return

Kathleen 2022-11-14 03:09:05

Return (2003)
8.6
2003 / Russia / Drama Family / Andrei Sarkinsev / Vladimir Garin Ivan Dubran Lavov

No matter how contradictory and conflicting the characters in the camera are, the camera remains quiet and steady, locks the content firmly, restrains from being infected by the content without any emotion, just recording, recording the picture. The camera image and the framing are exquisite. With the blessing of the tone, it maintains a clean and silent beauty, and the characters' personalities also fit the style and form a unity. The effects of tension and warming, but seasoning, are not enough to change the overall environment and the outcome that is headed. Sometimes the shades are too thick, beyond the original color, which I don't like and deviate from nature. The plot is flat and straightforward, the rhythm is slow, the characters are the core, the series is more realistic, but I am not sure if this can be called an advantage. In my personal opinion, this is a more ordinary and straightforward way of narration, and the content of the film shows is more realistic, lacking drama and creativity, monotonous and boring. In reality, everything seems to be within the foreseeable future, and family ethics dramas can highlight the truth and have a sense of substitution. However, the contradictions between characters seem to be too metaphorical under the collision of emotions, and there is less direct disclosure. There are some violations in front of the sense of reality, and the absolute restraint of emotions will lack authenticity. Character shaping and conflict, explore the relationship between people, and rise to life and death. I think the family relationship in this film, the family relationship between father and son, is only manifested in very rare times. More often, the father does not show his emotions, and almost completely replaces it with power, just a relationship of order and obedience. From the son's point of view, Andrei and Ivan have two completely different external expressions, but in essence, they both long for a relaxed relationship with their father, or to get their father's emotions. I think Ivan The verbal and physical confrontation was a resistance to his father's oppressive orders, not his father's personal and emotional resistance. He did not reject his father's sudden return to the family, and cooperated with Andrei and his father agreed to all travels, Getting along too directly, and suddenly appearing after 12 years of absence, this sense of contrast cannot be made up by forcible means, which is also one of the contradictions shown in the film. When death comes, the feelings of struggle are calmed down, and the real family love is bursting out. The film does not teach people how to get along, but calmly looks at the contradiction. Someone has to pay for it, and then someone will change. In the second half of the movie, Ivan's eyes showed a gloomy feeling. Is this the presentation of his own character? Maybe it was formed gradually after my father left for more than ten years.

The expression of life and death, what is return, return to life, return to nature.

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The Return quotes

  • [first lines]

    [on-screen caption: Sunday]

    [boy falls in the water, then floats up]

    Zavodila: Jump as we agreed! Who climbs down the ladder is a cowardly wanker.

    [swims to the shore]

    Boy on Tower: Go on, Vityok. You're next.

  • [last lines]

    Ivan: Look...

    [shows a photo to Andrey]

    Andrey: Hide it.

    [Ivan puts the photo back]

    Ivan: Andrey, my feet are wet.

    Andrey: Take your shoes off.