In the 1960s, Tchaikovsky's camera language was quite adept. At the beginning, Ivan's smiling face is photographed with a rotating lens, highlighting his childhood happiness and forming a strong contrast with the later war period. When shooting an old man who lost his wife and suffered from war trauma because of the war, he deliberately separated a firewood door that kept opening and closing, in order to express the devastation of the war on the environment. When He Lin molested Martha, he used a close-up close-up to show her shyness at the time.
Ivan's character is full and three-dimensional, not only because of the composure brought by hating the Nazis because of the murder of his mother and his partner, but also as a child, crying when he is not allowed to go to the front, playing at home by himself, dreaming about his mother, etc. characteristics suited to his age.
The shot with the little girl in the car, with the exposure of the negatives completed by lightning, made the trees on both sides beautiful, the rain flowing down the hair, and the apples scattered all over the place, all full of poetry. The film does not directly show the war with a hail of bullets, but shows the cruelty of the war from countless aspects. Ivan's dreams and many conversations reveal that his mother and partner were massacred by the Nazis. The two scouts hanging on the tree showed the danger of scouts.
This is by no means a movie with the theme of the Soviet Union. It tells the war from the perspective of a child. Through the hatred caused by the murder of a relative who should have had a happy childhood, he chose to take revenge in person, thus reflecting on the cruelty of the war to us. Later, after the Soviet victory, German officers committed suicide, killing all their children at the same time, showing us that no matter which side, children are victims of war. In the end, Ivan's memory flashed back before his death. His mother was still by his side, and he played hide-and-seek with his friends, which perfectly echoed the beginning.
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