Fall of the Bolsheviks

Vicenta 2022-02-02 08:16:20

I've watched it in succession these days: The Red Molecule, The Burning Sun, and The Katyn Forest. ** The Red Molecules (1986/Warren Beatty) around
the 1920s is a biographical film by the famous American journalist John Reed (who personally experienced "Ten Days That Shaked the World", which reflected the Russian October Revolution).
Critics tend to position the film as a romance, which in my opinion is an idealist's disillusionment - socialist John Reed pursues ideals at the cost of his life, and as he increasingly discovers the ruthlessness of Bolsheviks to stifle dissent , he was tired, he came to the end of his 32-year-old life.
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"The Burning Sun" (1994 / Nikita Mikhalkov) in the 1930s was adapted from real events, reflecting the Soviet Union on the eve of Stalin's party in 1936. The fighting hero Kotov was created by himself. The Red Authority strangled, and Kotov was convinced that he and his comrades had built a better country. **The Polish Katyn Forest (2007 / Andrzej Wajda) in
the 1940s and under the Soviet Union directly describes the Polish Katyn massacre and the story in which this truth has been repeatedly exploited, altered and defended.
At this time, the state apparatus under Stalin is no different from the Nazis, and the film clearly tells us with its opening chapter that can be recorded in film history.
After watching these three films, what more do I need to say?
Superfluous, I feel that films like this lead our view of history, that the facts that happened and did not depend on the attitude of someone and ourselves, the facts are somewhere, and they determine where we come from and where we go.

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Extended Reading
  • Ollie 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Biographical films with more characters than history, and too many grievances and entanglements, this is the root cause of the inability of Americans to become red.

  • Zelda 2022-03-24 09:03:49

    One of the best American movies of the 80s

Reds quotes

  • Pete Van Wherry: Bolsheviks, Sandy! The Bolsheviks! Jesus Christ, if the Bolsheviks get in, Sandy, you can just bend right over and kiss your ass goodbye.

  • Pete Van Wherry: You want to walk down the Champs-Elysées someday and see 500,000 Krauts come barreling out of Fouquet's? You better hope that the Bolsheviks are small potatoes. Now, let's have another drink. Waiter!