The Cranes Are Flying Movie Analysis

The influences of Boris and his memory on Veronika in The Cranes are Flying are also reflective of the ethical. After finding herself depressed and lost in the World, Veronika meets a child named Boris, who she believes is a sign sent to her from her Boris. The memory of her Boris and this apparent sign from him reinvigorates her and she takes a more active role in her life, taking in the child and leaving her husband, Mark, seeing his true colors as a schemer and a liar. It is Boris’s memory that strengthens her, and causes her to act for the ethical near the end of the film. His example as a Soviet and a soldier for the ethical are shown to be influential for many people, including his father, Fyodor Ivanovich, Veronika, and the man for whom he give his life to save. Chiaureli’s representation of Stalin is a different case in terms of the reflection …show more content…
His ethical, the religious life, coincides with Soviet Communism, as both are the universal and the embodiment of their Worlds. For Kierkegaard the religious life as the ethical allows his to devote his life to God, and for the Soviet Union, Soviet Communism as the ethical allows the people to devote their lives to the Soviet way of life. Boris, Alyosha, and Stalin never let their selfish desires control them in their respective films, and as such they all followed the ethical to the best of their abilities. Boris volunteered to go to the front in order to fulfill his duty to the ethical, Alyosha never diverted from his goal of getting back to the front after seeing his mother once again in order to fulfill his identity as a Russian soldier fighting for the ethical, and Stalin existed in the film as the personification of the ethical himself, supporting his people and Communism while encouraging them to continue the fight for the