This was a masterpiece on reflecting the Great Purge of the Soviet Union. As the name of the movie indicated, the whole movie was covered in a increasing despair, like being burnt by the sun, the people can only slowly suffocated, but just being unable to get rid of it. With the story unfolded, the emotional entanglements among the various roles was more and more clear, but no one was able to unlock it; while at the same time, the pressure of the Great Purge was growing. Everyone waited for his own unavoidable death desperately, until the huge portrait of Stalin rose at the end.
The movie depicted the era of the Great Purge in a cruel way. Many scenes and props in the movie had profound meanings: the broken glass along the riverside and military exercises in holidays, implied crisis behind the calm in the country; the driver who always got lost and kept driving around, was an obvious metaphor for the lost mass controlled by the totalitarian; the huge portrait of Stalin rose up high in the sky, not only revealing the background of the era, but also suggesting that the point of the movie was the discussion to such dictatorship. The movie applied lots of picturesque rural scenery, contrasting the vicious burning sun.
本片是对苏联大清洗时代的反思的佳作。正如片名所言，全片的气氛笼罩在一片逐渐加重的绝望之中，如同被太阳慢慢炙烤，让人慢慢窒息，却无法挣扎。随着剧情的展开，各角色间的感情纠葛慢慢清晰，却无力解开，而大清洗的政治压力也越来越大，直到最后斯大林的巨大画像冉冉升起，所有的当事人在绝望中走向死亡。
本片以近乎残酷的白描手法，再现了那个大清洗的时代。影片中很多场景和道具都有深刻的含义：河边危险的碎玻璃以及假日中的军事演习，暗示着国家平静中孕育的危机。始终在原地打转迷路的司机，明显是对当时前苏联的被集权控制而集体陷入迷思的隐喻。斯大林的巨幅画像升在天空中，揭示了时代背景，也暗示着本片的核心就是针对这样的独裁政权。电影有大量的诗画般的田园风光，但却越发反衬出烈日的狠毒。
Performance impression:
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov
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