"Goose Flying to the South Летят журавли" (1957)-the geese are gray in the clouds, and the people lie down in the forest

Opal 2022-01-18 08:01:23

"Goose Nanfei Летят журавли" (1957)-The geese are gray and white in the clouds, and people are lying in the woods.

This film is obviously much better than "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears", which is like a running account many years later, and "Moscow Doesn't Believe" No matter how bad it is, "Tears" is much better than the contemporary Russian Federation films that rely solely on aesthetic pictures and exquisite service.

God-level use of light and mirrors, exquisite tone and composition, and wonderful use of montage... aside from the simple plot, just rely on the outstanding image style and lens language to make this movie every The frames are worth pausing and savoring.

Let's first count the high-frequency images: steel cross fortifications, twice; shaking lampshades, three times; revolving stairs, three times.

The film starts with a long shot and talks about the life of Soviet minorities.
The two protagonists jumped from the river bank to the square, were driven home by a water jet, and then chased them on the rotating staircase (1) to go home. The three pictures are exquisitely composed and almost correspond to Bresson’s most famous Three photos. The girl stepped on her lover's chest with sharp high heels unscrupulously.
The protagonist, Boris, ignores the green hormones and the beautiful scenery flying under the long skirt, which is ready to come out of the full breasts, and just looks into her eyes and tells her: You have won. you win.
So she repeated happily: I won. I won. I won—then you kiss me.
The light on the faces of the characters in this film is always dynamic-the sunlight coming in through the windows flows slowly.
Then the hostess closed the window and let him run to the front.

The fortifications made of crossed steel bars resemble dumped crosses, laying out the streets of Moscow like huge cemeteries. As mentioned earlier, it appeared twice. The first time it was the lover, there was no news, and the heroine and mother walked through it lonely. The second time was the death of his parents, and the cousin of the heroine and the heroine passed by. Twice, each time seemed to be an endorsement of all the good things negated and subverted by the war.

I don't know if it is a product of the planned economy. All the swaying lampshades are the same style and appeared three times in total. For the first time, when encountering an air attack, the heroine hurriedly climbed up the collapsed spiral staircase, one after another, one after another... At the end of the staircase was the flying roof, the still swinging bell and the shaking lampshade. . The heroine is at the bottom right of the screen, the dark lampshade is at the top left, and the ruins of Moscow and the pale sky are in the middle. The second time was in the white night illuminated by the bombing fire, the lampshade shook with the frantic music of the cousin and the twisted curtains. The sharp rays of light here flashed rapidly on the face of the heroine, unable to distinguish the boundary between fear and lust. The frightened and helpless female protagonist whose parents have both died, unable to face the dying life, knowing that she is in danger, she can only hug the only man next to her. For the third time, the hostess caught the only token left by the lover at the gathering of the moths in the rear and threw the only token left by the lover to the social flower as a souvenir, and then turned out the letter hidden inside. As the background of the utterly depressed voice, Boris's hoarse and low voice read the farewell letter. Infinite love, faith and hope. The hostess's angry slap spread to the hanging lamp, and she turned and left. Three times, each time symbolizes the disintegration and broken life of the heroine.

It seems that Russian directors understand how to use Russian actors, just as only Russian directors understand how to use crude and unique Russian optical equipment: if the Russian-made (broken) lens flies in high light, shoot the wild goose against the low sky of the northern continent; If the heroine has princess Hepburn's eyebrows, use the roughness of life in wartime to make her more like a Slavic woman; if the heroine has a thin face (just like a volume blessing) and shining passionate eyes, let him Bloodstained and killed on the battlefield.

With a dying look, dark clouds cover the moon, and there are no wild geese in the sky of war.

The whirling birch forest turned into a spiral staircase that had collapsed in the heroine's house. The man in a suit and leather shoes is chasing the woman in a wedding dress. It is not as beautiful as the light in the world flowing softly on the face of the heroine. The spiraling stairs, the third and last time.

In addition to the splendor of the picture, the characters in this simple story are also unexpectedly subtle and three-dimensional.

For example, when the heroine was waiting for news, she was expressionless but nervously told herself that she would receive a letter from the hero after counting to fifty.
For example, she told her husband in her neighbor Boris gave her little squirrel get there socialite, she speaks incoherently: "I have a husband, my lover, you know that old maid ass ......"
For example, she Self-condemnation is like the unsolvable question asked by the history teacher—the answer that the history teacher failed to answer, maybe history can't answer it either.
For example, when she was stimulated in the hospital and finally couldn't bear the self-defeating, she hurriedly ran in the snow, the fence galloped past, and the camera tilted like a mountain and fell apart. She raced with the train, black smoke rushed into the sky, and the blue sky was obscured by the steel network. She rushed into the steam, covered her face in pain, and stretched her hands forward. For a moment, I thought she was going to be tortured to commit suicide, and wanted to end her life with a speeding black train like Anna Karenina. It's me... But this last crazy montage came to an abrupt end, and she finally achieved self-salvation by saving others.
She hugged her child on the road wrapped in the black sky, black river, and black smoke, like a lamp, and returned from walking on the snow with her head down. A face of maternal ecstasy-the rescued reincarnation lover, and the stolen kinship, finally redeemed this fragmented woman.

As for the ending of the movie, I won’t go into details, but just take the lines directly:

“The war is over, it’s weird.” The hostess huddled in the crowd holding flowers while raising her head and crying.

“One day, we will rebuild the city. With the countryside, we heal the wounds in our hearts, but we will never forget our deep hatred of war. We deeply understand the deep pain of not being able to see relatives here today, so that the waiting girls will no longer lose their fiancés and make those The mother no longer worries about the lives of the children, so that the strong and victorious father no longer secretly shed tears. We are victorious. We want to live, but not to destroy, but to rebuild our lives." Speech in the car.

"Look, the geese in the Moscow sky." Boris' father pointed to the sky.


The geese travel nine days in the clouds, and they can still be divided into gray and white.

If the wild goose is not returned, it is better to plant flowers on the tomb soil.
"Whoever wants flowers, go and share them with them."

In addition, the actor with amorous eyes is called Alexei Batalov. The old man passed away this summer. These few words are also dedicated to him.

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Extended Reading
  • Shana 2022-04-21 09:03:04

    very beautiful. Some ideological things are too crude. Both sides of the war will believe that they are fighting for justice. Even in World War II, most wars are just stupid carnivals, the smart people stay and the stupid people go to the battlefield. I can understand that some people's personalities are inclined during the war, but I can't understand that some young people get excited when they hear the war. Perhaps most of the time it is not that we choose war, but war chooses us, we just fight for peace.

  • Josephine 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    The beautiful contrast of light and shadow, the excellent use of lens (overprint lens, long lens, lift lens, scene, composition, etc.), wonderful scene scheduling, even the heroine's performance is also moving, waiting is sad and Hope, there is a strength when you are sad.

The Cranes Are Flying quotes

  • [first lines]

    Boris: Wait, squirrel! Here. Put it on.

  • Fyodor Ivanovich: Stop it this minute! You're a still a soldier in the Red Army! Are you trying to get discharged? Are you afraid we'll heal your hands and send you back to the front?

    A patient in the infirmary: No, Doctor, he's not like that. He got a letter.

    Fyodor Ivanovich: I know. That's just an excuse. Big deal! So your bride ran off. You should be glad! She isn't worth a penny if she would trade a handsome guy like you, a real hero, for some rat sitting out the war at home! It's she who's forfeit her happiness, not you! And that's what she deserves. She's got a petty soul. People like her can't understand how much suffering we've gone through. You stood up to death itself. You looked death in the face. You approached it with your chest stuck out. And she couldn't even pass the little test of time. Woman like her deserve only your contempt. There can be no forgiveness for them!