The three-hour film length is indeed the limit for watching movies at this age, and the more serious and rigid screenwriting and narrative methods are also dull, but the old-fashioned and solemn epic technique, the exquisitely crafted scene costumes, and the infinitely embarrassing one country and one family The direction of fate and the extremely complex emotional orientation brought about are also plus points.
The first act of the film sets the tone for the human side of the last tsar from a Western perspective with the birth of the crown prince born with hemophilia, depicting the stubborn and stubborn ruler of the 18th century in the early 20th century. The image of a generation of faint-hearted monarchs who are strong in the country, strong in the outside world, and who have caused the people to fall into serious disasters "without realizing it", still embarrassed and "naive" when signing the abdication documents. The emotional ups and downs of his family and the "simplicity" of returning to the basics in contrast to the sinister situation are also the focus of the whole film's desolate atmosphere.
At the moment when Germany and Russia declared war on the outbreak of World War I, a heart-wrenching line from the prime minister was really a prophecy that the country would go from one pain to another and even sin: "When the war is over, none of you will stay here. We All that is won will be lost, all that we love will be broken, and both victory and defeat will be cursed. The world will grow old, people will become walking dead and lost in ruins to madness. Tradition, virtue, self-control, will pass away, I do not Sorrow for myself, but I grieve for those who come after, who live but have no hope, all they have is sin, vengeance, and fear. The world will be full of fanatics and unimportant fools."
And Kerensky, the most "rational" representative in the whole film, sighed deeply when he said to the abdicating tsar that he would not let his hands get blood on his hands: "You have power, There is no law. And I have the law, but no power."
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