{"id":1050,"date":"2020-04-24T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2020-04-24T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:54:00","slug":"the-calm-vs-terror-in-burnt-by-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/xwerkman\/the-calm-vs-terror-in-burnt-by-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calm vs Terror in &#8220;Burnt by the Sun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Burnt by the Sun,&#8221; there were many calm, peaceful scenes that juxtaposed the theme of terror in the film. The first scene where this appears was on of the first scenes in the film. The scene of the child singing an elegant song is roughly cut to a child running from tanks of the soviet army. This scene displayed foreshadowing of this theme in the rest of the film. Furthermore, the urgency of the gas drill with everyone frantically running to put gas masks on is contrasted by the peaceful image of Sergei and Nadya floating on a river in silence and peace. \u00a0The contrast in these scenes related to the overall theme of the film. The calm, peaceful life of the great General Kotov, a well respected and powerful general in the army, seems to be protected from the terror that has been created by Stalin. After all, Sergei can stop many tanks with strict orders from driving across wheat fields<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. H<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">e is ultimately not safe from the Secret police. The Final calm scene is Sergei in his dressing room staring at a picture of him and Stalin, a trusted companion. Sergei even has Stalin&#8217;s direct line. Overall, theses scenes show that no one is safe from the terror of Stalin and his rule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Burnt by the Sun,&#8221; there were many calm, peaceful scenes that juxtaposed the theme of terror in the film. The first scene where this appears was on of the first scenes in the film. The scene of the child singing an elegant song is roughly cut to a child running from tanks of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-11-stalinism-thaw-and-stagnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}