The Soldier's Song (1959)

Ambrose 2022-03-25 09:01:19

The best wartime love story I've ever seen, or the best wartime feature film I've ever seen.

A unique perspective, with young war heroes on vacation to visit relatives as clues, to record a series of stories on the way home. The kind and brave Alyosha met the beautiful and enthusiastic Shula on the train. The incident was compact, and the green feelings quickly heated up and came to an abrupt end. They didn't even have time to leave their contact information.

Two innocent children with pure smiles and extremely cute. The combination of close-up, light and shadow, and the use of flashback lenses allow the audience to see a beautiful Shura.

The whole film did not choose to depict the war head-on, nor did it use any official preaching from Weiguang, and what I saw and heard along the way was cruel. A beautiful love that was suddenly interrupted, a soldier with a broken leg who did not want to go home, an aunt who drove overnight, a comrade-in-arms wife who was looking for another home, a Ukrainian refugee who fled, a hometown without a male, and a mother who had no time to get sick. They met for a short time and then separated.

There is no deliberate depiction, no hoarseness, everything is presented naturally, and all this is the sin of war.

Whether as a theme reflecting on war or celebrating the nation's soldiers, the way the film is presented is very commendable. Just imagine how many Alyoshas left their mothers and their lovers to go to the battlefield during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, but they never returned. As the film says, this is just the story of an ordinary Russian (Soviet) soldier.

Our country has also paid a painful price for revolution and war. In contrast, the domestic war films and war dramas in recent years are really embarrassing. There is no seriousness that respects history and reveres life, indulges in clever, clown-like performances and loses direction, and consumes the audience as ignorant fools.

The red polar bear has long since fallen, and we are running on the high-speed train of the rise of great powers. Yet at the height of the art of (war) cinema, Big Brother is still Big Brother.

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  • Alexzander 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    8/10. The new wave of the Soviet Union simply and clearly shows that the image of ordinary people under the test of war will shine for a long time. The opening of the film shows a close-up of the enemy tank rolling over the ground from the mother's eyes staring into the distance. The camera is shot backwards when the tank is chasing the tiny Alyosha To set off the soldier's psychological experience of escaping, when Alyosha raised his head in front of the crater's artillery to fight back, a young face who had experienced the baptism of war appeared for the first time. When Alyosha visited his wife who had betrayed her husband on the front line, he did not even leave any soap, and angrily left the luxurious apartment equipped with piano and tea set. After his wife’s helpless expression and the soap bubbles blown by the children on the stairs shattered, the Soviets were loyal to him. The noble quality of love was destroyed by the war years. The real move came to the end. The scene of Alyoshata car looking for her mother and her mother running across the field was very dynamic. The horn of the truck made her mother hug Alyosha and wrapped her black headscarf around her. , An unspeakable melancholy. The description of the enlightenment of eroticism is very subtle, like a hug hiding in a car in a straw pile, and the overlay shot is pulled up to Shula's upper body with the cleaned feet, expressing tender emotions.

  • Jaleel 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    Pure love, people at that time were all so simple, they had a single-minded brain, and they were so simple and kind... The male protagonist is really lucky, to be able to finally meet his mother, it was so touching that it almost moved me to cry So...DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN... So the actors' performances are so concise and powerful. The old Soviet films are really a set, thoughtful and profound. 5 star recommendation.

Ballad of a Soldier quotes

  • Alyosha Skvortsov: Comrade General, instead of my decoration, could I go home to see my mother?