What surprised me was that the director had to deal with many major and important topics on the contemporary cultural agenda in one film: women and the body, LGBT, euthanasia, and surrogacy. What's more surprising is that the director didn't mess up. Each topic has been fully and meticulously developed and presented, bringing the story to a reasonable conclusion.
The director wisely chose the background of the era after World War II. Only in the extreme human social situation of war, can military prostitutes, homosexuality, disability, and abnormal kinship have a space for simultaneous and reasonable existence and become a part of human social life that has to be addressed squarely. Once the rationality and reality foundation are established, all these content issues to be dealt with separately will be promoted separately under the larger theme of the destruction of life and the continuation of life caused by war, so that the story follows the development logic of the characters’ emotions. In this way, the director successfully completed various narrative and structural challenges.
What impressed me the most was the end of the film, when Martha went to see Sasha's parents. Sasha's mother looked at Martha coldly outside the door and knew her decision. At the dinner table, she treated Martha calmly, frankly, and courteously. She really sympathizes and respects Martha, but she also fully sees the unfortunate future of the couple. The parents always maintained a noble and elegant posture, and even Martha quickly found a suitable way to defend her self-esteem. Only his son Sasha couldn't control his behavior and slammed the door away. Obviously, there are too many things this young man can't control, even himself. Martha returned home alone, embracing Iya and weeping. She said that she would be with her forever, no outsiders would come, they would have a son, and this child would heal everything. This is the most reasonable ending. Without dog-blood and sensational class discrimination and confrontation, stop the romantic imagination of love and life in time. Without a savior and great transporter, there will never be. Martha’s future will be the same as her once, relying on her own humbleness and betrayal. , Rely on your own strength and smile to continue. In such an era, this is the most reasonable end of the story, and in the present era, it is still.
The art of the film is also very successful. I am thinking about the real post-war world. Maybe there are not so many warm and warm homes and fabrics, not so rich colors, but these unrealities make the movie look good. That is the color that the female world should have in the eyes of the director. It may be deprived of it in the war, but it should be like that.
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