Fiery fragments circle far and near:
Ablaze, you don't know if you are to be free,
Or if all that is yours will disappear.
Will only ashes and confusion remain,
Leading into the abyss ? - or by Will there BE
an in Ash at the Depths of a Star-like at the Diamond,
! Eternal Victory at the Dawning of
the --from Cyprian Norwid, "Prolog,"
Tragedia fantastyczna
(a motto or to Andrzejewski's Novel)
Wajda's "ashes and "Diamond" was filmed in 1958, and China is beginning to make a big leap forward. Seeing such a film with such a strong image and performance style, poetic pain, unexpectedly came from a country that belongs to the socialist camp, it unavoidably shocked and puzzled me.
Why is the painful reflection on the post-war power struggle and identity crisis as cruel as war in Poland and many other national films in Chinese films? Is this due to nationality or the system? Or is it both? Although Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli filmed "A River of Spring Water Flowing East" in 1947 to reflect on personal choices in the great age and the influence of war on personal destiny, they were limited by the joys and sorrows of the melodrama, and failed to rise to the level of humanity and history. Metaphysical questioning. There have been so many films on the Nanjing Massacre, but one by one is disappointing. . .
The history of our nation has no shortage of fires that make ashes, but in the depths of the historical ashes, are there any diamonds that shone like stars?
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