Ivan's childhood

Kevin 2022-01-09 08:01:14

Twelve-year-old Ivan is a guerrilla boy scout. The war killed all his family members, the concentration camp slaughtered a group of his teenage friends, and he escaped by chance. But the war has irretrievably shattered his fate and destroyed his life. He has become a warrior who is not afraid of life and death and cannot survive. Ivan has only anger and hatred in his heart. He has no ability to live a peaceful life and love. He only wants and can only be sent to the battlefield. He fell to the enemy's gallows on the eve of victory, and got his wish... War makes heroes and destroys. hero. In the same way, sports struggle creates heroes and destroys heroes. If you start from the perspective of war-making heroes, the movie will be filmed as "Little Hero Ivan"; but the more important fact is that war destroys people and also destroys heroes, so this movie is called "Ivan's Childhood." "When people win a war, that is when they fail." I watched Tarkovsky's last film "Sacrifice" and then watched his first feature-length film Ivan's Childhood. After watching the sacrifice, I was extremely disappointed in Lao Ta. In his final work, he clearly blamed the side effects of modernity such as war, violence, pleasure, and materialism on technological progress and material society, and advocated a complete return to religion and naturalism. , Mysticism, spiritualism, extreme rightist conservative thinking. I sneered. Until I saw Ivan and his thoughts about facing the war, I could understand some of his spiritual journey. In my heart, I silently forgave Tarkovsky who turned right, and forgave my own ignorance... …

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Ivan's Childhood quotes

  • Ivan's Mother: If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.

  • Ivan: Is he a Fritz too?

    Galtsev: He's either a German doctor or writer.

    Ivan: They have no writers. I saw them burning books in a square. They poured gasoline on them and set them on fire. There was soot in the air for a week.

    Galtsev: That writer lived 400 years ago.

    Ivan: Well, then maybe.