The black and white images did not affect the poetic and visual beauty of the film at all, and many of the images were unforgettable. Such as the reflection of the black census tree trunk on the dark water, the beach in Ivan's dream, the apples that fell in the rain, the carriage, and the horses leisurely nibbling on the apples. And when there is a scene about love in the movie, the scene in front of everyone also becomes a rare bright color: a clean, broad and straight birch forest.
Whether it is a dream or reality, the pictures always present a harmonious and refined elegance. Many pictures are like excellent oil paintings, showing a kind of beauty that we can't call, perhaps this is called poetry. Showing a war-themed movie in this way is naturally full of tension.
Ivan is no longer like a child in the war, not only in his firmness and courage that surpasses adults, but also in his consciousness and initiative in war. He never thinks that war is not about children, but only about children. It's just a matter of adults or men, so he can justly refute the officer: Have you ever seen a massacre? You have no reason to say that war is not about children. Ivan is full of revenge mission, even blind to think that all Germans are bloodthirsty, and his mission is to rescue the victims and avenge the dead. Ivan is pitiful not because he has become nothing, but because he can no longer live without the war, the mission of revenge can no longer allow him to stop, he does everything possible to return to the battlefield, and who is the target of his revenge? It is hard to imagine what will happen to Ivan after the war, will the nightmare leave him? This is the biggest trauma of war. It doesn't leave you with nothing, it leaves you completely lost.
The war between Ivan and himself shows the loss of human nature and irrationality, which is even more cruel than the war, because before we learned that little Ivan was hanged, we have seen the children of Nazi executives, It was also killed, and the corpses of children in rows were shocking. Whose cruelty is this, Nazis? Russian army? Or war? It can only be said that the entire human race is lost, confused and irrational. On the one hand, it is said that the war cannot affect children. In fact, it is the innocent children who are hurt the most. They are massacred like adults. This is the truth, and not only Physically, it is more of a spiritual destruction.
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