Ivan's Childhood Comments

  • Fay 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    Fantasy dreams and real scenes show the same power in different ways, and the use of space and sound is amazing. Tarkovsky's sculpting of fragments is almost at its peak in his debut work, but the whole still has a sense of...

  • Stanford 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    The most eye-catching flaw in the film seems to me to be Ivan's characterization, too mature and calm or even scary, not in line with the temperament of his age, or at least some flaws should be exposed to be more real. I always feel that the image is a bit...

  • Cheyanne 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    The overall feeling of the film is moist, like wet clothes soaked in rain, not very comfortable to wear on the body, suggesting the suffering and hardship brought to the people by the...

  • Roy 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    Based on Bogomolov's novel. The novel adopts Khaltsev's first-person pronoun, which is flat and straightforward. Tarkovsky decided to add Ivan's dream to the film. He wants Ivan to live on the screen in two sets of shots: one is the real world, where he is a scout, performing combat missions; and the other is the world of his dreams and memories. 00:02:41, the mother in the dream. 00:13:28, details of the composition of leaves and fruits. 00:17:03, the connection between reality and dream, the...

  • Mabelle 2022-03-14 14:12:24

    8.0 Almost crying, Ivan fell asleep in the darkness of a deep well, and Ivan and his mother in the dream looked at themselves in the light of the well. Throughout the story, the old tower emphasizes the opposition between war and nature (using dreams as the carrier), but in these surreal scenes, dreams are the expansion of the real space, and the two are separated by only one water surface in the same...

  • Sheila 2022-01-09 08:01:14

    War is not a matter of children, but in our country, there is a lack of compassion and thinking. It has become an impassioned ghost-fighting drama with increased hormones like "Chicken Feather Letter" and "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", from an anti-war film to a propaganda...

  • Darius 2022-01-09 08:01:14

    [Shanghai Film Festival Film Version] The debut of the Old Tower, Venice Golden Lion Award. 1. Contrast the distortion and cruelty of war with beautiful dreams or conjectures. 2. The style is not yet mature, but it has begun to take shape: long mirror, white birch, sudden rain, dripping water, apple, horse, Dürer [Four Knights] prints are the same as [Flying to Space]. 3. The nightmare in the basement is presented with the mirror and high-contrast lighting, and the end runs to the water to pay...

Extended Reading

Ivan's Childhood quotes

  • Ivan: Mamma, there's a cuckoo up there!

  • Ivan's Mother: If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.