The Massachusetts villa, the East Coast training camp, the film left the Siberian forest at the beginning of the film and came to the United States. The pure American English dialogue between soldiers and non-commissioned officers, and Mozart's music made me a little trance, but the film quickly returned to the railway in the Siberian forest. Young cadet Andrei Tolstoy boarded the train back to Moscow with the team returning from training. During the nonsense, he and several brothers broke into the box of Jane Callahan, an American woman.
Jane drove away a few non-commissioned officers with a hoarse roar and calmly sang "Love is an unruly bird" ( L' amour est un oiseau rebelle). amour est un oiseau rebelle Love is an unruly bird
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser No one can tame
Et c'est bien en vain qu'on l'appelle, if it chooses to refuse
S'il lui convient de refuser. Yes It's called in vain...
just the last word of the last sentence makes a nondescript [refju:zei], which is hilarious. This performance shows Jane's personality vividly, sophisticated, snobbish, and uninhibited. She then asked Andre, who stayed behind, if the opera scared off his companions. After learning that Andre could also perform opera, she invited him to come too. Andre chose "You Don't Be a Lover" (Non piu andrai,farfallone amoroso):
Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso, now you don't want to be a lover anymore,
notte e giorno d'intomo girando, now you are not too young in terms of age,
delle belle turbando il riposo, a man should be a soldier,
Narcisetto, Adoncino d'amor. Stop talking about love every day.
This aria really suits him, and he will soon be graduating from the military academy as an honorable Russian officer. But I soon began to wonder if Andrei sang the opera myself, and after a few glasses of champagne, the young Andrei also fully revealed his personality, and the spark between him and Jane reflected a trace Ominous color.
When the train arrived in Moscow, Jane's conversation with her father revealed her mission to come here thousands of miles away: relying on her public relations skills to win funds for her father's project. It seems that although she is in a strange country, this mission is within her grasp. While the non-commissioned officers and students lined up to return to the camp and sang the marching march, Andre sang "You Don't Be a Lover" with the strength of the wine. He was just like that, out of tune with the surroundings. Because Liang Wendao mentioned the tragic ending of the film in his comments before, this American woman suddenly reminded me of Zinaida in "First Love", which is still an enhanced version. Jane is more sophisticated and sophisticated than Vologa's dream lover, sharing her lust for affection and her hopelessly selfishness.
The next story is almost a double line, Jane completes her plan step by step, while Andre loses herself, maybe this is the true side of this young man. If the audience calm down and think about it, young Tolstoy is indeed not qualified to be an officer, and his naivety and willfulness pushed himself into a dangerous situation. Our fears were confirmed for the first time until he fought a duel with a brother who shared weal and woe for illusory feelings. And when he was seriously wounded, his "Anna Karenina" accompanied General Redloff to the Carnival of Shakespeare. Russians believe that if you don't have a good time for Thanksgiving, you will have bad luck throughout the year. For Jane, happiness is a fine wine that she can enjoy at will. For the cautious general, glasses of vodka make him experience a crazy day, and he doesn't need to worry about whether he wants to go to the ice cave on the Moscow River the next day. repent. Andre, on the other hand, was determined to drop out of school and go home. This was actually a correct decision, but in the end, emotion overcame reason again, and Jane was persuaded by others to mistake him for a faint love. If he stayed, he was destined to experience a more tragic catastrophe.
The graduation ceremony on the Kremlin Square was the last highlight before Andrei plunged into the abyss. Under the sun, the mighty military cadets and the military band remained motionless, waiting for the arrival of the Tsar together with the distinguished guests on the viewing platform. The bell rang, and the tsar, the little prince, and the horses came to the front of the queue to the rhythm of the Preobrajensky March. Greetings and salutes, the graduating non-commissioned officers shouted "Ula", and Jane's smile and gaze had actually pushed Andre into the abyss when they were splitting up.
The general proposed to Jane, and Andre seemed to calm down for a few days, but Jane's sudden visit made him stupefied again. There are often "Sex before death" in movies, so this one is simply "Sex before suicide".
The young officers performed "The Marriage of Figaro" for the Archduke. During the break, Andre overheard the conversation between Jane and the general, and was in awe. Unlike the last time he wielded his sword to seek death, this time he took the band's bow and chopped it towards the general... A few days later, at the Moscow railway station, Andrei's brothers came to see him off, he will be exiled to Siberia, This time, there is no champagne, no beauty, and no "Carmen". The brothers sang military songs for him, and he still responded with "You Don't Be a Lover"... Ha, still incompatible, then such exile and self-imposed exile is indeed not a bad result, if this time he escaped again. Zed, who knows if he will assassinate the Tsar tomorrow for a woman who is not worthy of love. This time, the rap lyrics in Italian should be as easy to understand as in Russian. If he doesn't understand, then life will teach him one day not to be a lover again.
Andre, don't be a lover anymore, go to the place in the poem and enjoy the indifferent but bearable life with the person who loves you deeply. Maybe one day your Jane deeply regrets that she came to Siberia not far away, and you just look at her, control your trembling hands, light a cigarette, and let Jane leave as slowly as a curling cigarette...
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