2003, also When I was in junior high school, I bought Li Jian's first album "Homecoming". This album has always been one of the pinnacles of Chinese music in my heart, and it was also regarded by me as a point of departure from pop music to "non-mainstream". . At that time, my favorite song on the album was "Ten Minutes in a Lifetime", which was full of nostalgia for the former Soviet Union. Li Jian said in the copy that this song was based on an old Soviet movie, called "Song of the Soldiers". It is about a Soviet soldier who was allowed a few days off to go home to visit his mother, but due to various delays on the way, when the soldier finally got home, he had only ten minutes left~ Because of this song and the short few days next to it. Sentence copy, I was hit. It became one of my most memorable stories, one of my favorite stories, and one of my saddest stories. It's funny that I haven't seen the movie at all until now, almost ten years later.
Influenced by the song, I always thought that the film would focus on the last few minutes of Soldier Alyosha's reunion with his mother, but in fact the film focuses more on "delays of various things", so from a certain In a sense, this is not a war movie, but a typical "road movie". The story begins with a mother's memory of her son who died in battle, and then flashes back the unknown story of that year. The 19-year-old Alyosha has made contributions on the front line. The chief wants to commend him, but Alyosha only asks him to go home on vacation so that he can meet his mother and help repair the roof of the house. Due to the critical situation of the war, the chief only agreed to give Alyosha a few days of vacation and asked him to return to the team on time. In this way, the young Alyosha began his journey home.
Along the way, Alyosha met all kinds of people, saw betrayal, cruelty, all kinds of ugliness brought by war, and encountered the most pure and beautiful love. The love paragraph in the film is my favorite, so relaxed, innocent, and hot. Both Alyosha and Shula were hiding in a truck carriage. When we saw Alyosha for the first time, our beautiful and lovely Shula regarded the handsome young man in front of him as a hooligan, and kept panicking. Yelled "Mama" and even wanted to jump off the train to preserve the name~~ Of course, with the development of the story, the misunderstanding was eliminated, and the relationship between the two changed from hesitation to trust, from fear to love, a more subtle way. Things gradually came into being~~ The most impressive scene is when the two went to catch a special military train together. Alyosha told the ticket inspector that Shula was his wife, but Shula said no, and the two were driven down. Liao Sha asked Shula angrily, "Is it so difficult to say 'yes'?" Looking at the person she loved deeply, Shula didn't answer, and quickly changed the subject. I guess there is a girlish feeling hidden in it. Every girl can experience it~~ Simple Alyosha didn't go into it, but took off his military coat, put it on Shula, and then got into the military special train together. Shula wrapped the military coat tightly around her body, revealing only her youthful face, smiling happily like a flower~~ Finally it was time to part, Alyosha on the train shouted to Shula who was chasing the train They gave out their address and asked Shula to write a letter to herself, and Shula was shouting something, but the train was so noisy that they didn't hear each other after all, they only saw their loved ones slowly disappearing at the end of their sight ~
no Hollywood In a dramatic style, the mother and son, who finally met, greeted each other, hugged deeply, and then parted. The mother told Alyosha that she did not wait for her husband back then, but this time she must wait for her son. However, the final ending is clear at the beginning of the story. Alyosha was later killed in the war, and he never saw his beloved Shura again, and never saw his mother again. And many years later, even though she already knew the news of her son's death, her mother often stood alone in the middle of the road, silently looking to the end of the road~~
Before I watched the movie, I thought it would be a tragic film with the utmost sadness, but after watching it, I found that the main tone of the movie is so sunny, joyful and beautiful, especially the relationship between Shula and Alyosha love story, even making the war environment a sort of romantic backdrop. I admit that I have a strong nostalgic complex, the kind of big glasses of the heroine who has to warm up for 5 minutes even for a hug, countless close-up close-ups, and ripples in the soft light. Pleasantly beautiful. However, the movie is also tragic. I must praise the director's handling skills. The hero who told the audience the story at the beginning of the movie died in battle, and then in the later story, he showed everyone the handsome, kind, and innocent boy named Alyosha. , showing a short but beautiful love, showing the deep affection between him and his mother, showing the seriousness and determination of the mother to wait until the son returns again, and then telling the audience again that the boy died later. The news of the death of a stranger and the news of the death of a close friend are completely different. The two accounts of Alyosha's death in the film before and after played such a role. As the story unfolded, Alyosha's death became more and more difficult to accept, and it was even more heart-wrenching when it was finally recounted.
Alyosha, 19, died of youth.
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