A movie with a strong realism style, based on the life experience of a 16-year-old girl, through ordeals, presents the humanistic landscape of the Russian minorities after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Cold streets, cold buildings, cold people, cold feelings, every scene in the lens is cold. Many hand-cranked lenses, some varying focal lengths, until close-ups of the characters' faces, these directors have tried to deal with such a story tortured by life in a calm way.
I can imagine Lilia, appearing as a wounded kitten, quietly passing through dark gates, coming to the window, bending down, until an elegant arc, carefully licking her wounds. Staying before my eyes is a beautiful silhouette.
A thick sorrow overflowed all. In the early autumn outside the window, the tail of summer remains, and the sad city has the same sky. Angel Lilia and his companion Voroya once looked up at this sky so that they could escape the pain. They naively thought that there was another piece of sky on another piece of land, no gray, no rain.
From being abandoned by her mother to save Voroya, and to live with Voroya, to abandoning Voroya, this series of ingenious plot arrangements made Lilia's despair and hatred of the entire society, and also reflected the whole society. The world is cold. The director Lucas used a sharp sword to accurately pierce the heart of the black hole in Russian society.
There is a paradise in Lilia's heart, and that is America. After a long period of torture, Lilia realized that she would never escape the painful fate, when she saw the angel give her a Christmas gift "America", there was no trace of joy in her pupils.
"It's very windy, foggy, and cold. It's not good at all here."
Lilia and Voroya are given the image of angels. In fact, the movie has already explained that the religious oil paintings that Lilia has always carried with her are for Lilia. A hint of the relationship between the two characters with Voroya.
Voroya waited beside Lilia after becoming an angel. Such surreal techniques are rarely seen in realist movies. These "angels" that appeared at Lilia's desperate moment can be interpreted as Lilia's optimistic attitude towards life. Every time, these optimistic ideas have survived one difficulty. The Voroya angel in his heart is protecting himself.
Voroya, who became an angel, said to Lilia: "You can die forever, but you can only live for a short time." At
first, the difference between her and Voroya is that Lilia yearns for survival, while Voroya yearns for death. , Life can only continue when the two abandoned people depend on each other and become support points for each other. Lilia's departure disrupted the balance, so Voroya chose to die without hesitation.
In the end, Lilia also chose to die, just after she smashed the "painting of vision". After Lilia escaped from the pain, she realized that she didn't know where to go. When she saw death, she felt that she had found her true home.
The two angels left there forever, and behind them was a sin city that was about to sink.
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