The drama of the uprooted man, snatched from his land and taken to the city, between 4 cold walls, surrounded by metal, brick and glass, without clean air and light, in pursuit of chimeras (money, car, etc.). Note the contrast between the two worlds, the gray of the industrial city and the perpetual light from the country (probably filmed in the White Nights Russia lands). In this gloomy, industrialized world, life no longer makes sense, souls no longer communicate, doubt creeps into minds, natural connections are perverted. In this gloomy world, she, a sensitive soul, does not want to give birth to Death, a child like her father, dead in life and chooses the right death as a form of purification. A clear sign of this idea is the spring from which water flows again, living water that washes the earth, washes away sins, washes away unlove. Karma was paid, the sacrifice was received. And life goes on. It's harvest time. Another summer has passed.
The brother is also an important part of the drama. He represents the deepest perversion and ugliness of the city, a piece of soulless flesh, which no longer cares about anything, giving in to the ephemeral pleasures and which the disease of unlove consumes little by little. And maybe everything would have been so simple. The whole family remains to live in the country, slowly healing under the beneficent rays of the sun and walking barefoot on the land of their ancestors. But it seems that it is too late, evil is already too deep, patience is at its limit, hope is dead.
Review of The Banishment
