Ballad of a Soldier

I liked this movie very much. It is probably the best movie I’ve seen in this class so far. In the beginning of the movie there is a young man named Alyosha running from a bunch of tanks. He falls into a hole and shoots 2 German tanks with a gun he found when he fell into the hole. When he finally gets back to his head quarters the general wants to see him and calls him a hero. Alyosha asks if instead of the award if he can have time to go home and fix a leaking roof for his mom. The General agrees with him and gives him 6 days to get home fix the roof and come back without being late. Alyosha throughout this entire movie is a hero. First when he is on the train he helps a wounded soldier with his bag and waits for him to wait for his wife. Another thing he does is he finds were a soldiers wife lives that he never knew and gives her some soap. He then takes it back when he sees that the wife is cheating on him. To me that was the right thing to do. Then he goes to give it to the grandpa, who is very nice and proud of the soldier. Then he finally gets home to his mom. He was running around helping everyone else that he never had time to do the thing he was suppose to do. In all of this he falls in love with Shura. Who he met on the train that took him half way home. He wants to tell her and she wants to tell him but they never do and never get a chance to really tell each other how they fell about each other. This film seems like action at the beginning and then turns more drama and then romantic and then sad. It’s really never the same thing through out the movie. I did not like the movie at the end. A movie can’t just end the way it did its leaving to many open ends to it which is stupid. It doesn’t tell us that they found each other and were in love for ever or if he came back home or who won the war. But they hint that he did die in the end credit things when they explain about him. Over all the best movie so far