I haven't seen a lot of Russian movies, but I really have no idea about Russian movies. From sleepy Tarkovsky, to under the cloud of incomprehensible electrons, to this somewhat funny, overly restrained lovelessness. None of the Russian movies amazes me, and even when I mention Russian movies, a drowsiness strikes me.
First of all, the original name of the film, Loveless, is obviously more appropriate than the name "No Love to Tell". The reason for the indifferent, broken marriages and families in the film is not that the love for each other cannot be expressed, but that the love has completely disappeared without a trace.
The movement of the lens in this film is very restrained, there are almost no close-ups, and a large number of panoramic views are used. I have to say that the objective and calm effect is achieved, but it does reduce the audience's sense of participation to a very low state.
The beginning of the film is a broken marriage, there is no remnant of love between each other, only hatred is left, and the children are the biggest victims of all this. Selfish, greedy parents find new love for each other, spread love unreservedly on new objects, and draw nutrients from them.
Children are actually emotional receivers in a relationship. When parents' love flows between each other, the flowing love will benefit the children. When parents hate each other, children will naturally accept these bad emotions. Some parents express a lot of love to their children, but they are very indifferent to each other. What the children really feel is the indifference, not the love. Not to mention that in this film, the mother whose soul has been corroded because of the hatred that has persisted for too long, is even more devastating to her son.
I actually wanted to talk a little bit about the role of the mother in this film. Can a woman who is already a mother really take the love of another man as her only nourishment, and tell outsiders that she does not love her own child with a smile? The director added the role of the grandmother - a terrible woman with serious obstacles to expressing love, poor woman - can be seen to give a reasonable explanation for the heroine's character behavior, but still seems to be only a fighting nation Fierce and cruel.
Several metaphors in the film also look interesting. The bridge to find the child in the old building, once gorgeous, now the old building full of holes is like the dilapidated love and marriage of the two protagonists, and I want to find the crystallization of their love in this ruins - the child is naturally impossible. The death of the child at the end of the film is also a symbol of the demise of the love between the two.
At the end of the film, the love between the two and each other's new love, with the passage of time, also disappeared. This cruel and coincidental ending belongs only to two people whose souls have been broken? Is it the director's punishment for the two? Or in the director's mind, will human love evolve into this? The answer depends on what the audience thinks.
View more about Loveless reviews
