After watching this film, I couldn't help but tell my colleagues about it, because its story is so catchy and meaningful. I've seen many films and you can't say anything to others, you just narrate it. Others are also bored. This is not the case with this film. My simple description deeply touched the hearts of the two quite sophisticated uncles.
Choose a perspective to cut into the war. Many excellent films directly show the wrestling and cruelty of war, but this film finds a soldier who has made meritorious service. He does not seek meritorious service, but only asks for a reward for returning home, repairing the roof for his mother, describing his journey home and showing the friendship in the war. The lower-ranking officers, soldiers, and family members who staunchly supported the war, including fathers, wives, mothers, and children. The seriousness of the war situation is only a background of the story. Using a strong storyline and gradually advancing it makes the work complete and compact and highly ornamental. Well, the narrative perspective is very important. If you find the right perspective, the story will be more than half successful.
The character relationship is set successfully. This film is only 87 minutes long, and there are no more than three main characters set up, one is the hero Alyosha, the other is the heroine Shula, and the supporting actress is Alyosha's mother, Catherine.
The relationship between Alyosha and his mother is a deep mother-son relationship. Alyosha was concerned about his mother during the war. First, he did not say goodbye to his mother (in the narrative with my colleagues, I set Alyosha as a student and joined the army since school); second, the rainy season It was almost here, and the mother's roof was leaking. As for the mother, at the beginning of the movie, she stood on the road outside the village and looked into the distance, thinking about her son all the time. ——This mother is the representative of countless mothers of soldiers during the Great Patriotic War.
Let's talk about the story of Alyosha and Shura. The relationship between a soldier and his mother is likened to the relationship between a soldier and his motherland. A soldier's war is to protect his mother; and the love between Alyosha and Shula is the best part of life. For this reason, life is worth cherishing. Soldiers defend their homeland, but also love and other good things in life. Alyosha and Shula met by sneaking a train, and as soon as they met, they fought and quarreled because of hostility and misunderstanding. And it has been tried and tested, but in this film, it is used reasonably and just right. Shula thought Alyosha was a bad guy, so she thought about jumping off the train and running away. Because the speed of the car was too fast, Alyosha tried to stop her because she was afraid that she would jump off and get hurt. Shula mistakenly thought that he had been molested, and even slapped Alyosha in the face. Following the conversation between the two and the conflict with the soldiers watching the train, they developed a good feeling between the two. In order to protect herself, Shula tricked Alyosha into saying that she was going to her fiancé's house. Alyosha missed the train because of fetching water, and chased him in the car of the sleepy aunt. Can he not say that he fell in love with the girl, he could take another train to go straight to his hometown. Just when she heard that the military train had driven away for an hour and a half and was extremely lost, Shula came down from the overpass, and she was still waiting for Alyosha. At this time, the two were already concubines, and the difficult environment made the two young hearts collide and sparked a spark of love. When Alyosha was crowding the train, because Shula refused to admit that it was his family, he was unable to board, so he took off his military uniform and asked Alyosha to put it on, and boarded the train as he wished. This shot brought the two closer to each other's hearts. To write a story is to play tricks and play cards against common sense. Shula admits that she has no fiancé. Just when the audience thought that the two were about to establish a love relationship, the director broke the relationship between the two and Alyosha got on the train. , shouting his address loudly, Shula chased after him, but could not hear Alyosha's words clearly. Shula stood on the platform looking wistfully at the passing train, which made the audience feel mixed emotions! There is a strong desire, director, to arrange for them to be together. But the director just shot here, leaving a big gap. In just a few short scenes, it can be written so heartily, sweetly and beautifully!
The supporting characters are vividly portrayed. In just 87 minutes, the performance of the protagonist was not enough, and the director's allocation to the supporting roles was even more limited. The first supporting role was the general. He was humorous, had a strong sense of responsibility, and understood and sympathized with his subordinates. Alyosha asked for a day off to go home. He said that during the war, you can't go home for a day. Alyosha was generously given six days off. The second supporting role is the soldier who entrusted Alyosha to send a message home. He is simple, lovely, and full of emotions. He just asked Alyosha to send a message to his wife. He is still alive, he has no arms or legs, and he loves her. The comrades urged the secretary to give him a piece of soap to bring to his wife. The wartime supplies were extremely scarce, and a piece of soap was also a good daily necessities. This is the third supporting role, the secretary, while he muttered that his ration was only one-eighth, and he generously donated two bars of soap in the entire row. He yelled, I bet her wife would be happy! The next fourth supporting role is the soldier who lost a leg in the war. He had a bad relationship with his wife and became disabled again, so he didn't want to go home! The figure of this person is quite full. The fifth supporting role is the telegraph server, who angrily accuses the recovery soldiers of not thinking that way. Alyosha helped the recovered soldier go home and got off the train, but he didn't see his wife to pick him up. Just when the soldier was disheartened, the seventh supporting role's wife came and gave him a warm hug. In the face of the invaders, the people were united as never before, and the wife not only did not despise him, but was proud of him. Next is the eighth supporting role, the train guard that Alyosha smuggled on. This is a wretched and selfish image. Not only does he have no sympathy, but he takes the opportunity to extort. His supposedly ferocious, beast-like captain (the eighth supporting character) arrives, but a good-hearted good man, denounces his extortion, demands that he return the can, and puts him in confinement. The ninth supporting role is the sleepy old woman, who is really admirable for her tenacity and persistence in her work. The tenth supporting role is the wife of the soldier who delivered a message. She lives a lavish life by selling her flesh. Her husband is fighting on the front line, but she betrays him. The eleventh supporting role was the father of the soldier who sent a message. He was sick in bed and received two soaps from Alyosha. He heard that his son was still alive and brave. He showed national righteousness. He asked Alyosha to bring him. The message said that he was healthy and hoped that his son would fight bravely, and that his wife was working and waiting for him to come back. In front of everyone's lies, people are embarrassed. The twelfth supporting role is a woman fleeing from Ukraine. The thirteenth supporting character is a truck driver, who at first refused to take Alyosha on board, saying he would be put in prison, then changed his mind at random and sent him to the village, when it was necessary to delay further After a while, he waved his hand and said, die! Funny and touching. The fourteenth supporting role is Alyosha's neighbor Zoya. Alyosha may not have seen her for several years. Zoya has grown into a slim and beautiful girl. Zoya is obviously also very fond of Alyosha. As for whether or not to form a love triangle with Shula, that is not important anymore. In short, among so many supporting roles, only two are negative characters, and the others are full of positive energy.
The only thing that is puzzling in the film is that Alyosha was bombed by enemy planes on a train, and the railway bridge was blown up. How could there be a train arriving in two hours and carrying them away.
I don't like the existence of the former Soviet Union, but their Great Patriotic War was a just war beyond reproach. The bravery, optimism, perseverance, and sacrificial spirit displayed by the former Soviet people are still deeply moved decades later. I.
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