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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。

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。

喜欢firebird这部电影。好可惜据说放映前泄露片段，这部电影一点也不卖座，但是演员颜值演技和剧情让人难以忘怀，还是根据真事改编的。 这个片两个人在一起的时候虽然充满了禁忌危险但心动指数💯，前面多甜后面分开就有多让人心碎💔虐死了。不敢看第二遍，第一次看就哭了2次真的是😭 🐦二等兵Private Surgey在离开枯燥的服役基地前遇到了前来支援的飞行员中尉 Comrade Roman，Roman发现Surgey也懂拍照就大方送了胶卷给他，之后就有了在冲印暗房里的暧昧洗照片，哈哈我也是服了，一开始主动的是Roman，后来屈于事业世俗的也是他（但是I totally understand him）在树林里Roman主动亲了大为震惊的Surgey,但Surgey很快就回应了他，我暗恋的人也喜欢我[抱一抱]然后天降小雨，他们一起笑的样子太美好了 🐦Roman找到看不下去他和Lucia坐在一起看大电影，独自去教室排练戏剧的Surgey,关灯后要亲他，这个情节好会，虽然见不得光在黑暗中也要吻你。被车灯照亮后马上分开Let's go游进大海里才能掩人耳目在一起，这牵动我心的情节🥰 🐦我发誓这是我活到现在最痛恨KGB的一次，我想把那个恶心的中尉碎尸万段，虽然他的上级也知道相恋，可能因为惜才没有说破，但是这个中尉还出现在片尾彩蛋里，我真希望有一个第二集是讲他把Roman关了起来，假死。这世上有什么是资本做不到的呢？ 🐦Roman的第一次退缩，被匿名信吓到了拒Surgey百米之外，在飞行任务中不得不紧急迫降，是Surgey和另一名机械师把阻力网好不容易装好让他顺利滑行。这里是我最喜欢的镜头，就是Surgey被命令回去后还是来找坐在驾驶舱里心有余悸劫后余生的Roman，Roman亲吻了Surgey的手应该是感谢他救了自己，之后Surgey抓住Roman的衣领亲他，差点失去才知道自己已经那么爱他。就这段没有一句台词但是眼神和动作把他们的感情推上一个高度。之后就不用说了，露的相对多的一段(其实也不多)，但还是有个Surgey抱着Roman头，心疼担心写在脸上，能感受到他们饱满的情绪。 🐦Roman再次被警告两个人在房间里还差点被发现，我真的不想回忆这段紧张气愤，恶心的KGB还打断了即将发生的亲亲！直接把Roman吓得对Surgey提了分手。还娶了女秘书掩人耳目，但是Roman到底是为了自己还是像他说的在protect Surgey呢?应该是两者皆有。 🐦婚礼进行中两人还在后台讲话也是big胆了。每次Surgey看不下去Roman和女生在一起跑出来后，Roman总是会跟出来，说明Roman一直在关注他呀。Roman傻傻地问what're u doing这里应该是被牵起了手，然后Surgey要亲他他也没有躲掉，一定是听到Surgey说couldn't forget you被爱情冲昏了头忘了自己在和谁结婚了😮 🐦后面两人好不容易出来租房一周的甜蜜假期也是抓马，一一被朋友和妻子发现恋情，最后还被征召上战场，这苦命的鸳鸯。。可以理解为Roman得知Surgey不会介入他的婚姻要离开他，而Luisa知道了密恋，Roman终于不想再背负这个秘密毅然把生命献给天空也算是一种解脱。在当时可能也没有更好的选择了。Roman带Surgey看芭蕾剧，鼓励他追求演员的梦想，把自己儿子名字取成Surgey的小名，我相信他是很爱Surgey的即使他结婚生子隐瞒世人，所以这份爱已经深到他愿意用死亡来抹掉失去爱情的悲伤😭 🐦Roman信里的话让人肝肠寸断，I shall always think of you,Surgey.No matter what life may bring,I will always be there with you.但怎么with啊？灵魂吗？ 🐦戏剧始终是戏剧，虽然电影让人悲伤，他们演的太好了，亲密戏超级自然，演出了心动和爱恋，各自的形象也很贴角色。但这两个演员戏外的追求是两个截然不同的世界。算是帮助我走出来不要这么入戏🤧

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

首先我是一个退役军人，有感而发，希望看完🤲 不知道大家有没有感觉这一类的电影看完给人的感受都基于、延伸于《call me by your name》。我上学期大学里一个语文老师说为什么现代作家总喜欢写耽美文，就是因为男孩子和男孩子的爱情无论放在这个爱站队的当下社会，还是从前都是百般受挫的，结局基本上都是不美好的，这样的文字，比起甜甜的撒狗粮更能触动人心弦，所以导演估计也是为了冲掉观看电影后的受虐感，在电影中很多地方还是安排了一些令人会心一笑的桥段，这一点我觉得很好，因为电影确实很需要不同的情绪来提高受众群体的观影感，毕竟是这是电影，并不是像电视剧那样可以一件小事讲一集的。其次，这是一个很长的真实的爱情故事，电影本身就已在尽善尽美的把故事的完整性和细节二者融汇贯通。 再说说角色的演技，个人看来三位主角演技都是在线的，有一些说人角色演技很直男，没有共情感，我觉得这是抛开环境去评论演员，首先我们要知道，时间是上世纪70年代，地点是苏联又是在部队，但凡把这三个要素随便换一个更自在一点的不那么压抑的，我都觉得主角就不会有被人说没有演技了。不知道大家有没有观察过很多细节，电影中频繁的来演习，上校说不准男主讲那种笑话等等很多，这说明什么？我以亲身经历告诉你，这是准备要dz了，这是一种很压抑环境，要去dz了！兄弟，更何况他们是上下级关系，一个是高高在上的军官，一个是默默无闻的义务兵，期间的鸿沟，很难一时逾越，没有去部队的人也许真的很难感受这种等级制度极度森严的上下级关系，所以才会对他们的情感产生疑问，综上所述，演员所演的关系真的是恰到好处。 还有一些涉及伦理问题的，我不好评论，但是我觉得还是要去看他们当时所处的环境和人物的真实性格。

总之这部电影给我的感觉就是 捡到宝了

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……