The film starts and ends with the dream of a young Ivan. Ivan's four dreams have a common theme, which is the description of the happy time in the peaceful years, the description of the smile of the mother and sister, although the dream is also in black and white. The camera records, but the dream camera uses brighter lighting to give the black and white picture a bright color sense, alluding to Ivan's happy mood in the dream.
In the first two dreams about his mother, Ivan's happiness with his mother was interrupted by the sound of gunfire, and the mother fell to the ground, suggesting that Ivan and his mother were separated in the war. In the latter two dreams about my sister, the beauty of the dreams surpasses the real feelings of reality. The apple cart in the rainstorm, the free horse on the beach, the game of hide and seek and the pictures of running along the coast are all peaceful and beautiful. as a contrast to the reality of war.
The film depicts the emotions between military doctor Martha and Lieutenant Goxon and Captain Kochlin in a meticulous and vivid way. The urgency, cruelty and grim situation of the war determine that any emotions unrelated to the war will be suppressed and strangled. Gokson and Kochlin both have admiration for Martha, and the two people with different personalities adopt different expressions. Gokson and Martha are directly subordinate to Martha, and his conversation with Martha revolves around Serious work issues, but from the look he looks away from when he talks to Martha, from the look he chases when he learns that Kochlin and Martha are talking in the birch woods, it's easy to spot a young man in front of a woman he loves. Tension and restraint, he moved Martha off the front lines out of concern for her protection.
In contrast to Goxon's veiledness, Kochlin is blunt and forceful about his feelings for Martha, expressing his feelings with hugs and kisses, asking about Martha's conversation with the soldier with glasses, giving Martha Sarah plays music and writes poetry. On the surface, it seems that Masha's departure interrupted his poetry, but in fact it was the severe war that interrupted the expression of his feelings. The smoke of war did not allow any bud of love to bloom.
Martha's emotional tendencies are as deeply buried as Goxon's. In the film's performance, Martha talks to Goxon for the first time, and her hesitation is a manifestation of the uncertainty of her inner emotions. When she faced Kochlin's strong confession, her uncertainty and hesitation continued, but the discomfort caused by Kochlin's hugs and kisses gave her a definite answer, and she clarified her heart Love. In the film, the sound of Masha's running breath and Gokson's running breath are connected together. This editing method of sharing the sound space implies that the two people are sharing the spiritual space. The two people are in love with each other and restrain each other . When Martha met an old friend, her eyes followed Goxon unconsciously, and her intentions were undoubtedly revealed in the following eyes.
The film is also remarkable in expanding the meaning space of the picture by using the editing of sound and picture alignment. At the beginning of the film, the voiceover superimposed when Ivan writes the letter is the footsteps of the army. At the end of the film, Gokson walks into the German concentration camp where the prisoners were held and executed. The voice-over sounded the dialogue of the German army when the prisoners were executed. The voice-over here implies the real historical reality and the painful imagination of Gokson. .
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