Recently, I had the privilege of watching a Russian film called Burning the Sun, a poetic political film. I suddenly thought of Wen Ruian's vocabulary, a gentle knife, which is the most appropriate word to describe this film. Because it really expresses a cruel story with warmth, as if Lin Xian'er's veil covers Gong Gong's guillotine.
The story goes like this.
After the First World War, a certain place in the Soviet Union had a charming idyllic scenery. There lived a family of French aristocratic descendants who had long ceased to be aristocrats. They retained some aristocratic living habits and spoke French. The only non-French-speaking member of the family was the fighting hero Admiral Kotov, because he was a hero of the Soviet Union, a Bolshevik, who did not speak French and did not have the habits of those nobles. Kotov lived here by marrying a young lady of the family, and had a daughter. The family lived a comfortable and peaceful life. Although some small things happened from time to time, they enriched the warm life like a seasoning. At this time, the adopted son of the family, Midea, returned. More than ten years ago, he suddenly disappeared, and no one in the family knew where he went. The person who is most concerned about this issue is Kotoff's wife. Mediah was her boyfriend, and because of this unreasonable disappearance, the young lady of that year has become a woman. The story naturally shifts to the two men, but this is by no means a love story. It turned out that Mediah was a Soviet agent, and his boss at the time was Kotov. Kotov sent Media on a mission to capture traitors, and Media couldn't help himself, but he did it, but lost everything he could get as the adopted son of a nobleman. So he wanted revenge. With his warm language and aristocratic versatility, he stimulated the sensitive nerves of the woman who was not his wife, and made her suffer from the indelible emotions in her heart. As for Kotov, Media, with his special identity and with the help of the personality cult atmosphere created by Stalin at that time, pushed the hero to the position of the enemy of the country. Kotov lost his freedom, and Median finally committed suicide.
This is a very reflective film, Kotov and Mediah are the same kind of people, they use political means to achieve their goals, and the cruelty of human nature is revealed. But the director did not express his words directly. On the contrary, he tried his best to set off the warm and peaceful atmosphere, the beautiful rural scenery, the simple people, and the family relationship between father and daughter, all of which made the audience feel a beautiful and poetic realm. Thus, our justice and hatred have nowhere to vent, as if the world is so beautiful. Looking back on it, human nature is just cruel, it is common to use tricks to achieve the goal, and take revenge when you are unbalanced in your heart. But if the power and political atmosphere are used, then this kind of cruelty of human nature can be brought to the extreme, and then it will be attributed to the torrent of the times. There are many situations in China that are similar to the former Soviet Union, and it is said that they are learned, but I have never seen such in-depth reflection works. Probably, things in Russia are not university-level.
The film has three plots with representational significance. One is the huge portrait of Stalin rising in the sky. This shot reveals the background of the times. The portrait seems to be politics. Whether right or wrong, people must salute it. There seemed to be a hint of gratitude in Media's salute. Another episode is the lost man, who sees Admiral Kotov being captured, and he seems to be the testimony of history. He died under the gun of Mediah. Rather than saying that Mediah kills people, Moruo said that politics can change history and destroy all evidence that can reflect the real history. What's more, this evidence is just a lost person outside the whole society. Look, didn't all the people of that family send Kotoff away with joy? They saved their lives by being blinded. The most mysterious thing in the film is the erratic fireball. Some people say that it is just a means to set off the atmosphere and has no real meaning. I don't think so. Every time the fireball appears in Midia's thinking, it should be the symbol of Midia's burnt heart, a demon whose soul has faded into a vengeful demon, framed by others, but also by himself. The title of the film is probably From this.
Media is dead, and at the end of the film, it is said that after a few years, Kotoff was rehabilitated, and he was played by politics, so why not Mediah. Two people who created the era used the era they created to satisfy their own selfish desires, and were finally abandoned by the era they created. Of course, this profound intention will give people a shock like the burning sun.
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