Just when you thought it was a love-hate love story, you suddenly found out that Midia was the secret police who came to arrest Kotov. The arrest was of course for treason and betrayal of Stalin. Kotov knew that this was unwarranted, and he thought that Comrade Stalin knew that he would be cleared in the future. In order to avoid frightening his family, Kotov calmly acted with Midia, happily enjoying the last time before parting with his family.
You can't help loving the character of Kotov. He was so brave and determined; he loved his wife and daughter so much; he also used his influence to stop the tank exercise for the crops of the villagers. In short, it meets the standards of all good men, good husbands and good fathers. On the contrary, Midia is a villain who seeks personal vengeance. Indeed, Midya is here to avenge her personal revenge. Because it was Kotov who forced him to join the Cheka and enter the White Army in Paris, and he lost Marusa and everything before. However, Kotov did not recruit Midia because of his own selfishness. Kotov always believed that he represented the Soviet Red Army in the fight against the White Army on the anti-espionage front. Yes, Colonel Kotov has always been a man of integrity and believed in the just cause he was doing.
In fact, look at the people around him who are not like that? The young pioneers here are training with high morale, and the government over there organizes the people to seriously conduct anti-virus and anti-chemical drills. Even Kotov's beautiful and lovely little daughter Nadia is envious of the young pioneers who look at them all day long, wishing they could grow up soon. They are all bathed in the brilliant sunshine of the motherland, and they never thought that the dazzling sunshine would burn people.
The teardrop of the whole film comes when Kotov gets into the car that arrests him. The naive and lovely Nadia loves big cars so much that she insists on taking them for fun. After being allowed, she sat gleefully on the driver's lap, holding the steering wheel, "driving" her dear dad, who would never be seen again, on the road to death. At this time, a hot air balloon with Stalin's head hung up in the field. As the hot air balloon rose, the head slowly unfolded and swayed in the wind, showing all kinds of weird smiles...
This is a true story that happened during the Great Purge of the Soviet Union. It is known from the subtitles at the end of the film that Kotov was executed shortly after his arrest, and his wife Marusa was arrested and died in prison shortly after. Only Nadia, who was in jail with her mother, survived and saw her parents rehabilitated.
And Midea, who avenged private revenge, did not get any joy of revenge. Suicide at home. Maybe it's because the ending wasn't what he imagined, maybe it's remorse and repentance. He took advantage of the sun's rays, but couldn't get rid of the sun's rays.
Is there really no hope? The film actually gave us the answer. That is the beginning, the peasant women in the village fearlessly blocked the rumbling tanks and bravely defended their crops. They are not moved and dedicated because this is their own country's tank. Because they know, destroying the crops, without food, the tank's brilliance has a ball. That's called common sense.
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