The film "Burning Sun" is full of beautiful natural scenery in Russia, trivial peaceful and happy family life, and innocent and romantic thoughts and actions of little girls. Except for some slogans and the reversal of the final plot, I would never have thought that this story happened in the Soviet Union. Great purge period. Even when the male protagonist Kotov finally got into the car that never returned, the family who didn't know the details were full of joy and singing songs to send them off. However, the more happy and beautiful life is like this, the more distressed and sighed the final brokenness is.
Ignore the political implications of this film. I have been thinking, the second male, Midia, is really what he thinks is that he was forced to be a spy with no other choice, betrayed eight white generals, took Kotov with the purpose of revenge, and finally broke the Are the Kotovs living happily and safely?
Let's talk about the male protagonist Kotov first.
The male protagonist Kotov is a brave and upright, generous, humorous and enthusiastic, respected colonel who loves the country and the party. When Kotov was in the sauna in the cabin, his cute daughter rode on his father's back and played, he gently called his wife's name Marusa, touched his beard and made a face, Marusa stood by the window and turned back to Kotov With a smile, the fine sunlight outside the window sprinkled on the golden hair, and the white teeth glowed with golden light. At that moment, I wished time stood still. At the request of the villagers, Kotov rode a horse into the field in a jacket, and he was witty, brave and handsome to stop the tank from entering the field and destroying the wheat. At the end, he showed a charming smile and joked with the soldiers, and his personal charm was straight. In the boat rowing leisurely through the sun-drenched green bushes on both sides, on the quiet river that is not wide, the conversation and hug with his daughter have established an image of a generous and great father who loves his daughter. On the boat, try to tell her political ideals in words that her daughter can understand. He said that the Soviet regime was established so that his daughter's generation could wear beautiful high-heeled shoes, always have a pair of beautiful and tender feet, be able to ride on planes, cars, subways, and all roads are smooth.
Midia is the childhood sweetheart of the heroine Ma Lusha, her father's adopted son and the best student, with musical talent, can play various musical instruments and tap dance. He was a fallen nobleman who fought in the White Army against Red Army communism. Left quietly ten years ago. Midya told Kotov's daughter in the way of a fairy tale, and it was also the truth that Kotov's family left that year. It was Kotov, who was his superior at the time, who used his power to make him choose between going to jail and doing espionage work for the CPSU to wash away the humiliation of fighting for the White Army. He chose the latter.
Marusa couldn't take it anymore and wanted to jump off the building. But it has been ten years, how can the real and solid love and trust established by Kotov and Marusa in the past ten years be easily defeated.
Their love is touching. It is the mutual understanding and trust between them that makes them reconciled. Not all couples have such trust.
Marusa: He had no choice.
Kotoff: We can all choose, Marusa. We can speak or be silent, we can leave or stay, we always have a choice.
Marusa: If it happened to you, what would you do if they sent you there, would you leave us?
Kotov: Of course, I am a fighter. Marusa, my dear, I will leave because, because I love my country. However he left because he was afraid and he wanted to live. Know what's the difference? One is duty, one is fear, my dear.
To start with, I think this is Kotov's excuse for his actions. Because if it was me, I would also choose to live to be a spy, and I felt really helpless. Why am I so unfortunate.
However, on second thought it was wrong. If I don't like eggs, my aunt asked me when I was buying noodles if I wanted to add one egg or two. Although I don't want one, the answer is probably, one, auntie. Actually, I can choose to say, Auntie, I don't want any of them. Auntie at most give me a look.
Kotov could choose to be a spy, but he chose to be a counter-spy and betrayed eight of his comrades of the same class. And he also participated in the Great Purge movement. He could have another positive attitude towards life, but he chose revenge and revenge for life. He lost himself in turbulent times.
Kotov did use dark means to capture Marusa. However, this does not affect Kotov is still a hero, because of this, his hero image is more reasonable and humanized. He is not a completely perfect hero, and he also makes mistakes sometimes. In life, some things are right and some things are wrong. The most important thing is how to deal with it.
As they were picking up the ball in the woods between the two of them, Midya said, You know I was forced. I have only one request, go back to this house, they promised me, and I believe it. They lied to me, they took my everything, everything! My life, my career, my lover Marusa, my motherland, my faith!
Kotov looked straight at him and asked: Is that why you came back? Seek joy in pain, reminisce pain again and again, bite after bite, and never know the end. You act like the meanest whore ever.
People will always encounter dog shit, you can swallow it, spit it out, and never chew it.
I understand Midya's choice because he was young and lost everything. However, this does not mean that I do not sincerely despise his subsequent actions.
The brand-new black car was blocked by the innocent postman asking for directions, and stopped beside the golden wheat field. When Midia got out of the car and saw the huge portrait of Stalin rising in the sky, he saluted solemnly and slowly, With a wretched and cunning smile, it has already shown that his humanity has long been distorted. Especially when he suddenly turned around in a white suit, walked towards the postman like a devil, and killed him without hesitation, it made me even more disgusted.
Before leaving the house, he stared at the intimate photo with Stalin for a long time, his eyes were full of confusion and sadness. In the car, he casually said that he knew the phone number of Stalin's special line. He had always been reluctant to believe that he would be betrayed by the same class, and he still had hope in Stalin. Kotov was beaten to death in the car, and he squinted, not at the Midia next to him, but at the portrait of Stalin outside the window, the brothers who once fought side by side, Kotov issued like a child Weeping whimper. A hero who has gone through so many bullets, crying uncontrollably. He is by no means weeping for the loss of his status and power. He weeps for the collapse of the beliefs and beliefs that he had fought for many years and for which he had been firm all his life. He weeps for the loss of the original purpose of establishing the Soviet regime.
One is that the gainer of class interests is betrayed by the same class, and the other is that because of the misfortune in life, he chooses revenge and betrays his own class to get a life.
No one wins, all are victims of politics. Stalin watched silently at the end.
After Kotov learned that he was being investigated and traveled to Moscow, he knew that he was dead and had only the last two hours with his family. He chose to play football happily, say goodbye happily, and bear the pain alone. Even if he died, he had no regrets, because he had a beautiful life.
Midya finally committed suicide with the bathtub in her own home. He regards hatred and suffering as the whole meaning of life. Kotov was shot, his beloved woman and Nadya, who regarded him as a good uncle, were sent to prison, and he succeeded in revenge. His life was thus emptied, leaving nothing but emptiness. Therefore, he chose to commit suicide. He is pitiful, he has not lived for himself, and has lived in hatred and resentment all his life. He'll always remember his adoptive father finally saying to him, it's so disappointing, I should have had an interesting and wonderful life, but God, what did I see before I died, a train full of geese, so stupid. He thinks it was others who ruined his beautiful and interesting life, and he never got up in this shit hole all his life. He was destroyed by his own hands, and he caused secondary damage to himself with pain. Nietzsche said, don't stare into the abyss, the abyss will look back at you.
To choose means to give up. It takes courage to choose, and you need to have the courage to pay for the consequences of your choice. Midya didn't have the courage to give up, nor the courage to take on it.
If you are raped by life, then close your eyes and enjoy it quietly.
If you can't see the darkness in life, you're a blind optimist, and if you see only darkness, you're fucking blind. Midya is blind.
Even choosing a positive attitude in the face of bad outcomes is a choice.
The scorching sun burns everyone who bathes in the sun. Hope the burnt person still believes that there is a warm light in this world, even if it is just a little flame.
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