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不知剧情的改编程度占比多少 看完觉得些许狗血但总归是有情绪波动的 两人前期的每一次独处都让人担心受怕 中尉渣了点但按照背景却又是能够理解的无可奈何 貌似女主对两个男主的情感演绎不够完整 到头来只剩了个惨 但一些细节表明她其实早感觉有问题 所以对于一、四年后的字幕跳过式发展不太接受 不往深层想的话是没有表现女主的无辜反觉着急结婚生娃式特别突然又刻意的 因而后面的二人世界再甜蜜 更像一场梦 还很难让观众真正开心起来 士兵的塑造是最合理的 是做自己 是有勇气的爱 因为时代的黑暗 他的爱 他们的爱 只能存在没有时间没有思想的地方 观后感只有难受、心疼、遗憾 看到Sergey 新年夜只能在本属于他们的公寓角落悄悄落泪心都化了 真实故事的改编也许应是这样 现实往往不像剧本 大多都是这样的过程与结局 真实的Sergey在2017可能一个人离开了人世 带着忘不了的爱 带着因时代产生的遗憾……

没什么野心的爱情片，踏踏实实讲了个一开始就注定是悲剧的故事。想起《新白发魔女传》下一条短评说，爱要面目全非才好看。每次看到这句我都会想，“好看”与否是站在看客立场给出的评价，我们轻飘飘的摇头或赞赏指向的，是戏中人的一生。“好看”很重要吗？有时候我宁愿有情人都得到最俗气最安定的幸福。 死里逃生后惊魂未定的拥抱，同榻而眠时认真勾勒的未来，向主流生活投降后在暗房里偷偷凝视挚爱的影像，下一秒传来妻子的呼唤，于是打开房门，任胶卷在强光下失效。 ——是的，妻子。在文艺作品里，我倾向于把社会问题还原到具体的人身上，在这里我不想探讨群体、不想剖析结构，我只看到了三个痛苦的人。爱里没有无辜者，但路易莎显然是最不应该承受悲剧的人。男人都有处可逃，逃向戏剧，逃向蓝天，他们有一整个“外面”可以躲避自我，路易莎没有， 她是罗曼的妻子、是谢廖沙的母亲，唯独不能是医科大学的学生。她放弃了一切，把自己献给建立在谎言上的家庭。 愿某地方，不需将爱杀害；愿某日子，不需痛苦忍耐。

当你按下快门的时候，，在那一刻，一定有什么东西，永远消失了，一个永远不会再出现的时刻，如同幽灵一般逃离这个世界 把命运托付给自身，而非星辰——莎士比亚 你有足够的理性，不要屈服于酗酒，以及语言的杂乱，不要向肉欲屈服，也不要迷恋金钱，最重要的是，不要说谎，不要欺骗自己，对自己撒谎的人，只能听到自己的谎言，本质上，他无法分辨自己内心的真相，或是他身边的真相，如此便失去了对自己喝他人的尊重，没有尊严，也就不会再爱了。 你觉得为什么我们要用名著来教你，因为这些故事里的人物，并非理性的，他们是鲜活的，有呼吸的，有感受的人，他们因战栗而温柔 去说，去做，去思考，去生活，他们不是一回事。我再也无法分裂自己了，我也无法同时属于所有人 谢尔盖，我必须选择唯一一个我仍能感到自由的地方——天空，请不要等我了，忘了我吧，我会一直想着你的，无论未来如何，我永远都会在你身边

这是真实故事改编，俗套这种字眼不适合落在这个作品上面。

成年人也有纯爱。

罗曼说自己没办法分裂自己，说不想让自己心爱的人受伤。所以，他往天空去。《小王子》的作家圣埃克苏佩里也是飞行员。那个年代飞机的安全性同现在的飞机，是无法比拟的。那种冒着生命危险，依旧要像鸟一样展翅高飞。为什么？天空与圣埃克苏佩里而言，就是一场叛逆。而对罗曼来说，天空是自由。是独属于真正自己的片刻宁静。

至少他们都曾有过一时半刻不违背内心的选择，这就够了。参考采访（豆友发的一篇影评）这部电影希望告诉我们，大胆的爱。

你的爱若坚定，则丝毫不比任何人逊色。谢尔盖，没有路易莎的身份。也没有和罗曼组成过家庭。但他愿意在罗曼来找他的时候，放下身边的一切，坐上那辆和罗曼一起去远方的火车。人生若是尽兴过，散场时也可以无憾。

最后路易莎的拥抱又代表什么呢？和解？同悲？你心里的答案我就不得而知了。

黎明之美就在于它脱胎于最深的黑暗。

既然你都耐心翻到这里了～那我就再说几句吧

你在妄想去批评他人之前，首先做的比你所评价的对象好。不然会有人伤心的。

Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodii in Firebird

Director Peeter Rebane and leading actor Tom Prior (The Theory of Everything and Kingsman: The Secret Service) fought to bring Sergey Fetisov’s memoir of a secret love affair between two soldiers in the Soviet Air Force to the big screen. Co-written and co-produced by the pair, Firebird is a sensitive if not slightly melodramatic true story of gay love in Soviet-occupied Estonia. Firebird opens in 1977 with Sergey (Prior) serving his last few weeks of conscription. His girlfriend Luisa (Diana Pozharskaya) has started planning their life together, but Sergey soon becomes distracted by dashing fighter pilot Lieutenant Roman Medveyev (Oleg Zagorodnii). Looking like silver screen icons of the bygone age of Hollywood, the two men bond over their shared interest in the arts. Sergey once had dreams of becoming a stage actor and a night at the ballet seeing Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ brings the pair closer together. Their relationship is all clandestine late-night encounters and longing glances. Luisa hasn’t spotted their connection, obviously placing herself as the third member of a love triangle. An anonymous report exposing Roman’s indiscretions is a reminder that sexual relations between two men wasn’t just frowned upon, it could be punished by five year’s hard labour. The pair must make a decision between risking their lives in the face of escalating KGB investigations, or hiding their feelings. It’s desperately romantic, even if the film chooses melodrama over realism. Firebird’s narrative does take the most obvious turns. The weakness of this film is its reliance on obvious twists and cliched character development. Sergey embarks on an acting career, whilst Roman continues in the military. Tensions heighten when Roman embarks on married, domestic life with a woman whilst Sergey is more relaxed about his sexuality. Firebird leans less on the perilous action of being gay in the Soviet era, but instead on more clandestine affair cliché. Despite the obvious journey, it’s a beautifully realised account of love flourishing against a cold, loveless background. Prior and Zagorodnii look good together, Prior sweet and wide-eyed whilst Zagorodnii is handsome and chiselled. The camera zoom is on their faces, every micro-expression of longing picked up by the lens. The choice to use an international cast speaking English won’t please everyone. Using Estonian dialogue with subtitles may have added an authenticity because at times the Eastern Bloc accents are a little distracting;Parasite proved that if a film is good enough, people will happily read the subtitles.

Still from firebird

Firebird looks visually stunning. The intimate scenes are romantic, with late-night swims and dimly lit lovemaking. Some may criticise that the romance is sanitized with the camera moving away when the mood heats up. This is a film about stolen glances, not steamy nights. For a debut feature director who is famed for music videos and tour documentaries (he was also a Eurovision producer), Rebenae knows how to create an atmosphere. The production design should also be commended. The story can be told between any two men, in any part of the world, in any era in history. It is clear through sets, costume, and sound that this is a Soviet-occupied state in the 1970s. What Firebird lacks in originality, it makes up for in atmosphere. The threat this will all be taken away from them lingers over every scene together. In the daytime, the coldness of military life is reflected in the grey colour palette. The scenes transform from a sterile greyness to a warmness as they meet under dim lights, and in the reflection of the moonlight by the river. Firebird will be familiar to many romantic film fans. It relies on well used tropes that were better executed by Call Me by Your Name and Brokeback Mountain. Anyone looking for that uplifting gay love story should move elsewhere. While it’s a beautiful film, it brings nothing new to the library of LBGTQ+ movies.Yet somehow, it will be enough if someone watching this film can resonate with the story.

作者

by Amelia Harvey Amelia is a freelance writer, frustrated novelist and occasional wrangling of international students. She is especially interested in LBGTQ culture and 1960s and 70s music. She also writes for Frame Rated, The People’s Movies and Unkempt Magazine, amongst others. Her favourite films include Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge and Closer. You can find her on Twitter @MissAmeliaNancy and letterboxd @amelianancy

如果你有幸在简短的一生中遇到真爱，你会发现真爱是永远不会忘记的人。

毫无疑问，谢尔盖是罗曼的真爱，之所以选择不了妻子儿子和谢尔盖任何一方，是因为对真爱撒谎的人会迷失自我，他已经没办法选择哪一边了，无论站在哪边，他都会受到伤害，会伤害爱他的人

他爱他吗？爱的，爱到无法自拔，爱到只要留在妻子身边就会痛苦万分。

正如最后给谢尔盖的信中说的，说话和做事，思考和生活，是完全不一样，他无法分裂自己，最终只会选择天空。