tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post4494690336818712277..comments2024-03-28T10:44:41.756-05:00Comments on The War Movie Buff: SHOULD I READ IT? Ivan's Childhood (1962)War Movie Buffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-59377479800453814732014-01-11T20:30:52.374-06:002014-01-11T20:30:52.374-06:00You are certainly right about it being anti-war. ...You are certainly right about it being anti-war. I would use the word bleak. As far as it not being your typical Soviet propaganda, it was part of the Khrushchev Thaw that allowed filmmakers to have a little more artistic control. War Movie Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-72825132615700783342014-01-11T02:55:32.083-06:002014-01-11T02:55:32.083-06:00I had seen this film while browsing Russian cinema...I had seen this film while browsing Russian cinema a few years back. What really caught my eye was how anti war the movie feels. It was a Soviet film IIRC and they didn't call it The Great Patriotic War cause they thought it was failure yet the movie is very bleak. None of the propagandistic flair like in Alexander Nevsky. No choir music. The overall symbolism rings like All Quiet on the Western Front with the boy's early innocence and physical destruction becomes a metaphor for the breaking of a human spirit in war. At least that was the vibe I got from it.pirateship1982noreply@blogger.com