Coming as it does from the depths of the Stalinist regime, the Russian Road to Life is a remarkably optimistic film. A host of nonprofessional children are cast as Moscow street kids, left homeless by the Bolshevik revolution. They get into all sorts of melodramatic scrapes until they're rounded up by kindly, altruistic Soviet functionaries. The children are reformed (in the nicest possible way) and made useful members of society. Road to Life is simplistic in its solutions to society's problems, albeit no more so than the usual Hollywood product from the same period.
@MoMA. The US version. Slow motion; cascading tears; the interti
has to be placed in that particular context. for the first time sound has filled up space. Space has become so fragile in the face of free voices. In socialism people speak. Its this the most impor...
7。苏联首有声，音乐赞农村
比起前辈来说造诣确实差点，偏写实主义，但镜头设计剪辑依然有很大的令人震惊的感觉，让我想起了同时期佛利茨朗在美国拍的《M就是凶手》，这样一对比下来，后者根本没法看了
室内人多聒噪，户外空镜爽清
