
The above are just some of the feelings of an audience who doesn't like watching war movies, and some subjective biases and preferences. I hope my friends can tap. This film has not changed my disgust for the cruelty and blood of war itself, but fortunately there is some warmth that I like, which makes me no longer avoid the background of war itself. The most unbearable part of this film is the dubbing, so I have to download the original version and watch it again.
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