Female sniper: It's time to be sensational and not sensational

Greyson 2022-04-19 09:02:44

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Lyudmila, there is indeed a person in history. This is like "Hacksaw Ridge", if you don't say that the male protagonist is a real person, no one will believe it. Often because of real events, the difficulty of making movies is even higher. The difficulty is how to dramatize real events.

Lyudmila's girlhood was not perfect, at the age of 16 [that is, 1932], she married and had a son, and her husband was a doctor. There was no "arrangement" for them to get married]. Lyudmila's marriage soon broke down for unknown reasons; when the divorce occurred, there are no details for the time being. According to her admission to Kyiv University in 1937 [21 years old] to study history, it can be roughly speculated that it was around 1935.

After the divorce, Lyudmila moved back to her family. This became a "stain" in the director's eyes, so the cursive was changed to her and her second lover, another sniper, Captain Leonid, who had a posthumous child. In the film, Mrs. Roosevelt visited the Soviet Union and invited their mother and son to watch the opera.

What's not to say about this?

Or, if you don't mention that she has a mother's life experience, it's over. There's no need to lie. Lyudmila died of a heart attack at the age of 58 due to post-traumatic stress syndrome, commonly known as PTSD. The film also did not mention it, for fear of affecting her glorious image. On the contrary, this can better reflect the huge price she paid to protect her family and the country as a girl, and it can touch the hearts of ordinary people even more.

This group of directors in Russia wanted to imitate Hollywood sensationalism, but in the most sensational plots, they went back to the old Soviet movie routine. But if you have watched "Hacksaw Ridge", will you be disgusted by the male protagonist who enlists in the army but refuses to touch the gun? On the contrary, the male protagonist saves the wounded on the ground with his bare hands, and his image is even taller. And the reason why he doesn't touch the gun is because Naifu suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, which has won more sympathy and appreciation. Sensation is a very difficult technical task.

Lyudmila has been a "man woman" since she was a child, with a stubborn and stubborn personality. Taizu's poem "I don't like red clothes and love armed forces" describes her very well. She also looks very boyish, her hair is cut, and she wears a steel helmet [in the film, she was never allowed to wear it, which surprised me. According to the rules, both officers and soldiers on the battlefield must always wear steel helmets], it is really difficult to distinguish males and females.

Lyudmila, born in 1916 in Belacherskov, Kyiv Province, Imperial Russia [BELA TSERSKOV, meaning "white church" in Russian, the prefix "white" in Belarus is BELO-], her family is Russian, her surname is " Belov"; the husband's surname "Pavlichenko" is an authentic Ukrainian surname, and there are variants of this surname: "Pavlyuchenko", a Russian international who once played for Tottenham in the Premier League, is this surname.

Lyudmila's parents were ordinary people - her father was a locksmith in St. Petersburg, not an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (later KGB); , to emphasize that Lyudmila's cold and hot character comes from heredity; her mother is indeed a teacher, but not an English teacher.

Lyudmila studied at the No. 3 Middle School in Kyiv. After graduating from junior high school, she worked part-time and worked part-time. While working on a grinder in an arsenal, she continued her high school courses. In 1937, Lyudmila was admitted to the History Department of the University of Kyiv. The film changed this experience into her unique talent, she was not allowed to be a man, and she was flawless as soon as she got started. This is bullshit. Anyone who has ever shot a real gun knows that even boys are nervous and flustered when they shoot for the first time. There was a joke: During military training, some boys did not know that the gun had recoil, and as a result, the shoulder was injured by the butt of the gun. Lyudmila actually understood the key to shooting just by listening to the old man whispering a few words.

Lyudmila's senior year, when the Great Patriotic War broke out, she immediately responded to the call to join the army and asked to go to the front line, but was persuaded to become a nurse [girl]. After learning that she had completed the shooting training of the Red Army and had excellent shooting skills, she agreed to her request and was incorporated into the 25th Infantry Division as a sniper. She was one of the 2,000 female snipers in the Red Army at that time. Such a good material, the director did not use it well. The Soviet Red Army has so many women's soldiers in different positions - pilots, tankers and artillerymen. Why not let everyone's eyes open and understand: It's not just Lyudmila a girl who is patriotic? 【To be continued】

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Battle for Sevastopol quotes

  • Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Gentlemen, I am 25 years old and I have killed 309 fascist invaders by now. Don't you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?