Sunday, January 16, 2011
Burnt by the Sun
Burnt by the Sun is a film made in 1994 that shows the tragic side of life in the 1930's. During this time there was lots of fear and terror because people where being arrested and killed for little to no reason. This as happening because Stalin was trying to keep power by putting fear into people who would oppose him.In the movie there is a fire ball that appears at different times in the movie. The ball appeared when something bad was happening or going to happen. This fireball represents people getting burned by the sun, hence the title. Kotov and Chapaev are both similar a different. They both are military leaders and have strong opinions of politics. Kotov differs from Chapaev because Kotov doesn't go out of control like Chapaev does and he actually seems to understand politics. Mitya was a very different character in the movie. He clowns around but has a hidden agenda. He knows that he has to kill Kotov but doesn't want the others to know whats going on. In the end of the movie Kotov is killed and Mitya commits suicide. I believe that Mitya did this because he knew he could never go back to his old life and from the guilt of killing Kotov. I think that this film was directed toward an international audience because there where no films that showed this kind of thing and they wanted the world to know what had happened. Over all i felt like this was a good movie and really helped give us and idea of how twisted and fearful it would have been to live in that time there.
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It certainly conveys the way in which things could come out of nowhere and get you. The film does a very good job of creating an impossibly idyllic and peaceful atmosphere--one that you know just can't last in 1930s Russia. The question throughout the film is...how exactly will it all come unraveled. And the ending does a particularly powerful job of showing that...
ReplyDeleteI thought the manner in which Mitya goes about arresting Kotov was interesting. He could have easily barged into the house and arrested Kotov with the other members of the NKVD, but instead he chooses to spend the day with Kotov's family. This gives him the opportunity to subtly pull aside Kotov from the other members of his family to inform him that he is going to be taken away from his family later that night. It's almost as if he does this in order to protect the rest of the family. However, due to the relationships he builds and tries to rekindle through the day results in overwhelming guilt and later his suicide.
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