Among Tarkovsky's seven feature films, "Zerkalo" is the most proficient use of Tarkovsky's nonlinear narrative. In the dreamlike "Zerkalo", the director only retains the necessary imagery without any explanation. At the same time, the images are misplaced in the sequence of the images, constructing a fragmented collage narrative similar to "Broken Mirror Recirculation", but not The icy permutations and combinations are based on the flowing inner feelings of dreams as horses
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"Zerkalo" has a strong personal mark of the author, which prevents the general audience from understanding and accepting it. The audience will feel that there are too many symbols or metaphors in the movie. The film is the director's transcendence of himself and the true display of life. It is soaked in Tarkovsky’s childhood memories, but it is not a simple elegy lyrical memoir. He does not elaborate on the ins and outs of the events he experienced and directly presents the scene, which is also mixed with news films and movies. The interlacing of time and space is even more puzzling. The memory penetrates the curtain of time and solidifies into eternity on the film
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"Zerkalo" is one of the strong proofs of the fusion of expressionism and realism. The film is a highly authoritative poetic film. From the form to the content, it is full of the director’s personal intentions. The purely personal lyrical tone of the whole narrative that seems not so appropriate makes people feel unpleasant, and it is easy to produce some kind of towards the director. A misunderstanding of arrogance to a degree. "Zerkalo" contains various art forms, such as television, poetry, photos, documentaries, symphonies, literary letters and oil paintings. Its greatest significance is to create a pure and poetic atmosphere that is essentially different from other art forms. film art. The film is not only limited to childhood and mother memories, but also extends from personal and family issues to the Soviet Union and even the modern history of this century. The spiral narrative style of the film is also very unique, with several longitudinal axes running through it in the three-layer spiral structure. Several longitudinal axes prevent the spiral structure of the film from spreading, and make the development of the story have complete consistency, and make the complex image elements to be connected smoothly. The high level of artistic accomplishment of directors and the unremitting pursuit of elite culture in art films have caused "Zerkalo" to be somewhat obscure, but even if the film cannot be thoroughly read from the text, it will not affect the image itself. The shock of
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