Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Screenwriter: Rozov
Starring: Tatyana Samoylova Aleksey Batalov
Story introduction:
Veronica and Paul Reese is a sweet couple, and just as they revel in the sweetness of their date, war breaks out. Boris took the initiative to participate in the war. Before leaving, Veronica ran to the school, but there were too many people. Boris couldn't hear her shout. Boris rushed to the battlefield with hope and regret.
The city was bombed, and a bombing razed Veronica's home, and she lost both of her parents. The grief-stricken Veronica came to Boris's house, and Boris's father let the lonely Veronica live in his home from now on. Boris's cousin Mark likes Veronica. During a bombing, Veronica fell into Mark's arms because she was afraid. She did not resist Mark's temptation and lost herself in him.
Boris's unit was surrounded, and the male publicist ordered him and another who fought with him to go to the front line to scout for places where they could break out. In an abandoned tank, his comrade was injured. Boris carried his comrade up to a place in the woods. He put his comrade down to rest. Just when he put down his comrade and joked with him, a bullet hit him. . Suddenly, the world turned around, and Boris fell to the ground.
Veronica, who has married Mark, is very remorseful. She used to be lively and lovely, and now she has become a young woman who is unhappy all day long. The girlfriend of a wounded soldier in the hospital couldn't wait to marry someone else. The young soldier was heartbroken and distraught, his howls spurred more wounded soldiers, and the hospital was in chaos. Veronica called the doctor in the hospital, Boris's father. In order to comfort the wounded soldier, he said a lot of harsh words to satirize the woman who betrayed the soldier. Every word of his words was like a knife, which deeply stabbed Veronica. Heart. The grieving Veronica ran frantically. He came to a bridge, and there was a speeding train below. Just when she was about to jump, a little boy rushed to the road, and a car was approaching on the opposite side. . Veronica turned around and rushed up • • • to save the child. This is a child who was separated from his relatives at the station. His name is Boris! Veronica hugged the boy tightly!
Returning home with little Boris, Veronica intends to find him the little squirrel toy that Boris gave him to play with. Only then did she learn that the little squirrel had been taken by Mark and given to another woman, and Mark had already had another woman outside! An angry Veronica was about to leave the house with her child to live outside by herself, but was stopped by Boris's father.
One day, a soldier came from outside looking for Boris's father. Only then did Veronica learn that her own Boris had died on the battlefield. But she was not reconciled, the soldiers did not see Boris's body, Veronica always thought that Boris was still alive and was waiting for him persistently.
The war was won, and all the people on the street were hugging and cheering. Veronica looked for her Boris in the crowded crowd. She met the fellow countryman who was with Boris when he was injured. The fellow villager happily gave Veronica the flowers that others gave her. He lowered his head when he saw Veronica's inquiring eyes, and told her the truth in disappointment. . Veronica went crazy, she was crying while walking in the crowd with flowers, everyone was laughing, only she was crying heartbroken.
Witnessing Boris's dead fellow countrymen climb on the train, he said a touching speech to the crowd, Veronica stopped, stopped crying, for the sake of what the fellow countrymen said to live, for a better life, she put her hands in her hands. The flowers were scattered to the reunited people around. Looking up, she once again saw the herringbone geese that she had seen with Boris!
Theme:
Although Veronica in the film could not stand the temptation and waiting to turn her back on Boris, her love for Boris has never stopped, and her waiting has never stopped. Their tragic love illustrates not only the theme of "war damage to people", but also the theme of "eternal love". Although Boris is dead, the little Boris she got by chance can continue to bring warmth to Veronica's life in place of Boris and give her the courage to continue living.
Photography:
1. Asymmetrical composition. The film begins with the bridge that Veronica and Boris jumped over when they were dating. At this time, there is a large area of water on the right side of the screen, and the bridge is placed on the left side in an "S"-shaped curve.
2. There are many lenses with extreme angles. At the beginning of the film, a big overhead shot when the two were drenched by a watering truck, the oblique shot of the clock tower and the faces of the characters. Veronica's face is taken upside down when she lost her body in Mark, and the scene is getting smaller and smaller, from the whole face to the part, and then to the close-up of the glasses (the jump-cut images of these scenes show the war brought people fear). The rotation of the trees as Boris fell. These form a unique photography style, which will give the audience a compact, strong and shocking visual experience as a whole.
3. Careful arrangement of the background. Veronica and Boris were walking on the road, and the road surface clearly reflected their figures. It can be clearly seen here that the road was deliberately watered to increase the reflection.
4. A unique portrayal of war. We don't see the enemy in this movie! ! So how did the director portray the macro environment of the war? a scene! In only one scene, the director vividly portrayed the brutality of the war.
An air raid siren was issued on the radio, and Veronica's father told her to hide in the end, saying that if there was any danger, he would go to the bomb shelter with her mother. The bombing outside continued, Veronica waited underground like many others, and the alarm was finally lifted. Veronica said goodbye to her friends and went home, but she suddenly found that many fire trucks were driving in the direction of her home. Her steps were getting faster and faster, and finally she ran. She returned to the front of the building. The building had been blown up, and she ran upstairs quickly. At this time, the camera stood still, and followed Veronica upstairs in circles. The angle of the shot was getting higher and higher, and the shooting angle was almost upward. The blown up stairs were hanging in the air like a standing wall. Sliding down, the face of a firefighter who yells "Danger, come down" up. In the next shot, the camera is standing on the stairs, looking down on Veronica running up, the burning wood next to it keeps falling, and the camera keeps panning and running upstairs with Veronica - there is an open space in front of Veronica, Her home was razed and her parents were gone. The camera stood there quietly, looking at Veronica's back from behind. The ups and downs at the front seem to suggest the ups and downs of Veronica's life at this time, while the still stare at the back is like the silent sympathy after witnessing her catastrophe.
There is no enemy figure in the film, and it does not show how brutal the enemy is. Only through this paragraph can profoundly express the pain caused by the war.
Editing:
There are two clips in the film that are most commendable.
The first segment is when Mark plays the piano for Veronica and encounters an air raid. Mark was playing the piano, and the bereaved Veronica was leaning back in the chair, and nothing could lift her spirits now. Mark stopped and complained about the war, if it weren't for the war, he could now sit in the Tchaikovsky Hall and play for her. The air raid siren sounded again, and Mark asked Veronica to hide in the ground, but Veronica would not go. He persuaded him many times, but Veronica would not go either. The situation outside became more and more urgent. In desperation, he sat in front of the piano and began to play the piano frantically, trying to cover up the siren of the air raid with the sound of the piano. Suddenly, a loud bang! Veronica jumped up from her chair in fright, and Mark stood up too. The electricity went out in the room, and it was pitch black. Mark ran over and hugged her and put her on the chair. He tried to close the window. There was a louder noise and the glass was all shattered. Veronica rushed to the window and hugged Mark. leaning against the wall.
Veronica pressed close to Mark, and Mark gradually calmed down. He looked at Veronica, raised her chin with his hand, and kissed her. Veronica turned and ran away. Veronica stepped back, he followed step by step, Veronica turned around and ran out of the door, Mark closed the door before her. Veronica was driven to a dead end, Mark said he loved her, Veronica denied it, and slapped Mark, Mark kept saying, Veronica slammed him, she turned and ran away but was caught. He pulled back. He kept talking about his love for her, she beat her down for the last struggle, and finally she gave up the struggle.
Veronica leaned against the wall and gave up her efforts. Mark picked her up and walked to the bed step by step on the broken glass residue. At this time, the superposition effect appeared, and Boris's troops were received.
The editing of this part is very crisp, and the horror of the explosion to Veronica is vividly displayed. At the same time, the tense rhythm between Veronica's escape and Mark's recovery is also very well grasped.
In the second paragraph, Boris was shot and fell. He carried his wounded comrade to a forest, and the ground was full of water. He found a piece of dry pine land to put his comrade down, and asked if he was still alive after half-playing. The comrade told him that it was a little difficult to breathe. He joked with his comrades, "We're also going to your wedding," and grinned. Before he could take his smile back, a shot rang out! He raised his head, the sky was getting further and further away from him, his standing body kept leaning, his comrades were calling him, he hugged a tree trunk and slowly slid down. Immediately, the sky was spinning, and there was a superposition. The superimposed picture was of him running on the stairs to find Veronica. At this time, the shot of the woods was clockwise, and his movement of running the stairs was counterclockwise. The potentials do not cancel each other out, but create a violent shaking and disturbing movement effect. When he ran up the stairs, he came out of the door with Veronica in a wedding dress. The snow-white wedding dress reflected people's smiling faces. The picture gradually changed back, and the birch forest turned violently counterclockwise. Boris responded. fall to the ground.
This short paragraph subtly shows what Boris was thinking at the moment he was shot and fell to the ground.
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