Alex walks through them and asks Ristad, a survivor of the war, where the Ukrainian town that has been missing from the map for years is. Living in an isolated patch of sunflowers, Ristad begins to show us little by little what Jonathan is looking for, a town devastated by the Nazi invasion, traces of a woman who saved his grandfather .
The Ristad's hut, crammed with boxes and memorabilia from the war years, resembles a museum like Jonathan's apartment. From the beginning of the film, I was very interested in Jonathan's collection. He said that because he was afraid of forgetting, he used bags after bags to store items with memories attached to them and hang them on the wall. A full wall hung. I've been looking for ways to record memories, I don't trust the brain, because if it's not remembered hard, it will fade and disappear over time, and words are always biased, maybe Jonathan's way is very good Worth learning. So dear soldier, can you give me a wall at home in the future?
The grandfather of Christian-Jewish American Jonathan (Ilya Wood) was one of the survivors of the Nazi ravages and even genocide more than half a century ago. Over the years, the old man has always regarded finding the savior of the year as the greatest wish of his life. But at the last moment before his death, he had no choice but to leave this wish to Jonathan. Jonathan went to Ukraine, an Eastern European country where his grandfather was rescued, holding an old photo that had turned yellow after the vicissitudes of life. . I like Elijah Wood better here than in The Lord of the Rings, with his dull kindness, conservativeness, insecurity of memory, and his big glasses that cover almost his entire face.
For Alex, Jonathan's hired translator and guide, I love his lovely French-inspired English, this humorous, street-smart, Ukrainian lad who's so obsessed with American culture. Of course, and his clothes, very good. His 69 remarks to Lala at the beginning are extremely interesting, and the major events that happened in 1969 really need to be commemorated. His conversation with Jonathan in the blue car shows his confusion and Jonathan's conservativeness.
Alex's grandfather, an old man who claimed to be blind and needed a guide dog because of his loneliness after retirement, was a hired driver for Jonathan's trip, a driver who needed a guide dog. hehe. Only when the truth of the film was revealed did he know that he was also a survivor of that catastrophe. After finally reuniting with Ristad, who had witnessed his escape from the disaster, he returned to the small hotel where they lived, and took his own life in the bathtub before dawn. I'm a little puzzled by the writer's arrangement. Just watching the moment Alex opened the bathroom door, the bright red full tank was so shocking. Instead, I think he should spend the rest of his years more peacefully.
As Jonathan left Ritasted's house, she asked if the war was over. This seems to be a question left for everyone.
In fact, what the whole film finally finds is a sad truth, but it unfolds little by little in a slightly happy atmosphere. But I don't know why, but it is very harmonious.
I can't forget those scenes, sleeping rough under a star-filled night sky, trekking from day to night to find the town by the river, the Ukrainian scenery along the way, the ruined Soviet government mansion. Lots of sunflowers.
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