Cinema Index
If you want to list the top ten most beautiful films of the year, it should be no problem for "Cracked Love" to win a seat among them. Kantemir BALAGOV, a disciple of Tarkovsky's spiritual successor Sugunov This work has fully demonstrated the ubiquitous ruins after Leningrad was invaded by the German army in World War II, not only the material damage, but also the spiritual damage, which has even been inscribed in the soul of the Russians. The dead are gone, but the living also linger on the edge of the abyss.
This is a sad story that happened in a sad autumn, in a sad city, a tall and thin blond white girl Yiya was in a small room, having fun with her child Paska, She pressed him to the ground, imitating a wolf and sniffing at him, the child's rosy cheeks were full of joy, until the redness gradually deepened, and the child said inarticulately, "Mom, no, mom, no."
Yiya's tall body did not move, her body was frozen and motionless like her eyes.
As time passed, the child also struggled with desperately waving his hands, trying to push the woman away, and slowly slowed down.
She suffocated her own child because of her epilepsy.
He was playing with Tall not long ago, pulling her back like a mountain, learning from the soldiers in the military hospital where Yiya worked to teach him animal sounds, everyone loves her and this child, the officer will die She was secretly stuffed with food from the military, and her colleagues did not exclude her because of her epilepsy, nor did she criticize her because she did not have a husband. In war, everything is not easy, especially in the military hospital where people die every day, a living and lovely Who doesn't like a little boy?
And now he didn't move.
Later we learned that the child was not actually hers, but her friend on the front line. However, we personally heard the child cry out to Yiya before his death: "Mom." Compared with the biological mother whom Pashka had never met, the mother that Pashka identified in his short life was actually Yiya.
The child's biological mother, Yiya's good sister, Masha, just returned from the front line, dressed in uniform and proud, on this night, she was waiting with great joy to see Yiya again, she missed her sister, and at the same time she missed her. Child, when Yiya locked herself in the military hospital room, it was Masha who went in to find Yiya, who was curled up in the dark. She called her "cute silly girl", "silent good girl", and she hugged. She, her own good sister, is clumsy like a tree, but also reliable like a tree.
She lit a match, and the flame hit Yiya's marble-like face. She confided everything to Yiya, including her dereliction of duty, as well as the guilt of indulging in revenge and not wanting to come back with Yiya. Zhang's face was suddenly near and far, and the topic finally talked about her beloved baby, her precious son:
"Where's Pashka? Did you go for a walk with that neighbor again?"
"Let's go meet Pashkah quickly."
"Iya? Why didn't you speak, what happened to Pashkah, right?"
After repeated inquiries, Masha learns about Pashk's death. In the third-rate script, she will start to beat Yiya, then cry loudly, cry, and finally hug Yiya. This writing may show that Doom still haunts a certain ruthlessness of the people, but it's too banal to write that way, so we're seeing this approach.
Marsha asked Eya, "Shall we go dancing?"
However, the ballroom didn't open, and in the dead street, nothing opened, so Marsha turned around and pulled Yiya into the car of the two jerky boys. She knew what they wanted, and the car drove into the dark until the side of the park. Marcia asked Eya to go for a walk with another boy, while she stared at the dumb boy named Alexander, who humiliated him, teased him, and shoved him out of the front seat, soaking wet. Drag it to the back seat, she wants him not to move, she wants to do it by herself.
She lost a child tonight, so she's going to make another child, on her own, like on the front lines.
In this film, there is no joy in sex, whether it is Masha or Yiya, the body is only used to hurt, to feel pain, or as a tool to sacrifice for the one she loves, Masha relies on Yiya, for the child she wants, and Yiya also relies on Masha because she loves Yiya.
The car door was torn open, Yiya dragged the boy who was lying on Masha's body out, and another boy's hand was broken by her.
"Tough girl"
The boy whose hand was broken looked at Eva who was pulling Masha away and said so.
In such a broken world, men are filled with hospitals due to wars, and the women who remain have to sew up such a world one by one. Such a world can no longer breed new life, and old life has become broken due to war. deformed. A sniper who retreated was called a hero, but in his heart he was just a disabled man who could move his mouth. His wife came to see him, he didn't feel happy, he just asked Yiya's boss, the director of the hospital to terminate him. of pain, he and his wife make urgent demands of him.
"I can't get out of the hospital like this, the kids need a 'father'. I can't do anything for them right now, it's just a drag on them."
"Please, doctor, help my husband."
"You can free him yourself with a pillow."
The doctor said coldly, he asked them to leave his office, and his children died, and in this hospital where people die every day, what's the point of having one more person die?
The war is over, but the curse of the war on life has not ended, and all the injuries continue. Ignatia’s epilepsy that makes her move from time to time is precisely because of the sequelae caused by her injuries while serving as an anti-aircraft artilleryman on the front line, and Masha. Because of the damage to the uterus, the hospital director declared her pregnancy impossible. When she held a glimmer of expectation, she asked, "Will there be a miracle?" The hospital director immediately rejected her idea.
This is not because he is ruthless, but because he is gentle, and he knows that in this harsh environment, all hope without foundation will eventually lead to deeper despair. The word "miracle" in relation to God is denied, just like the absence of the father in this film, we have men, such as crippled soldiers, such as Alexander who came to the hospital with his mother (and he was actually a boy) , or another boy who dragged him to have fun that night, we also have older men, such as an old man who longed for Yiya's heart, he said, "My body is an old man, but my soul is a young man." Or not so old, Alexander's father, who doesn't say anything but reads his newspaper, or the hospital director who lives alone, who was asked by Marsha to have sex with Eya, for a new child, However, Yi Ya was not pregnant after all.
A father full of vitality and ability to guide is lacking in this film, just as the Orthodox Church is almost absent in this film, people can only try to pick up their own garbage from the garbage heap in a broken world, " "Future" has become an extremely extravagant concept, because "present" is constantly being pulled by the "past" hidden in the shadows.
However, even in such a deficient world, the beauty of this film has never been lacking, whether it is the color matching of the characters' clothes or the layered and half-bared wallpaper, or the people in black clothes walking in and out of the ice and snow, and the warm The orange light that works on the face by the fire of the fire, or the sound processing that almost completely rejects the artificial soundtrack and only presents natural sounds, radio, speech, tinnitus (only one can hear), the crackling of the stove The sound, the sound of the collision between things, the collision of things and the body, the collision of the body and the body... The spirit and the soul are vividly displayed in the material, for example, when Yiya received the order of the hospital director (he finally decided to help the paralyzed The sniper did a favor) and went to the late-night ward with the poison. After several confirmations, she took the shot and injected the poison. Yiya lit a cigarette, her face close to the sniper's relieved face, and she spit the smoke into him. In his mouth, again and again, until the sniper slowly fell asleep, life and death showed a wonderful flow through the smoke, and Yiya also discovered that Masha, who was lying in another bed due to anemia, witnessed all this.
In another scene, the wet paint on the wall, as Marsha swirls from joy to grief and madness, is stained with a green dress she borrowed from the tailor, and attempts to stop her Yiya, who was scrambling together, was also stained with green paint because of her.
Those scratches, those touches, were all carried out with greater force than usual, as if they were afraid that the other party was afraid that they would be taken away by something at any time and dissipated.
If the materiality of the film still has meaning when the digitalization of the film becomes more and more proliferating (digital images of backgrounds, characters, etc., which are calculated by computers), then it is the mutual infusion of such dense materials, which digital has not yet been able to do. Meticulous, because of such meticulousness, the big screen has the meaning of existence. This is not just an insignificant detail, but a detail that is closely related to the story. This is about life under the frost and snow, and how to find the torrent of sadness in that life. Details of the way out, people held a ball to celebrate the end of the war, and yet it was known that the war
The damage is not just slashing from the outside, but shaving from the inside.
"I am empty"
At the end of the film, Yi Ya touches her belly and says to Masha while crying, while Masha touches her face hard.
This is a sad story. The sky does not collapse, but dissipates. The earth and the people on the earth have to hold each other more closely and rely on each other's heavy lives, so that they will not be sucked into space and dissipated. And go.
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