One of the most important movies I've seen in the past two years. I read it twice for this. Watched it for the first time without doing any homework on the background in the film.
I am completely convinced by the production of the film: the brutal and realistic killing, the compositional photography that is close to oil painting, the poetic soundtrack, and the obedience presented in order to restore the history to the greatest extent, there are almost no flaws. (Of course, there are still many bugs to find faults).
In terms of story: A lot of metaphorical comparisons are used to make the suffering of the heroine in the second half of the film even heavier, and it also enhances the drama of her constantly escaping danger and turning disaster into good fortune. Follow through. Through the semi-open ending, the suffering is sublimated into poetry - in desperation, what else can you do, only to dream of returning to your hometown and wishing for a peaceful life - perhaps only death is better than the purgatory-like world. How desperate.
I doubt whether the traditional Polish customs and games used in the film to compare bloody killings really exist or are the director's own creation to echo the foreshadowing.
Such as Polish marriage custom: use an ax to chop off the braid of the married sister on the threshold of one's own house (it seems to be the same as the marriage custom in some places in China), which indicates that the parents will be affected by the skin, and don't forget the meaning of the parents' kinship when you get married. The head of the elder sister was cut off with an axe on the threshold of her husband's house. Similar contrasts abound. Usually, when ethnic groups live in harmony, the joy and joy of traditional weddings are used to set off the madness and blood of genocide orgy. , which is a vertical comparison. There are also rampant contrasts, such as when ethnic hatred is under the brilliance of religion and under the deliberate exaggeration of both sides, different ethnic groups, languages, and ideologies have the same hatred and cruel and fanatical distortion of human nature.
During World War II, wherever the German war machine went, it would always lead to a series of ethnic divisions and even massacres, which led to the formation of various groups with opposing interests in the region. For example, Ukraine and Poland in the film are both Slavic-speaking groups. Originally, they lived in harmony on this land, but when the Nazi cavalry approached here, due to their different positions and camps, it was very easy for people who were separated from each other to have gaps in their hearts, so they were driven out and turned against each other. Often big historical decisions would be accompanied by A crisis of national identity occurs, like the dirt and gravel raised by the crawler belt of a torrent of steel in war.
I don't know if Ukraine and Poland, both of which are currently in the Western camp, have put aside their past grudges and reunited, but when Poland revisits this history, how will it feel?
In any case, once the evil in human nature is released, it will not take into account any nationality, political party or religion, far from the wiping out of Lidice, the purge of Turkey and Armenia, the purge of the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, and into Nanjing, where we are always with us. Holocausts, these kinds of inhuman slaughter and extermination are always accompanied by a frenzied unleashing of collective evil.
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