The story of a 12-year-old Soviet scout, presented with unique footage

Leif 2022-03-23 09:02:39

Andrei Tarkovsky's shots are fantastic. There are a number of such directors in the Soviet Union, such as Guede and Gregory Alexandrov, who are all of a very high standard.

But from a storytelling perspective, Andrei Tarkovsky is weaker.

The film was Andrei Tarkovsky's first completed film, shot at the age of 28 and won the Golden Lion among others.

Hence the public attention.

This story has a certain anti-war implication than the "Mirror" and "Flying to Space" filmed behind it. Through the story of the boy Ivan, the story of the Red Army scouts during World War II is reproduced.

The 12-year-old boy lost his mother and sister because of the war. Since then, he has nothing to worry about in the world. He devoted himself to the fight against the Nazis without hesitation until he was finally killed.

Among them, Masha in the birch forest, the scene of carrying oranges in the rain, and the scene of the captain and the lieutenant escorting Ivan to the German front line are all very delicate, and the unique scenery is presented by the expressive director.

The story has also become a film remembered by the times because of its anti-war and the national strength of the Soviet Union at that time.

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Extended Reading
  • Kayli 2022-04-23 07:03:27

    Before Laota did not form his own poetic feeling in the early days, it was not much different from the ordinary poetic films of the Soviet Union. The film shows a lot of his novel design, but the entire visual element arrangement is not much different from the Soviet war film of the first thaw. Re-view evaluation is basically unchanged. My favorite self-inflicted work of that cinematic movement turned out to be the Soldier's Song (if it had a better start). In fact, the pathetic sound design at the end and the hardcore poetry don't feel good together, it's better to have a suggestive shot that allows us to follow the protagonist's conscious activity (similar to Visconti) but This can't be regarded as the work of the old tower, right? His authorship is gone.

  • Mabelle 2022-03-14 14:12:24

    8.0 Almost crying, Ivan fell asleep in the darkness of a deep well, and Ivan and his mother in the dream looked at themselves in the light of the well. Throughout the story, the old tower emphasizes the opposition between war and nature (using dreams as the carrier), but in these surreal scenes, dreams are the expansion of the real space, and the two are separated by only one water surface in the same dimension.

Ivan's Childhood quotes

  • Ivan: Mamma, there's a cuckoo up there!

  • Ivan's Mother: If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.