Chivago incarnate as "Old Beauty"

The long-known film finally had the opportunity to watch it on the big screen yesterday, which is far from the original expectation. The film is more than qualified, but it is definitely not a masterpiece, and it pales in comparison to other works by David Len. It can be seen that the ambition and investment of the film are extremely huge. From the exterior, interior layout and even the shooting of the camera, it presents a breathtaking and majestic momentum. However, the dazzling images still cannot hide the flaws of the script. After all, there are gaps in the story of old Russia told by Americans. Perhaps since the early 1950s, after the baptism of "every communist must turn against the Communist Party" in the "McCarthy era", the entire American generation seems to have a gap, and there is no longer the objective rationality of the old Roosevelt era. old view. In fact, many "Russian factions" in the U.S. government ended their careers because of the "White Terror" initiated by Congressman McCarthy. Since then, the Soviet Union has been an unreasonable "spectacle" to Americans.

It's a bit of a stretch. Going back to the film "Doctor Chivago", the film shows traces of the "post-McCarthy era" everywhere. Among them, the misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the Russian Revolution and even the Soviet regime can not help but find that the script is out of the same nostril as the US government at that time, which is rare in Hollywood, which has always advocated liberalism. It is not so much that Hollywood created a different Russia, but rather the reflection of ordinary Americans on Russia back then. There is nothing wrong with the first half of the description of the First World War and the subsequent end of the tsarist government. After two revolutions, the establishment of the Soviet government and the civil war, problems began to emerge.

The original novel takes history as the stage and composes an elegy for the old imperial and Russian era. Of course, Boris Basternak's novels are not written to sing the praises of the tsarist government, but are purely nostalgic for the old society that will never return. The love between men and women is only an episode in the process, not the goal. When "Doctor Zivago" fell into the hands of the Americans, he misused the gods and arbitrarily expanded the entanglement of love, almost completely submerging the original intention of the novel. Simply using the "freedom" value that Americans believe in to dispel the charm of the Soviet Union, and use the "freedom" will to love to satirize the Soviet Union's autocracy, this "Soviet Union" can only be the wishful thinking of the Americans.

The disastrous result is that both Zivago and Lana have become "Americans" and have nothing to do with Russia. On the one hand, Zivago wept over the Cossack cavalry slaughtering procession; on the other hand, in the name of "freedom", he practiced "indulgence. Even if the Soviet government is wrong, how can a land that has endured the shackles of Mongolia's iron hoofs, successfully resisted Napoleon and even Nazi Germany, is proud of inheriting the Greek Byzantine Empire's heritage, and regards the Orthodox Church as the righteousness of Christ. ? Too bad for the Russians. The Soviet cadres in the film are extremely rigid and dull, as if they are robots, not as good as our "Sister A Qing"! Hollywood's naivety and stupidity can be utterly speechless at times.

"Doctor Zivago" was originally well-positioned to become another set of "Gone with the Wind". The difference is that "Gone with the Wind" is a detailed account of one's own past; while "Doctor Zivago" is to expose other people's "embarrassment" . It is no wonder that human beings always look at their own navels and talk, even better than David. Even can't cross this threshold, what more can we ask for. On the contrary, Stanley Kubrick was very observant. Although he did not know how much he knew about Russia, the two countries in "Dr. Strangelove" were the same as the Soviet Union, and the blame for the huge disaster in the end was more in the United States, not the Soviet Union. I really have to be amazed at Da Dao Shi's amazing knowledge and courage!

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