In the movie The Cranes are Flying, the parents of Veronika are killed in an air raid. Around the 35 minute mark, we see her parents refusing to leave the house when the raid comes. Then Veronika returns home and her parents have been killed, because of their refusal to leave. This shows both ego and sacrifice, a lot of people thought that they would survive the war and it would not change their lives. Many people had to give their lives to be able to win the war. The actions of her parents greatly complicate Veronika’s life – see is now a homeless orphan. This would have been common in the years of war that occurred through the Soviet Union. The film does a good job showing how complicated decisions were and how people suffered during the war. Do you think that many people died like Veronika’s parents? Do you think that her reaction was natural to the untimely death of her parents? Does this show the humanity of death and mistakes made during the war?
I think a lot of people probably died like Veronika’s parents because that is tough decisions because they could have still left their homes and still could have died from the air raid. Veronika’s reaction did seem natural because they were in war and you never know what’s going to happen so she probably was just expecting the worst no matter what.