On a major level, the film is unparalleled, incomparable to evaluation. At the end of the film, the subtitles team also added a knife: "Dedicated to all those who were burned by the scorching sun during the revolution." It can be seen that the film was so good that the subtitles team couldn't bear to be excited.
On one of the secondary levels, the film actually tells an emotional story of a noble young man's revenge due to the play of fate. At this level, the film has a certain "private" component. It's actually a story about personal vendettas. Personally, I don't think such a setting has a positive effect on the main plot. You can change the background of the work to the American Civil War, and the protagonist to the adopted son of a southern slave owner. It seems that the main plot can still be more or less established. The reason why it is the Soviet Revolution and not the Civil War is because the former is obviously more weighty and more "discussing value" from an ideological point of view.
Therefore, I think it is necessary to see that, under the shocking and even dazzling shooting methods and numerous metaphors and similes, the content of the story to be expressed is relatively straightforward and uncomplicated. It may not be an accident that the film won the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, which are more ideological, but only got one Cannes nomination at the three major European film festivals, which are more concerned with artistic depth.
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