Ballad of a Soldier

Today we watched the movie Ballad of a soldier directed by Grigori Chukhrai's (1959). I enjoyed this movie today. It was a good love story and really told the story of a russian soldier in this time period. The story really showed how hard it was for some to get a train anywhere during the war, it also showed how the public looked at soldiers, when he was walking down to the train people would turn around and look at them like they have never seen a soldier before. another big point i noticed was when Alyosha got to the town to deliver the soap for his friend he just meet, all of his family was so excited to here he was alive and had a lot of questions for him, but you also saw that they havent heard from there son in a very long time and had no idea if he was alive or not, this really made think about how hard it must have been for familys during the war, they would send there love ones off to war and not know if they would ever here from them again or where they even were. The other big point i noticed was that when Alyosha arrived at home and everyone crowded around him you could see that it was mostly all women in the town, i feel that Chukhrai did this on purpose to show how the war took all of the men out of towns and left women basically by themselves. I feel this movie painted a very good picture of how hard the war was on the families of the men and women in this war.