It seems that overnight, he entered the dream in the excitement of savoring a happy and carefree middle-class life and looking forward to a bright future. However, when he woke up, he found that he had fallen directly into the rolling revolutionary torrent. Sadly, , he did not participate in the revolution as a revolutionary, but became a class enemy of the dictatorship of the proletariat, struggling with his life in the surging revolutionary wave.
Zhivago's sudden change in life can be said to be inevitable under the historical background, or it can be said to be an accident caused by his free poetry creation. When he learned of the success of the "October Revolution" and the birth of the Soviet government, Zhivago, who was in the World War I field hospital, praised it with poetic cheers: "What a superb surgical operation! The old ulcer! Straightforwardly made a verdict on a century of injustice... This is a feat that has never been done before, this is a miracle in history!" Who knows, when he returns home from the battlefield, he finds that the original mansion has been He was requisitioned by the state and became the property of the Revolutionary Committee, while himself, his wife and family members became the key monitoring objects of the two Revolutionary Committee directors. Those cold expressions and blunt words fully expressed the revolution's negative attitude and determination to clean up all the remnants of the old society.
Faced with this "earth-shaking" change, Zhivago, who was puzzled, was persuaded by his wife, Tonya, to swallow his voice and just hope to live in peace. However, only after encountering Yevgraf, his half-brother, who joined the revolution in his early years and is now a Soviet secret policeman, did Zhivago learn that he had been regarded by the regime as a "revolutionary" because of his earlier published poetry. "Potential threat.
Poetic feelings and fantasies, the fervor and cruelty of the revolution, are incompatible with each other. In desperation, Zhivago accepted his brother's suggestion and moved the whole family to the countryside, hoping to avoid political pursuit. However, people are not as good as heaven. Zhivago, who was temporarily enjoying a peaceful life in the countryside, was "accidentally" kidnapped by the Red Army guerrillas and became a military doctor for the revolutionary team. Judging from the fact that the guerrillas need a doctor, this kidnapping does not seem to be the same. Not a simple "accident". For more than a year, Zhivago fought with the guerrillas and witnessed the inhumane killing methods used by revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. The poet's temperament made him unable to endure those mutilated corpses and unrecognizable dead people. , and the resulting terrifying associations and soul torment, when he found out in a pursuit that the enemy who was killed was actually a teenage child, his bottom line of compromising his life and survival finally collapsed, he chose Escape - Leaving the team without authorization during a snowstorm. Therefore, he became a deserter of the revolution, a political prisoner and a wanted criminal. Even if he hid in an abandoned hut in a remote country, he still could not completely escape the grasp of the "revolution". In the dark winter night, when ghostly wolves wandered and howled near the hut, Zhivago had to write poetry on his dusty desk to fight the cold and fear.
In addition to Zhivago's ups and downs in life, there is another clue in the film, which is his love affair with Nora. For Zhivago, Tonya is the most competent wife, and Nora is his eternal spiritual home. After being a deserter, Zhivago's first thought was Nora. When he returned to the village like a ghost and found that the key still existed under the bricks agreed by the two, Zhivago couldn't help shedding tears. At that moment , It seems that the beauty of life has returned to the world. When the trail was discovered and both his and Nora's lives were in danger, Zhivago persuaded Nora to flee first, and he was ready to accept political punishment and die in order to guard his final spiritual home.
With the help of his younger brother Yevgraf's special powers, Zhivago finally returned to Moscow, and he was cleared of the more serious "counter-revolutionary" charges, and became a doctor again in a socialist hospital, treating patients and saving people. But can Zhivago finally save himself? He still fell on the streets of Moscow under the sun, because of the specious back, the spiritual home he regarded as more important than life...
Zhivago's life is like a collection of poems, full of romance and free will, and the colorful colors of thought jump in between. When the "revolutionary" powers wantonly play with the fate of individuals, he does not resist radically, but passively avoid them, hoping to exchange his indifference with the world for a temporary peace. It is a pity that the torrent of history is coming, and no one can completely avoid it. Everyone will be engulfed in it voluntarily, forced or unconsciously, and go with the wave. Zhivago is also constantly dodging, struggling with difficulty and pain, how many are unconscious, how many are helpless, how many misunderstandings and regrets...
Zhivago left suddenly and suddenly. Nora was gone, too, under the high wall where the huge portrait of Stalin hung. "It looks like she was arrested in the street in those days. She has been forgotten and is on the list of people who are missing. An unnamed number, died in one of the countless ordinary concentration camps or women's concentration camps in the north, or lost his whereabouts"...
However, after the torrent of history has flown for seventy years, the high wall collapsed, and the huge portrait instantly Disappeared. After more than ten years, the memory of the high wall and the portrait seems to have been annihilated, and there is no trace. The poetry, however, survived, and still has a bright brilliance that attracts me to savor it again and again.
(July 31, 2007, Shenzhen)
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