Authentic diamond within a metamorphic rock; If the cinematography as well as the formal cuts of the style were polished and restored then we would have pure beauty, but we would strip it of the best, of its uniqueness, of its rustic "beauty." Compare the scene in vignette 3, when the Red Army soldier is shaving his comrade Malyutka and evokes his memory of the war in 1916 - the way in which "we went to die, so to speak for that Fatherland", we see them for Soviet territory against the Chinese Kuomintang, we see them, chilled by the cold and the unbearable blizzard, jumping from the trench or …
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