Burnt by the Sun

I really liked this movie. It’s how dramas should be! Starting off heartwarming and ends up so downhill you wish to watch some comedy. It was slow paced but that’s just how some films are.
For me I just really enjoyed the setting in which it took place, almost like ‘The Dying Swan.’ I loved the forestry and gardens. The house in which most of the film took place was very big and detailed and didn’t become irritating. Sometimes I feel like viewers can grow sick of the setting or props or something like that.
Next thing I started off liking right away was the protagonist. Col. Kotov was a character of high respect, tough but loving. The way he commanded the tanks to back off was just interesting because I like to look at a character who knows what’s going on, I guess. He seemed very harsh and insulting to the young cadets, but the humor the writing created at the end of their conversation was enjoyable. I thought he was going to kill someone because it was his day off. I don’t know…
This is a movie that when someone watches it, it tries to show you how well these people in the house know and love each other. It sets itself up for an intense back story. Like, if you didn’t know ANYTHING about the movie, you ask “Is this a sequel to some television show?” They tell many stories and they keep reminding you, “Is it not wonderful how well developed this place and these people are?!”
I bet when you watch this film a second time, you think how the movie is given a huge push right when Dmetri arrives. Learning that Nadya is actually his baby, and ending with a simple car ride. The entire movie assures you how great people are up front, until in war, people are different on the inside and in the past. Dmetri is really close to Nadya but he’s cold blooded at the end when they take away Kotov. It’s all so sad.
Being burnt by the sun, I’m assuming means people who have been scarred by war, or maybe the Soviet Union. I bet that’s pretty basic, but that’s the message I’m getting. It means that the sun burns away your real beliefs and tells you to worship it. Kotov is arrested for spying on the Soviets for Germany and plotting against Stalin. That is what he really wanted, but he’s been burned by the Sun that sits over the country and locks the people in and makes them worship it.
I’d say it’s directed to an international audience because there are more than Soviet citizens who are forced to worship their land. All the people who are burned by the truths of other people are dedicated this movie.