One of the classic war films in film history, from the former Soviet Union.

Andrei Tarkovsky, a well-known name for every movie fan, is a well-deserved master in film history and a representative figure of Soviet poetic films. At present, he is also one of the few directors whose works are above 8 points on Douban.

This director, who is affectionately called "Old Tower" by fans, has made contributions to the film. He has created a brand-new language that is more faithful to the film itself, so that the heavy theme that touches people's hearts flows slowly in his poetic film narrative style.

What I want to talk about here is his debut, the transition from realism to lyricism in Soviet movies, and Ivan's childhood.

The film won the Golden Lion Award at the 27th Venice Film Festival, and it is a work gradually forming a tower film style.

What would it be like to make a war movie beautiful and poetic, but at the same time cruel? He's like Ivan's childhood.

The beginning of the film is a dream of Ivan, in which his mother is still alive. At that time, Ivan, who was still naive, was wandering in the mountains and saw his mother carrying a well water. He ran over and gulped down the water in the bucket.

When Ivan woke up, he was wearing shabby clothes, his face was covered with gray dust, and his green face was replaced by maturity and perseverance.

He ran out of the shelter carefully and swam across the river.

Later, Ivan was captured by Soviet soldiers. Through the communication with the senior team leader, we learned that Ivan, who is young, has become a scout because of his small size and convenient movement, and has just come from the other side occupied by the German army.

Ivan got in touch with the colonel and showed his identity. The colonel sent Captain Colin to meet him.

In the evening, Ivan dreamed of his mother again. He and his mother are looking at a well. Her mother said that when the well is deep enough, you can see stars in the daytime. Ivan went to the well to catch the stars, but there was a gunshot from the well, and then Ivan's mother fell down.

Dream interpolation is Lao Ta's favorite form of expression in movies, either explaining the plot or expressing the inner world of the characters, and approaching the characters to understand in a dream way.

The colonel thinks Ivan is still young, thinks that war is not a child's business, and insists that Ivan study in the front and rear. Ivan refused to go out without results.

Ivan saw an old man with a broken family. The war destroyed his house and took away his relatives. He took the photo album and said that he would repair the house until his wife came back. The film once again focuses on the trauma of war to every ordinary civilian.

Ivan who escaped was found by the colonel and brought back. After many entreaties, Captain Colin promised to let him take part in the next investigation.

Ivan stayed alone in the room. In the darkness, he seemed to see those relatives and partners who died tragically. Revenge for them is Ivan's only idea.

After having dinner with the captain and lieutenant, Ivan lay on the ground and looked at the ceiling on the eve of the operation. He fell asleep and dreamed of his sister.

One rainy night, he and his sister were sitting in a truck full of apples, all wet, but with a happy smile on their faces. Then the truck drove past the river and dropped the apple all over the floor, and all the horses next to it came to chew it.

Late at night, the action began. Captain Colin and the senior captain escorted Ivan to the other side by boat. In the dark, the trees swaying by the river, the sound of flares and bullets came and went, and Ivan rushed into the enemy-occupied area without hesitation.

Then the picture changed, the war was won, and I saw Ivan's news again, in a German prison. Finally, the film reviews Ivan's appearance when he was about to die of sound.

At the end, the film traces back to Ivan's past. He drinks water from his mother's bucket and plays hide-and-seek with his sister. The two of them are running happily on the beach.

Even if the story ends here, it is a very simple story, but in the hands of the old tower, he still played tricks.

I have never seen such a beautiful and cruel film. What makes it beautiful?

Because in this film, we can see Lao Ta's humanistic care for everyone in the war. His use of shocking photography and music, clever use of images and exploration of dreams and characters' hearts in the film also endows the film with a poetic hazy beauty. At this time, although the tower membrane is not fully formed, it has begun to take shape.

At all times and in all countries, poems like to make themselves more beautiful with intentions, and so do poetic films.

The intention of water appears many times in the film. Ivan drinks his mother's water, gets wet in the car with his sister or plays by the sea ... This is the most ingenious use of images in the film. Lauta compares war to fire in the film. What Ivan needs most in the war is water.

Lauta hoped to calm Ivan down with water, but unfortunately, he finally fell into the abyss of war, and death was his destination. This is certainly not his best destination, but I think it will be hard for him to forgive himself as long as Ivan is alive. He will keep fighting, hoping that Ivan will see his mother and sister after he dies.

In the movie, the colonel was right. War does not belong to a child, but it destroyed his family and his paradise. From then on, he planted a dream of revenge in his heart, and only in the battle can he get peace and comfort.

A war has changed a teenager and made him mature. He doesn't belong here. Isn't this cruel?

This war has turned Ivan into a soldier, so that lonely old people can no longer wait for their wives and people who love each other can't be together.

But in this war, we can still see the kindness of human nature, which is manifested in Ivan's sending food to the elderly who lost their families, and in the care of the elders in the military camp who regard Ivan as their own son. In the war, we can see all kinds of life.

We need war movies, because we can't forget the pain caused by those wars. It always reminds us that war should never be publicized, it is not good, it is just a disaster.