"Ballet in the Fire of War": Hundred Steels of War And Dancing Around the Fingers

Text/MuYi Xiao Dun

This year is unusual, everywhere can see traces of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, there is news that during the period of parcel mail into Beijing must go through the machine security check, and the people of the whole country will also enjoy a three-day long holiday. All of this is because we really shouldn't forget those hard times, and there is nothing more contagious about commemoration than images, so this is also a good opportunity for filmmakers to show their fists.

In "Ballet in the Fire of War", the Russian soldier and the Chinese girl formed a ballet love affair in the anti-Japanese flames, and the film tells a poignant love affair that crosses national borders, exposes the ferocity and hypocrisy, stubbornness and treachery of Japanese militarism, and shows the fighting friendship between the military and the people of China and Russia who share hardships and hardships and work together to resist fascist aggression. If you want to say that this movie is not the main theme, it is certainly true, but this is a main theme movie with attitude, texture, big feelings, and small emotions.

First of all, the main creative team behind the film has already let people see the texture of the film. The film's director is Nikita Mikhalkov, known as the "Russian Spielberg", whose "Mongolian Spirit" won the 1991 Venice Golden Lion Award, the European Film Award for Best Picture, and "The Scorching Sun" won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film... With Mikhalkov escorting, the quality of the film can be seen. Director Dong Yachun has become famous for filming films such as "Breaking Out of the Amazon" and "Shocking Waves", and his profound photography skills are vividly displayed in "Ballet in the Fire of War".

"Ballet in Flames" runs through the perspective of the oral memories of the elderly heroine, adding more authenticity to the story. The film itself is adapted from real events, so the audience inevitably has a sense of "step by step" tension when watching the movie. The battle in which the male protagonist died is known as the "last battle" in the black land in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Because this battle took place on September 12, 1945, 28 days after Japan announced its surrender, although the director did not pay much attention to the frontal battlefield, through the good times of temporary calm, it reflected the cruelty of the war.

"Ballet in the Fire of War" is tense and moderate, and the war drama is just right, neither reduced to an empty account of shouting slogans, nor is it caught in the trap of Qingqing and me. There is a scene in the film where the heroine fantasizes about dancing in the birch forest in a red dress and dancing ballet. The male protagonist who has just finished the battle lies on a hanging chair and watches the beautiful girl in front of him dance in the afterglow of the sunset, and the tones, scenes, and emotions are just right to make people feel excited. And this scene is also a rare warm color in the whole film, which is not only a sublimation of the love of the male and female protagonists, but also a sharp contrast with the upcoming final battle.

Someone's youth happens on campus, someone's youth happens in the office... And some people's youth remained in the smoke of war. The bearded male protagonist Kaleskov Igor looks like a burst of looks, and the heroine Cao Shuci who wears dancing shoes dances, on the one hand, for the country, for the family, for love and desperate for the hundred refined steel, on the other hand is the young girl Huaichun, the love sinus is just opening but has a special love for ballet around the finger gentleness ... Although their love is buried in the black earth, their attachment to love is always kept in mind.