This is the tragedy of a man blinded by the ruthless sun, a fable that all people are burned by the poisonous sun of revolution and dictatorship, and all people lose their faith and vision in absolute light. Under this sun, the people have a unified slogan, thinking and struggle, shouting in an orderly manner, charging toward the set goal, and voluntarily giving up everything they have in order to establish a thousand-year kingdom utopia on the earth. Life and dignity are the most important. At the very least, they have to serve as shameless cannon fodder and abominable negative teaching materials. Ordinary people will no longer have the sentiment of the past life, radicals will no longer have sorrowful feelings, and there will no longer be Natasha by Chaoxia Lake. There will never be real closeness anymore. The Bolsheviks are as difficult to build as the Sky Tower, requiring continuous dedication and sacrifice. In the course of this experiment, the most difficult problem to solve is not the enthusiasm of the people, but the inability to have the slightest doubt about the supreme leader. All setbacks are caused by the destruction of the enemy. Where the enemy is, the enemy must be eliminated among "us". Naturally, this is the final judgment and there is no opportunity for appeal. The cruelest thing is that this is like a perpetual motion machine cycle.
Perhaps, for most Russians, the tyranny of Stalin's period was an unsmooth wound, an unbearable past, because it was too much pain and helplessness. The movie "Scorching Sun" has objectively and sharply examined that cruel history. The purpose is to remind people that the entire nation cannot repeat the suffering, so that more people can remember the era when they were burned by the sun. Many scenes and props in the film have profound meanings: the dangerous broken glass by the river and the military exercises during holidays imply that there is an undercurrent surging in the peace of the country, and the driver who has always been strayed in place is obviously right at the time. The metaphor of centralized control in the former Soviet Union; Stalin’s huge portrait rose in the sky. This lens reveals the background of the times. The portrait seems to be a dictatorship. People must salute it, right or wrong. In order to contrast the cruel theme, the film has a lot of poetic and idyllic scenery. Perhaps only this harmonious and weeping contrast can more appropriately show the vicious sun.
Stalin era (partially related)
In 1918, the Russian Civil War broke out. Stalin, Trotsky and others were elected to the five-member presidium formed by Lenin. In May of the same year, he was sent to Tsaritsyn to collect grain. With the support of Voroshilov, Budjoni and others, he strengthened his influence in the army. During this period, Stalin repeatedly defied the resolutions of Trotsky, chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee at the time, and executed many officers and "counter-revolutionaries" in the Red Army who had served in the Tsarist era. In order to collect grain, he also used the method of burning villages to force farmers to obey and prevent the food supply from being looted by robbers. In the end, the Red Army won the battle of Tsaritsyn, and at the same time he also established a political cooperative relationship with the soldiers of the First Cavalry Army. After Stalin took power, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad (renamed Volgograd in 1961). Stalin was transferred back to Moscow in early 1919, and he married Nadezhda Aliluyeva on March 24. In May, he was sent to the western front near Petrograd, during which he severely executed the fugitives in the Red Army as traitors.
The Great Purge (Russian: Большая чистка, English: Great Purge) refers to a political repression and persecution that broke out in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It includes the cleansing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the persecution of innocent people. Typical phenomena of this period include ubiquitous political censorship, suspected "spy sabotage" everywhere, public trial for show, imprisonment, and death penalty.
In the Soviet Union, the term "suppression" was officially used to denote the persecution of people who were considered counter-revolutionaries or enemies of the people. One of the purposes of the Great Purge was to remove the opposition from the Communist Party. It is generally believed that its ultimate goal is to consolidate Stalin's authority. At the same time, a series of persecution campaigns were carried out in society against people who were believed to be or accused of opposing the policies of the Soviet state and the Communist Party for backward or secret political purposes.
The official interpretation of the series of purges as the elimination of potential saboteurs and spies was based on the expected war between the Soviet Union and Germany at the time. The public's attention is mainly focused on the purge of the Communist Party leadership itself, government officials and the leaders of the Soviet Red Army. Most of these people are party members.
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