People who live in history will have limitations in seeing the world, and "The Horse Pole" may be too. The year 1991 was a year of great shock to the Soviet Union and the world. There are too many confusions and contradictions in the movie, both from the movie and from the director.
Maybe the director found Mongolia because it used to be a huge and powerful empire, but will today's Mongolia be Russia's tomorrow? But for modernization or the development of the times, no one can stop it. Even if you miss it, you can't get it back.
The montage style of the Soviet director is fully reflected in this film. Sergey, who pushed open the door of the ballroom, saw a dilapidated home.
At the beginning of the film, close-ups and big vistas appear alternately, placing real people in a huge wilderness, which is beautiful.
The dream of meeting Temujin is also very beautiful, but in my opinion, it is not as good as the scene that passed through the TV later.
My favorite character in it is Bayatu with a red umbrella. Is he a portrait of today's Mongolians? Or is it not just the Mongols, but all those who are frustrated, who have lost their spiritual world? Wandering in the wilderness...a very magical character!
The ending is the most interesting, it's like a flashback. And the TV clearly shows Gorbachev and Bush Sr.... Then, the final narrator is the child who has not yet been born, at some point in the future. The director probably hopes that people will remember the year 1991 in the future.

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Colt 2022-02-25 08:02:45

Realistic and romantic, what's missing...
Thaddeus 2022-04-20 09:02:34

About the identity of the ethnic group, the division of the country, and the inexorable coming of the times, they all talk about God with an ending without dialogue: on the way home, sitting on the grass and dreaming: Genghis Khan asked him where he was as a Mongolian horse and weapon? He looked back at the bicycle and TV that he had just bought, and was ordered to use a horse to be put to death... He woke up with a prairie and a rainbow, and he hurried home to put on the TV, and the broadcast was incomprehensible Current affairs and politics, with tears in his eyes, his wife asked him why he didn't buy a condom, and the old mother squeezed a bubble pad. Suddenly on the screen, his wife rode out on a horse, he hurried to catch up, put a horse pole on the grassland, they mate in the most primitive Mongolian way, and I was born, named Temujin. That horse pole turned into a big chimney over the years, and I worked in it. This is the end of the story. After the split, the souls of the Soviets were two dollars a piece, while the souls of the Mongolians lost the grassland forever. What a great movie!