It was like Polina and Frans in Mute. The young girl and the young man fall in love at first sight and come together quite naturally, without any regard for the huge gap in their status. Can a German soldier who is an aggressor fall in love with a Soviet civilian girl? They didn't know and didn't think about it. Since they fell in love at first sight, they should be together naturally. Isn't love such a simple and beautiful thing? And so they fell in love. The price for their love was that when the special order came, Franz had to kill his superior with his own hands in order to protect Polina's mother and daughter. That night, he dreamed of his mother and father, who were planning a wedding for him, as if he had returned to the small German town where he had lived for 17 years, where there was no war, where there were no special orders, where he was supposed to fall in love with a girl and get everyone's blessing ......
But the reality is that he is a German soldier who is y hated by the Soviets, and in order to survive here, Polina makes him pretend to be mute. While the environment around them is brutal to the point of being horrendous, Franz and Polina's love grows incredibly healthy and beautiful. They hid in a forest, talking, playing, acting out Romeo and Juliet stories, the love they longed for, the love that was as great as they were ...... The woods were not hidden enough in the end, and in the midst of the war, there was no place for them to hide. Franz was wounded, and Polina, in despair, pulled his beloved along in a cart, passing group after group of refugees, and it was so hard for her that she thought she was going to die. But it was her mother's voice that came from the sky, and she said she felt elated because her daughter was pregnant.
The war is over, and they return home with their baby in their arms, and at home, their father is waiting for them. But time does not allow them to rejoice, and the unreasonable Soviet soldiers take the father by force. Seeing the heartbroken Polina, Frans feels despair, he is not able to help his beloved, but can only hide in the tunnels when the soldiers come, and can only live like a mute.
But after all, they are still living. Their love was still strong and growing beautifully. They had four sons and a daughter, they might go to that little town in Germany in the future, and they would always love each other.
Going back to the first scene where they meet, that image moved me. The young girl and the young man met for the first time, the two just look at each other, have a hitched talk about childish topics, they look at each other, the actor's power in the silent performance, love, on this stage flow. It seems that when you meet the person you are destined to meet, looking at each other is the most beautiful expression, better than all the beautiful words. In front of the most delicate feeling, words always feel weak. Like in Sleepless in Seattle, the two scenes between the male and female leads are looking at each other, and the so-called language is just a "Hello". In The Long Engagement, Mathilde finally finds her lover at the end of the movie, and so she looks at her, and looks at her, and looks at her ...... The scene is stretched into a long shot, and the action is prolonged indefinitely.
Another scene that struck me was after Franz's injury, when a desperate Polina pulls the trolley on the side to climb and walk, the trolley has her lover on it, it is all her love and hope. She pulls the trolley as if through smoke, through disaster, through death, the surroundings are cruel to the core, while the love on the trolley grows in safety. I loved the actress in the lead role, and the slightly exaggerated performance made me feel a life force, so strong and so beautiful.
The lighting and set of the stage was stunning, with burnt wood appearing in the form of hangings, and sitting in the second row of seats, I seemed to be able to smell the smell of smoke coming from not too far away. The Soviet music seemed to take me back to a time when there was war and a love that was much stronger than war. That was the era they could not choose, and that was the beautiful and great love they had.