Symbolism In The Return Movie
The Return, directed by Andrei Zvygiantsev, is a film that is ultimately about the evolving relationship between two brothers who had to grow up without a father. In the beginning of this film the brothers got in petty fights and didn’t take care of each other. The also had a hard time being independent and acting maturely. By the end of the film, the boys had learned that if they work together they are capable of surviving on their own and getting things done. They realize that they don’t need their father to be good men. They grew up without their father and may never see him again so it was an important thing for them to learn that they can become men despite not having a father to help them. The key scene of this film was the scene where
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When the father metaphorically dies, the boys are able to finally move with their life without a father. They work together to be more independent and start to act like young men instead of children. The filmmaker used sound and symbolic cuts to show a change in the boys. The title “The Return” is because it the father symbolically comes back into the boys lives but then returns to where he came from, the water. The idea that the father was symbolic is brought up by his lack of presence in the photos at the end of the film. At that point the viewer can look back and see that there were many elements that support this, such as his first and last shot being the same image of him drifting away into the water, the first scene of the film is underwater and the same music is used then as when the fathers body is sinking back into the water, and the similarity between the box the father dug up and the box Ivan ran to at the beginning of the film to find the book with memories of his father. Ultimately, this film was about Ivan and Andrei learning to become men without their father there to teach them. They finally got some closure as to whether their father had abandoned them and could stop dreaming of him ever coming back. The brothers learned to face reality and work together to get things
When the father metaphorically dies, the boys are able to finally move with their life without a father. They work together to be more independent and start to act like young men instead of children. The filmmaker used sound and symbolic cuts to show a change in the boys. The title “The Return” is because it the father symbolically comes back into the boys lives but then returns to where he came from, the water. The idea that the father was symbolic is brought up by his lack of presence in the photos at the end of the film. At that point the viewer can look back and see that there were many elements that support this, such as his first and last shot being the same image of him drifting away into the water, the first scene of the film is underwater and the same music is used then as when the fathers body is sinking back into the water, and the similarity between the box the father dug up and the box Ivan ran to at the beginning of the film to find the book with memories of his father. Ultimately, this film was about Ivan and Andrei learning to become men without their father there to teach them. They finally got some closure as to whether their father had abandoned them and could stop dreaming of him ever coming back. The brothers learned to face reality and work together to get things