The synopsis of the plot will not be repeated here. The film begins with a clear meaning. The director quotes Tolstoy's famous saying in the famous work "Anna Karenina" - "Happy families are always similar, and unfortunate families are different in their own way. Unlucky". The opening chapter sets a grim and depressing tone. The film seems to be about the misfortunes of an ordinary family, but it actually reflects many social problems. What the director satirized was the social ills and the ugliness of human nature in Russia, the motherland.
The ethereal poetic shots and minimalist electronic music at the beginning of the film, the white snow, the winter sun, the mirror-like lake water, and the scattered birds, all convey to us the icy background of the film, and make us understand that this is a place without love. A society without love, a country without love, and an era without love.
The film is based on a tragedy that happened in an ordinary Russian family, accusing society and the times. In the film, the young Alyosha stared out of the window after returning home, and even his unhappiness when he was seeing the guests, formed a kind of intertextual relationship with the fierce and merciless quarrel of his parents later. The son is rebellious and unhappy because of the bad relationship between his parents (it seems that director Sarkinsev arranged for his son to be neglected by his parents in the film is one of the creative motifs), and the source of the rupture of the relationship between the parents comes from son. The son seems to be a burden, hindering the development of the parents, making them unable to form a family and stagnant in the current predicament. Alyosha's death is indeed a good solution (but this method is too ruthless and ruthless), and the teenager uses self-sacrifice to make his parents develop each other (although he is caught in an endless predicament in the future).
From the perspective of text and play, the mother went to her son in order to maintain her dignity, and the father's shirk responsibility from the beginning to the later attempt to take responsibility, all made the characters have arcs, but they were always unable to get rid of the fate that was already written. , unable to change the situation of "the mother has no intention, the father is incompetent". The two moved from a stalemate to unity, seeking common ground while reserving differences for one goal (finding their son Alyosha), which once gave the audience a glimmer of hope, but their aphasia and powerlessness, such as being stuck in their throats, made this hypocritical and fragile relationship come to an end. . This is exactly what the director wants the audience to understand: The husband and wife did not break up because of external conflicts or disagreements: it was because they never loved! The unfeeling union between the two finally led to an even greater tragedy. Lonely modern people are not incapable of expressing love, but have no love. There is no love to sue, nowhere to sue, no one to sue, there is really no love, there is really no love to sue.
The film is dominated by cold tones, with cold, grayish-blue colors covering the screen, making people feel overly depressing. The few warm colors are integrated into the protagonist's eating and leisure, two-way cheating and sex scenes. Is there still love in this world? No, all this is but an expression of human desires, true or false. Eating and nursing is hypocritical socializing, dating is a manifestation of sexual implication, and making love is not an emotional surge, but a catharsis of animal desires. In the banquet hall, the girls sat around taking selfies and chanted "Cheers to love", which now sounds like a perfect irony. The absence of love is actually the Achilles' heel of all modern people.
The images in this film are indeed master-like, and there is a hint of Tarkovsky's legacy in the steady and slow push and pull. The combination of Steadicam and orbit, the long shot is king, the big vision is not lyrical, but it is extremely depressing, the fallen leaves and the barren field, the empty shots of dead branches and fallen leaves create a cold and cold atmosphere, but the slow rhythm makes people feel Nervous, restless and powerless. With the consistent gray and cold tone of the film, it can be described as a model of expressing emotions and participating in narrative through images.
It must be mentioned that political satire and metaphor are the main points of expression in the director's creation. In line with "Leviathan", the film uses the inaction of the police department to push the responsibility to social organizations, satirizing the bureaucracy of the government department. The "doomsday mood" clearly expressed in the film seems to be externalized as cannibalistic Soviet-era abandoned buildings and buildings, and internalized as the indifference, impatience, irritability, mistrust and confusion of the future of contemporary Russians (in the case of Alyosha). Sick grandmother, for example), seems to point the source of the problem and the source of the contradiction directly to the former Soviet Union, accusing the alienation of contemporary Russians from the legacy of the former Soviet Union. To sum up, the film has achieved the ultimate in atmosphere creation, rhythm control and core expression. It is already a masterpiece in contemporary films. If the problems can be refined and the background and political factors of the times can be faded into, it may become a famous Russian film. Works of film history.
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