"Poisoned by the sun, running in the red ocean, I heard you say that my love will never have love again."
-"Poisonous Sun" is
heavy, shocking, and profound. Finally saw Mikhalkov’s "Poisonous Sun", an immortal masterpiece of contemporary Russian cinema.
Mikhalkov, contemporary Russia's most influential film master. In 1995, the Cannes Film Festival awarded the Jury Prize to Zhang Yimou's "Alive" and Russia's "Poisonous Sun" by Mikhalkov. In the following year, this "Poisonous Sun" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This is the first time I have seen a movie from Russia showing Stalin's purge.
At the beginning of the movie, a group of guards were marching on the dark Moscow streets. Midya took out a revolver and left bullets at his temples. He pulled the trigger. He was not dead. The gambling was completed. He It seems that a choice has also been made.
After this gloomy opening, the film entered a very sunny and warm Soviet country scene. Colonel Kotov was called out from the bathroom, stepped on his horse and organized a drill for a group of Soviet tanks to crush the dealer. We can see that this is a legendary hero.
The cute little daughter of Colonel Kotov in the movie represents a pure perspective. In this idyllic situation, the shadow of ideology shines, the Stalin hot air balloon is being built, and the defense drill is a form of anti-virus.
In this peaceful atmosphere, Midya suddenly returned. The story here seems to be a love triangle, a complicated emotional entanglement between Midya, Kotov and his wife Marusa. In the story that Midya told the little girl, the relationship between the past and the complicated began to gradually become clear. The narrative selected by director Mikhalkov in the background of the Great Purge is presented through a family, small people in the big era. Even if Kotov is a hero with outstanding military exploits, he is still insignificant in this era. The film does not portray his former heroic feats positively, but from time to time he hints at his hero and the final character of the film through details such as medals and photos. The ending is in contrast.
The role of Midya is a guy whose soul has been distorted by ideology. He is also a victim in this era, but he has acted as an accomplice of the devil. He was originally a pianist, but he served as a secret police, constantly betraying those around him, but at this time, it was the husband of his former lover who had to execute the order to arrest him. The bitten soul eventually went to self-destruction.
At the end of the movie, Kotov said goodbye to his family, smiling as he maintained a true lie. The secret police car was so curious in the eyes of the little girl, but she didn’t know that the car would drive her father to death. The abyss.
Ball lightning is a metaphor for the poisonous sun and is full of destructiveness. It appears twice in the movie. This intention of death and destruction is a metaphor for the film's name. The poisonous sun comes from the song that is always sung in little girls movies. Many great dictators in the world like to compare themselves to the sun, and what this sun brings is not the warmth of the common people, but the scariest and scariest horror. The killing. The Great Purge can be regarded as one of the two greatest political tragedies of the 20th century. When reading this part of history, I have seen a lot of information about the arrests of the Soviet People’s Internal Affairs Commission. How much truth has been concealed. Colonel Kotov in this film also has a real life prototype.
In the movie, the driver who always went the wrong way accidentally blocked the vehicle that escorted Kotov. He was executed casually. Midya saw the portrait of Stalin rising from the hot air balloon, and he couldn't help it. Salute, that is the only shock to the gods or demons. This is the most shocking scene in the film. The head of the tyrant against the red background rises in the golden field like a poisonous sun. Heroes like Kotov, who was beaten up in the car, also shed tears in sorrow, and were killed unjustly.
Finally, I would like to introduce Mikhalkov, who is the most reputable director in contemporary Russia. He was born in a prominent artistic family in the Soviet Union on October 21, 1945. His great-grandfather Surikov was a famous Russian painter in the 19th century. His mother Natalia Petrovna Goncharovskaya was a writer and poet. He His father, Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov, is a famous children’s literature writer, the songwriter of Soviet and Russian songs, an academician of the former Soviet Academy of Educational Sciences, and a Russian meritorious artist.
Mikhalkov entered the Soviet Film Academy at the age of 14, listened to the talks of the world-renowned masters such as Tarkovsky, and also determined to enter the film industry. He first acted as an actor and loved Chekhov’s works, starring in a series of films such as "Uncle Vanya", and later as a sailor on a nuclear submarine. The experience of his military career can be seen in his "Poisonous Sun" performance. come out. This is a "film actor director" who often plays important roles in his own films. "Poisonous Sun" is his representative work as a world-class film master. Since then, he has also shot an equally famous film "The Barber of Siberia".
There is also a sequel to the movie "Poisoned Sun". The story shows the fate of the Soviet officers who were persecuted by Stalin after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War. I haven't found this "Poison Sun 2" yet, I recommend the first work first.
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