 The film , as mentioned by Shumyatsky and Eisenstein , is rich in religious iconography and the symbolic struggle between good and evil . Additionally , Birgit <unk> writes , " The peasants here are grey @-@ bearded prophets ; the young men are broad @-@ shouldered Renaissance apostles ; the fleshy girls are earthly Madonnas ; the peasant wrecking the iconostasis is a biblical Samson ; the chubby young boy in the shirt , raised high under the cupola towards the slanting sun @-@ ray which turns his locks golden , is the young Jesus Christ ascending to the Heavenly Throne . " Bezhin Meadow , in its various unreleased versions , was " Dedicated to the bright memory of Pavlik Morozov , a small hero of our time " ( cf . A Hero of Our Time ) . 
