So in order to portray a movie about the evils of 1930's Soviet Russia, we need to be in the 1990's Russian Federation....interesting. Burnt by the Sun felt almost like a Ruskaland version of a Quintin Tarentino film. This film was very heavy on dialogue and the use of visual imagery to get it's message of the horrors of Stalinist Russia across. I particularly loved the characters interactions with each other. I felt really bad for the poor truck driver, he just wanted to deliver his goods.
I thought that the floating sun was a particularly emotional imagery. It served not only to reinforce the title of the movie, but to also help to show the effects that Stalin's reign of terror was causing. As you watch the appearances of the orb, you can notice the sound of things burning. At one point, you actually see a picture crack. When this picture is shown later in the film, there is no visible crack, which helps to establish that the orb is more of a feeling then an actual entity.
And also perhaps suggests that the sun is so bright--yet so elusive--that no one quite knows when they're about to get burnt by it...
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