That's what a truly "epic" film should look like - with unparalleled lines, Tolstoy's poignant story, and terrific visuals that are still shocking today, fifty years later
The four parts of the film have their own focuses: the first part focuses on depicting Prince Andrew's vanity and his pursuit of the meaning of life; the second part focuses on Natasha and Andre's love, depicting Natasha The story of Tasha's transformation from a simple and innocent girl to a betrayal is full of nostalgia for the precious but easily lost feelings between people; the third part does not directly show the process of war, but uses The pictures of the soldiers that are constantly flashing show the courage of the Russian soldiers and their anger at the cruelty of the war; the last part uses Pierre's personal experience to show the misery of the lower classes after the Napoleonic Wars, full of contempt for the Napoleonic Wars and yearning for peace. Although the plot is not coherent, it fascinates us because of the profound intention of the ontology
The scene is completely the pinnacle of film history. Not only did he dare to shoot a big scene under the premise that the technology was not advanced at the time, but he really did it. This is indeed what the director is good at. In the 1960s, aerial photography was used. In the absence of any special effects, thousands of actors were actually called to shoot the war, and real guns and live ammunition were used, just to express the grandeur of the Napoleonic Wars.
I have to sigh that a country like the Soviet Union, which is even more revolutionary than China 50 years ago, is only closed to the outside world in terms of personal freedom and foreign policy, but in terms of its own profound culture, it has not destroyed it at all, but has done nothing to gain the whole country. The power to carry forward the culture
The one-star buckle is too loose in the structure of this film, and when it is viewed as an independent film, it is basically incomprehensible. It has been supporting the story with various vague flashing pictures and few lines.
But the director is just a director after all, and he is incomparable with Tolstoy. We can only admire that he has realized that he can't show the real "War and Peace" in only 5 hours, so he made the film as A "prose", jumping in the grand wars and splendid dances, like a poem, you can't understand what he means, but you can feel the impact of it.
For such an excellent masterpiece, what else can we do?
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