The poster of the movie shows a young man and a woman looking at each other at someone else's wedding. The two are in love with a smile on their lips. Below is a field of artillery fire, stunned soldiers and rout troops. I thought this was a movie about a love story in a war. Even if the war is raging, there should be no shortage of talented people and beautiful women, and there should be some beautiful pictures. Unexpectedly, the two and a half hours of viewing experience is really like sitting on pins and needles, almost want to fast forward. Is it because of the bad movie? Listen to me slowly. The film tells the story of the tragic events that occurred during World War II in "Warren", which is now a province on the northwestern border of Ukraine and was then known as the "Second Polish Republic". It borders Poland, Belarus and is where the three countries meet. This land is populated by Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Different races, have different religions, speak different languages and different customs. Although there are daily conflicts, they are peaceful. Until the war broke out, the place turned into a sea of scorched earth, and people of different beliefs killed each other and turned into a living hell on earth. The film begins with a simple and lively wedding. A Polish heroine goes to her sister's wedding, who is married to a Ukrainian. This shows that the ethnic atmosphere of the two countries was still very harmonious at that time. Although the customs were different, they were able to love and intermarry and were blessed by the villagers. The wedding was filled with joy, and everyone gathered in a circle, chasing each other, burning torches, dancing, and singing their own national songs. There are some customs in it that are familiar to Chinese people. For example, when the bridegroom greets the bride, he will always be blocked by the bridesmaids (of course, there is no red envelope), bowing to the parents (in China, it is probably kneeling and delivering tea). There is also an unfamiliar scene: the bride's head rests on the threshold, and the groom cuts off half of his braids and puts on a headscarf, symbolizing his status from a young girl to a young woman. This warm and sweet scene turned into a terrifying scene after the outbreak of the war. The heroine also fell in love with another Ukrainian youth. Under the bright moon, by the slowly flowing river, they made a private life. But she didn't wait for him, who came to propose, because her father was going to marry her to an older, wealthy local widower. She was forced to agree, but still maintained a lover relationship with the young man and became pregnant with his child. When the war broke out, the first to usher in was the Soviets who, under the banner of communism, overthrew the local tyrants and rich peasants and divided their fields. They arrested a large number of Ukrainians to do hard labor in Siberia, and the heroine and her family who were about to give birth were arrested. The young man arrives in danger, promising to bribe the officers and soldiers to save the heroine and several children left by her husband. But because the promise could not be fulfilled, he was embarrassed The angry Soviet shot to death in front of the delivery room. At this time, he heard the cry of a newborn baby. Father and son should not be born on the same day. It's miserable! But the real tragedy has only just begun. The Soviets came to the German army to find out all the Jews and kill them, and all the families that hid the Jews were regarded as the same kind. They rounded up all the Jews they caught, ordered them to strip naked and then machine-gunned them. There was a genocide for no reason. A bunch of white men, women and children collapsed amid cries and gunshots, and the scene became bloody. Later, the number of such collective executions was repeated, and the crowd, the executioners and the victims were all numb. The sight of everyone lining up, naked, with expressions on their faces, waiting for the gunshots, really shudders. Several families that sheltered Jews were executed in the same way. Even the Jews who survived and were not caught on the spot could not escape the hunger, panic, and disease that followed, and the hearts of people were more difficult to avoid than bullets. The heroine takes her children everywhere to escape the disaster, and her family is destroyed for helping the Jews. Her husband escaped from the front line with a near-death, and the two lay silent on the bed. Due to the lack of food, the husband went out for food and came back with only half of the head thrown in the bucket. At this time, the German army had just withdrawn, and the ultra-nationalist force, which was more terrifying than any army, had risen. The armed forces they set up slaughtered Poles everywhere under the banner of purging. Compared with the "humaneness" of the German army killing people with guns and weapons, their killing of Poles was more like treating animals, or even brutal killing. Five horses were dismembered, knives were stabbed with sticks, skins were peeled for cramps, and people were burned with guns... tragic. The movie reproduces this scene without any cover, and the level of violence and blood is almost at the peak of the movies I have seen in recent years. The scene of the heroine looking around after dawn is still vivid in my mind. The smoke of gunpowder dissipates the severed limbs and bones on the ground. She wanted to sip water in the well, and what floated up were the pale corpses of several children. The background music immediately sounded a piercing chirping sound, like the same humming sound in her mind, and she finally couldn't help crying when the road was almost cut off. The desperate heroine had to go to her only relative and marry her sister's family in Ukraine. If the hair does not exist, how can the skin be attached? The elder sister's family also could not escape the tragic fate of being washed in blood. Ukrainian husband's brother told him that killing your wife will at least save your children. Because her husband couldn't bear to kill his wife, a family of young and old was brutally killed by an extremist group outside their home. What used to be a warm hair-cutting ceremony is now a bloody guillotine. At the beginning, I was joking about being blocked by relatives, I'm going to burn down your house, and now I have become The raging fire in front of him. The most tragic ending is slightly euphemistically expressed by the film using a montage technique. The heroine's child was eaten by wolves, and she died on the way to escape from hunger and cold. On the road leading to the "Naihe Bridge", her children and her lover could finally come to meet, and the three of them sat on the pony carriage and drove slowly forward. The film is so messily edited, and the skipping paragraphs made me wonder a few times that I'd seen the abridged version. (150 minutes, that's right) I barely finished the story in two thousand words. But this history is real. More than 80,000 Poles were slaughtered in this man-made disaster, and the cruelty revealed in the movie is only less than one-tenth of the truth. Humans are the most ferocious animals. This is the real horror. There is a cold wind behind them.
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