Thoughts from waiting

Madonna 2022-12-20 04:16:38

"Song of the Soldier" made me see the real picture that I didn't want to see, and I couldn't bear to face it, the mother's waiting, the wife's waiting, the aging father's waiting... All the people are waiting, waiting for the news—— The end of the war, however, the end of the war is always very slow, it takes time to accompany it, but also requires everyone to pay a lot or even all. After the war is over, people are still waiting, waiting for a result - an ideal result of their own conception, even a fruitless waiting, they regard waiting as a habit? As a sustenance?
For this film, aside from the background of the times, what can be left is love, and it is also the love that people should have. What do people live for? Live to live, live for others, live for faith, live for waiting, in the final analysis, it is love. My favorite opening line of the film: "She didn't wait for anyone, he was buried in a foreign land far from his homeland, in that unknown village where strangers laid flowers at his tombstone, they called him a Russian soldier, A hero, a liberator, and to a mother he is just a son..." For this dialogue, after reading it, I only felt a numb trembling in my body, and I felt that deliberately taking out this passage seemed unreal, even Hypocrisy, in any case, the content of this dialogue does exist, and it is also a real situation. Alyosha's mother is wearing that black turban and looks from afar on the road leading to the city. That look can be said to have no purpose. Habitual look. It's a hilarious fact that an elderly woman suffers what she doesn't want to bear and has to bear. Her experience was brought about by the war, but after the war, she was still powerless. This is the fact, the fact that she is powerless to resist. At this time, I think of "The Modern Life of Post-Aunt" and "The Life of the Disgusting Matsuko" ", although the themes of the three films are different, they all show the bumps, struggles and powerlessness of women's destiny. Women's suffering is helpless, so that they can bear infinitely and accept it numbly.
Why wait, there is still hope in my heart, no hope, that is, despair. Many people who commit suicide probably have no expectations for why they choose to give up their lives. The wife who betrayed the soldier, the difficulty is lonely, or the years are unforgiving, and she would rather find someone else. For this woman, she is not wrong, she has chosen her own way of life. For the soldier, it is a betrayal. Moral betrayal. Speaking of morality here, morality is relatively just behavior recognized by most people, and immorality is naturally a small part, and that small part is relatively unjust, because morality is always constrained by the concept of the times and violates morality. It's not that it's wrong, but that it's not accepted for the time being. Elizaveta snuggled against the door frame, hoping that the young lad could understand her troubles, but the age gap is always an insurmountable gulf. "You are too young to understand", such a sentence expresses the woman's heart.
Life is a process, and the lifestyle of each character in each age group is not the same. In the film, the young man with strong blood believes in love and will do irrational things for love - jumping off the train (although not, only Stop thinking), nearly middle-aged disabled soldiers struggle to get to the train home because of their broken legs, elderly people in their 60s accept that their daughters are widows, and those Ukrainian women with children They escaped war, they flew like birds, they never knew where they were going, they were afraid of war because they had children and families. I must sigh with emotion that the long road of life needs to be personally experienced, and it is necessary to experience joys and sorrows, so that life is perfect enough.

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  • Alyosha Skvortsov: Comrade General, instead of my decoration, could I go home to see my mother?