This movie is the kind of chronic movie that you will have a very dull feeling after watching it for the first time, faintly mixed with a little thin and melancholy.
In countless movies, about war, about illness, we can always see through the screen how different people are dealing with their own pain, they are used to telling you what people have gone through and how they are dealing with it. Trauma, this film doesn't make it explicit, it doesn't mention what happened, but uses a very subtle way to show you how people are left with pain marks and try to live in the aftermath.
These after-effects include killing the child with his own hands because of his own symptoms, although he loved the child very much, the ecstasy of putting on a dress turned into indescribable anger, and euthanasia. From the beginning to the end of the film there is not a single frame to describe the war, but from the beginning to the end you can deeply feel the post-war atmosphere. These feelings are not only due to the iconic wounded soldiers in the hospital, the distinctive clothing features and Martha's few descriptions of the war experience, but more from the obvious post-war marks on everyone's body - seemingly complete and actually mutilated. Contrary to the harsh reality is the film's extremely beautiful and comfortable shots, as beautiful and unreal as people's hearts hope.
The story described in the film is very simple, and the rhythm is very slow at the beginning. It describes the daily life of a retired female artilleryman named Iya working in the hospital, and how much she loves the little boy left by her friend Martha. As a result, in an accident, Iya killed the little boy with her own hands. The next day, Martha returned with gifts for Ia and her son. Masha's return added a lot of anger to the family. When she asked about her son, Iya's reaction made her guess that her child might have died. The little girl in the lead house seduced and ran away. She showed every gift until she took out the toy puppy that was exchanged for her son, and she finally dared to ask the question: "Where did Bazaar go?" Iya asked her Apologize. After she showed Iya the new sweater, she asked again, "Is he in pain?" Iya lied that the little boy died in his sleep. From then on, Martha thought that Iya owed her a life, and she used this to coerce Iya to give her another child. At the end of the movie, Iya tried to tell Martha twice that she couldn't get pregnant. Martha covered her mouth roughly and said in a very positive tone that they would have a child. They taught him to read and go to school, even though she knew very well. That future would not come, she still described it with great certainty, and after receiving Iya's affirmative response, the two hugged each other and cried.
The reality is actually very cruel, but if you don't admit this cruelty, it is not cruel. A paralyzed soldier in a hospital can flirt with a nurse, and you think he really thinks he's lucky to be alive even if he's paralyzed, but when his wife comes, the first thing he does is ask the doctor to euthanize himself, and get killed because of the war. Apologize to wife. All the content of the whole movie fits the poster of the movie very well, don't tell the desperate truth. You can feel the fragility of the impending collapse behind that calm, the trauma it brings to people after the war, and at the same time teach people how to live a life of self-deception, so that they don't indulge in wailing. In the face of great trauma, people may not be so brave, they are warriors, but there is only a white flag in their backpack, waiting for the moment when they can raise it.
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