A Soviet war film, as if this can roughly summarize the film. But no, there are no crying young soldiers, no ordinary people's feats, and the entire film camera has been following a Belarusian child who wants to join the partisans.
A sense of helpless desperation pervades the film, beginning with the gun on his body when he digs up dead bodies in the trenches to join the guerrillas. These despairs are not so obvious in the beginning, it is the thick sand, the distressed mother, the bruised and indifferent guerrilla. Gradually, all the short breaths were quickly broken by the disaster that fell from the sky, and we began to see artillery fire in the forest, villagers being shot and killed in groups, and groups of people taking refuge on isolated islands. All this despair seems to have no process, only the result, we only see the dying people with burns all over the body after the fire.
And in the second third of the film, we begin to experience a catastrophe first-hand. We were kicked out of our home, stood at gunpoint in the square, shoved into a small barn, and burned in fear. Once again, we can't see the crying people, although we can hear the deafening cries and screams. All we saw were countless burning houses, soldiers lifting women onto trucks and billowing smoke. All the cruelty is not concrete, but the people who watch it don't dare to breathe. This is probably the scary point of this film.
In just a few days, our protagonist grows old rapidly in the fire and dust, and at the end of the film Fliola angrily shoots at the portrait of Hitler in the mud, his face is wrinkled. As the title of the film says, the audience can only know if they come and see. I don't even think that this three-hour epic feature film doesn't want to say something strongly, the director just found a pair of purest eyes to show us these cruelties. And then we follow the eyes to feel the loss and the pain, the despair and the anger; follow the eyes to grow old by the end of the film.
It's ridiculous that a film student can't write a film review, but I do feel that my words are too shallow and ignorant, and I shouldn't and can't summarize or criticize the director's painstaking efforts. Maybe I can say more in other themed films, this kind of national suffering is really too powerful.
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