"Song of the Soldiers" is an innovative work of the "New Wave Movies" of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has new breakthroughs in content and art form. "Song of Soldiers" reflects the cruelty of the war, reflecting that the war caused Alyosha's mother to lose her only son, and also took the life of a 19-year-old as young as Alyosha, and destroyed Alyosha and Shura The beautiful love just budding between. The film author condemned the war through this specific work. "Song of the Soldiers" is a tragedy. The hero's sacrifice is expressed in the dark field, but it is more shocking than the bright field. The film did not use false optimism to dilute the tragic atmosphere, which is a new attempt in Soviet films.
From the perspective of the film's structure, "Song of Soldiers" breaks through the frame and theatrical structure of narrative films. This is a prose-structured film, and the social life it involves is much broader than a narrative film. Some things in the film may not have anything to do with Alyosha’s direct experience, but the short few days through Alyosha’s vacation during the war reflects the cross-section of life in the front and rear of the Soviet Union. Faced with the test of war, various characters have different performances. Audiences who are accustomed to watching the plot may think that this film does not have many twists and turns, but it gives people much more feelings than some stories and events, and it enables the audience to think about war and war from a philosophical perspective. Human relations.
"Song of the Soldiers" through Alyosha's eyes, showed the scene of the war he saw during the vacation. According to the structure of the drama, the disabled soldier in the film need not be shown, because he has no direct relationship with Alyosha's life experience, he is just a person Alyosha met on the road. But the film shows him, it also shows the fate and fate of many soldiers after being disabled during the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War. The several characters that the film met through Alyosha Road show the entire Soviet society during the war in many aspects, and the capacity of the film is much larger. But the film is not scattered, and the concept is still very strict. In the opening scene, Alyosha's mother stands at the entrance of the village. She is not waiting for Alyosha to return. She knows that he will never come back again. She stood there just to express her feelings, so as to calm her heart.
In the scene where Alyosha was running chased by four enemy tanks, the audience suddenly saw the world on the screen turned upside down, with the tanks in the sky and the sky under their feet. This is a subjective shot of Alyosha, using a camera to show Alyosha's fear. At that time, Alyosha was afraid that the world he saw had been turned upside down. Using a camera to express the psychological state of a character was still a new technique in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.
This film emphasizes the relationship between Alyosha and his mother from a human point of view, which was not allowed in previous Soviet films. The director of "Song of Soldiers" did not want to present Alyosha as a simple combat tool, but wanted to portray him as a living person with the love and hatred of ordinary people, rich feelings, and flesh and blood.
The scene where Alyosha takes care of a disabled soldier on the road is very delicate. The destination of the disabled soldier was Polysov, and Alyosha would also change his car there. At the Polysov station, both disabled soldiers and Alyosha used cigarettes to conceal their anxiety. For the disabled soldier, whether his wife will come to determine his future fate, Alyosha felt that time was tight and worried that he would not be able to catch the car, but he was not at ease if he did not hand the disabled soldier to his wife. When Alyosha and the disabled soldier were about to turn around and leave the station, the disabled soldier's wife came. She yelled "Vasha" loudly and ran towards her husband, but after running a few steps, after seeing his image clearly, she paused before running to him again. This "pause" was a psychological activity, because the wife unexpectedly discovered that he had broken a leg. She was surprised that this was a real feeling. Then she ran to him and hugged him tightly, her mood Yes: I finally came back, even if I broke a leg, it’s good to be able to come back. Both the director and the actors pay attention to the inner activities of the protagonist. When the disabled soldier and his wife walked out of the platform, the film used the middle shot to show the back of the wife holding her husband's right arm. Suddenly, she tripped on the crutches, and the wife had to pull her hand out and separated from him. The expressiveness of this detail is very rich, and it shows that this cane is hindering their future lives, and they can't even walk as they did before the war. The capacity of this detail is very large, this is the true film language, and it adds luster to the film.
The hazy love that has just sprouted between Alyosha and Shula is as pure as clear spring water. Alyosha missed the train because he got off to fetch water, and later took a truck to the junction station to catch the train, but he missed it. He thought he would never see Shura again, but he didn't expect that Shura knew that he was going to change trains at the junction, so he got off the train and stood waiting for him on the railway overpass. She looked for him in the passersby intently, and did not even drank water, lest she would miss him. The simple conversation between the two young people was Alyosha: "Sura, you are so smart! I'm so stupid, I thought I would never see you again." But Shura said, "I'm so thirsty!" Alyosha: "Have you not had any water yet?" Shura: "I'm afraid I missed you!" Neither of them said a word about love, but they sounded calm and filled with ordinary words. emotion.
In the scene where Shura and Alyosha went to deliver soap to the wife of a soldier in Luyu, when Alyosha discovered that the wife had betrayed her husband on the front line, he felt that the unfaithful wife was not worthy of soap, and he again Going to get the soap back and send it to the soldier's father, not even leaving her the soap-wrapped paper, which fully demonstrated Alyosha's crystal pure heart. On the stairs of the house where the wife lives, the children are blowing soap bubbles. Shu stretches his hands to pick them up. The children don't let her destroy the beautiful soap bubbles. There are also two explanations for the detail of children blowing soap bubbles. One explanation is that the loyalty of the warrior's wife is shattered like a soap bubble; another explanation is that the hazy love between Alyosha and Shura is also illusory and unpredictable like a soap bubble.
When parting, Shula told Alyosha: She has no fiancé at all. She is going to the aunt's house. She has no relatives and no reason. She confessed her love to Alyosha in a unique way.
The structure of the film is very rigorous, it seems rather scattered, but in fact it has been carefully designed by the author. After watching this film, people have a lot of things to remember. "Song of the Soldiers" gave the audience a general understanding of the entire Patriotic War and some feelings about the cruelty of the war. After watching "Song of Soldiers", people will feel an unspeakable sense of melancholy, as if they have lost something, because Alyosha is very kind to the audience, his voice and smile are still in front of them, losing him is like losing An old friend brought sadness to the audience like that. Therefore, this film can move people's heartstrings and can stand the test of time. It has a strong artistic appeal and is a masterpiece that can be regarded as innovative from content to form. It had a great influence on the development of Soviet cinema in the future.
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