The characters in "Living" are even smaller, and the film expresses emotional intentions in a casual way-plain narrative, subtraction of characters, changes in the world... It can be said that the director did not use any very "inspired" and "creative" methods to go. Render the character's feelings-the story is well told, and the events are arranged and beautiful.
At this point, "Scorching Sun" is quite different. Nikita Mikhalkov, also a director with a strong sense of history, did not use third-party films such as "Alive" (not to say that such films have no historical comments, these comments are extremely implicit and self-explanatory. )——An extreme form of spectator narrative; nor did it adopt the combat-style propaganda expression with a clear historical view of the old film. The overall appearance of Mikhalkov's film is smooth-the director is like sitting behind a projector quietly observing his thoughts, the ups and downs of the characters and the audience in it. "Alive" films describe the multiple intersections of the fate of the characters, and Mikhalkov's focus in this film is to express the fate of the characters multiple times in a relatively static period of time (here is a day), in this "crossing" Mikhalkov is very positive about the emotion of the time and the emotional tone of the whole film. For this, he adopted a poetic image-the scorching sun.
When such a low-tech "little sun" (fireball), which was obviously made by directly patching the film in the later stage, appeared on the lake with the sound of huhu, and Mitia told her own story about the past, I even I think this is a bit too abrupt, especially when compared with the realistic depiction in the previous paragraph, it shows a little disharmony. But when the fireball enters the next shot-the birch forest where they played together as a child-we know: the fireball is constantly moving, in the same direction, it seems to move purposefully, and then he is actually There was a pause at the door of the house, and then it broke into it in a "freak" and a little bit "destroyed"--wandering around in the memory at a loss, as if looking for something, but it didn't get what it wanted--perhaps it had never thought about it. What to regain. When the glass of the photo frame shattered in the suppression of baking, it quietly left, without taking away anything, but leaving behind a lot-like it left many times before.
Mitia was still telling the story slowly, but he knew the story was not over. But the important thing is that the heavy emotion in the heart hasn't disappeared because of his return, and the story made up only aggravates the emotion of the memory. It was like the resentment in Mitia's heart. He concentrated this resentment on whatever things he grabbed, waved, and yelled, but found that even though he had returned to the old place where he was dreaming and daring not to return, this The resentment is still unable to be dispatched: the lover who cut his wrist now has a happy family. Everyone wears white dresses and dances and sings all day long. They are happy all day in the "big hot air balloon" (the residents in the film build " The "Stalin" hot air balloon incident runs through the shadows. Mitia would naturally ponder silently: Why is all this? What made him have nothing? And when the gloomy life of this family calmed him a little bit, he looked up at the sky and suddenly found the answer. As a result, the things in his hands did not fall to the ground happily, but were placed securely on the side of the table at hand-but the helpless forehead was pressed heavily against the wall.
But these violent collision actions are not what we saw in the film, all of which are hidden in the montage of the little sun. Of course, the little sun left the big house, but it did not disappear either. Instead, it crashed into the forest and burned a tree... "The secret and motivation are far more complicated than "crazy") Seeing here, we are still not sure what the "answer" is-we can only guess. This kind of concealment is exactly in line with a kind of poetry.
As a vehicle or image, the scorching sun usually expresses objects such as fierceness, enthusiasm, persistence, madness, mania, or power, but the "little sun" of this film is not like that. It combines these. Like the title, it expresses a kind of depression. In the eyes of people who seek happiness, the sun is fierce, persistent, fierce and youthful love, but when there is a bigger sun as a power to burn these people who are seeking a happy life-this kind of "repressive" situation Forcing the "blazing" into a kind of "manic", the "manic" little sun turned into the "depression" in the film after years of erosion. All in all, Little Sun plays different roles at certain points in the film at the same time, telling the stories of the characters in the film from different historical periods, which is also a kind of poetry.
When Mitia told the fairy tale that he made up, we obviously felt that the little sun represented his depression and helplessness. In fact, at this time, didn't Kotov and Marusa carry the little sun? When Kotov, who was sitting in the middle of the political police with blood on his face, burst into tears, we knew that the scorching sun also expressed his helplessness and pain; when the ending of Marousa and Nadia was printed on the subtitles, We also understand that the scorching sun is also scorching them! When we look back at the parade in which the young pioneers held the statue of Stalin in the film, the scene where the residents built Stalin balloons with great enthusiasm, and even Nadia dressed herself up and sang the song, we knew their Little Sun may be "hot", warm, and affectionate, but when they become "story" or "story" people? We suddenly remembered the band and the little girl who sang "Boiled by the Sun" in the beginning of the movie, and the couple who danced in the song... We also understand-people in this cold country are all affected Roasting, feeling the helplessness and depression!
The film ends with Mitia's suicide by cutting her wrists, and the little sun goes out outside the window-I always feel that this ending is too flat. But on the other hand, "extinguishing" does not mean the quietness of the soul. "Extinguishing" just more presents the "depression" that has been emphasized-the sun as a burning depression does not end in the form of full catharsis such as an explosion. But just-"Extinguish". The Stalin balloon hung in the air like a ghost, underneath it were painful and addicted people...
Fortunately, we still remember the song of seeing off the family. "The morning bell rang, so many memories, my heart said: when we were young, our land, our hometown, my love stayed there, when we said goodbye, the bell was still ringing... the twilight bell The sound...time has not brought misfortune, the spring spent in misunderstandings will pass forever..." This seems to be the director's purpose to stay here to appease us.
All these are not directly expressed in the film, but they are also contained in the image of the little sun, which is poetry. I haven't seen any poem that uses the "sun" to represent the image of "depression", but Mikhalkov did it!
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