In 1956, Khrushchev presided over the 20th Congress of the CPSU, which fundamentally denied Stalin and thoroughly criticized the cult of personality and dictatorship. The Soviet film industry ushered in a new atmosphere, and "The Wild Goose" was born in this context, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes International Film Festival. In fact, there is no "geese" in the film at all, and the flying creatures in the film are actually "cranes". But in terms of connotation, the Chinese translation of "Yan Nanfei" is closer to the temperament of the film: poetic and melodious, humanistic thinking, not only the ileum of children's love, but also the distant feeling of family and country.
The formation of temperament is due to the film's extraordinary movement of mirrors and the flowing light and shadow. The director Kalatozov used deep focus photography as the foundation, hand-held photography as an auxiliary, long lenses as accessories, and embellished scenes with admiration (the farewell to the soldiers at the beginning and the welcome at the end are enough to show the director's skill), and use a wide-angle lens to Highlight the sense of space between the hero and heroine, to set off the length of love and the hidden crisis, plus a series of artistic treatments such as hidden effects, slow motion shots, dazzling editing, etc., making the film as agile as a piano flick, as The harmonica plays brightly.
The most rare thing is that the film has no political sense of ideology, but more from the perspective of human nature. It's like the entangled psychology of the heroine: on the one hand, she misses her lover, on the other hand, she has to commit herself to her lover's younger brother, and feels guilty and remorseful for her lover's betrayal. Such "bourgeois" inner conflict enriches the characters' images, adds flesh and blood, and narrows the distance between them and the audience. And what extends from "humanization" is the humanist tendency of the film: it is not intended to shape war heroes, but to reinforce the cruelty of war and the importance of the collective. Especially at the end of the film, the deduction of "yearning for life and rebuilding our homeland" gives people infinite reverie and hope.
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