. After reading it again, I think Andre's story contains at least these aspects
1. Friendship, for a little thing, turned against his best friend, even to the point of a duel
2. Career, for a little setback, give up school ( career), but also because of a little encouragement to dispel the idea, it's like child's play.
3. Love, people who love them deeply and people who love themselves deeply, because of some small misunderstandings, they will miss them all their lives 4. Family love, the mother is only an economic supporter, but who has not been impulsive
to suffer when he makes a mistake ?
Many people must have experienced these things, and Andre is just a little more dramatic and more extreme. He doesn't know how to control his feelings at all. On the sleigh back to camp, when reading letters, on the stage, in the ward, or in the room at home, the consequences of expressing love are completely different. More, it can only show that your immaturity will only bring a burden to others. I don't like Andre, but Jenny. Her love is more real and practical. Andre's love is too strong and has no tenacity. It will only be broken by reality. There is love and it will always be two parts that are disconnected. combine. Like Jenny, to go to Siberia and marry someone for love, that kind of toughness, that kind of humiliation, that kind of dedication, he couldn't do it. So the only one who can persist to the end can only be Jenny, and the ending is doomed.
The last part of watching the carriage passing by is a summary or reflection of Andre on the past years. The melancholy and a little old should resonate very much. I also like it very much.
At first I thought Andre was the hairdresser, because his situation overlapped with Figaro, but later I found out that he was repaired. The hairdresser in the film should be a symbol of character and culture. The shaving of the head implies the change of Andre. The American man-made logging machine called the barber is cutting down the tradition of Russia, but these two shaving methods are completely different. The former is rational growth and the latter is Blind deforestation is represented by two different Americans, Jenny and the inventor. Mikhalkov said, "This film doesn't focus on the 'how', the 'should be' is what I'm particularly concerned with." So I think he's talking about how we should change, accept Jenny or an inventor? His theme is not to show the characteristics of the Russian nation, but to criticize after the show, just like Andrei's own reflection on the past. Take the essence and get rid of the dross - all the inappropriate personalities and traditions should be discarded, of course, the things that should be preserved should be preserved, such as the shaving of the head is only to remove the part, and the son of the American soldier with the Russian personality.
The Russians have experienced two completely different systems, so they will not be like us, and they will not be silly when they hear about freedom and democracy. A lot of Russians think that Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union are great countries, while Lenin and Yeltsin are the sinners who disintegrated this great country. These people believe that too much democracy can damage freedom and even lead to despotism. It is not without reason that one year after democracy in February, it massacred workers, closed the unions, and was more dictatorial than before, like Hitler was also democratically elected. Of course, this is also a one-sided rhetoric, and the Westernization camp has another rhetoric. In addition to Lenin, Yeltsin, Stalin and Khrushchev are also controversial, and even Putin has been criticized for causing "democratic regression". The chaotic situation in Russian politics is actually a struggle between the Slavs' Russian road and Lenin's Westernization road. This confusion can be seen in the attitudes towards the October and February revolutions. In the Soviet era, of course, the October Socialist Revolution was praised, while in the post-Soviet period, the October Revolution was rejected and February democracy was praised, and there were leftists who affirmed both February and October, and conservative lords who rejected both. Knocked down by someone else today, and knocked down by someone else tomorrow, the Russians are confused and don't know how to go.
In fact, Mao Zhuxi is very similar to Stalin, but Deng Xiaoping is more visionary than Khrushchev. This is what I admire very much. Deng was treated badly by Mao, but he still tried to protect Mao Zhuxi’s image later, deifying and deifying Don't let Mao fall. If Mao fell like Stalin, the fate of the Chinese shovel party and the Soviet shovel party would not be much different.
In addition to politics and culture, although the Soviet Union was once the largest materialist country, there were very few atheists, much less than in the West. Religion is an inseparable part of Russians, and the tortuous development of Russian Orthodoxy is also controversial. Andrei's image of a stumbled and maturing Russia is certainly good, so it's no surprise that a film like this that tells people how to go is getting its premiere in the Kremlin.
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