The Sacrifice Comments

Deron 2022-03-21 09:03:16

[The China Film Archive Beijing Film Festival Screening] Restored version. The film composed of long takes has the feeling of my favorite Greek director Angelopoulos. Silently counted, 149 minutes contains about 119 shots. I didn't understand it before. The shocking long shot until the end left me stunned. Instant transparency. Alexander returned the vows of peace with promised sacrifices, sacrifices, and speechlessness. I have a deeper understanding after learning about the story of Laota and...

Jillian 2022-03-21 09:03:16

Changing positions, the seat made a magnetic sound, filling the gaps of dense dialogue outside the screen, and clearing up several mouthfuls of phlegm. From time to time, I took out my mobile phone to check the time and prepared to hit uber. Last night, the audience was probably in these three states, and this year's BJFF's The subtitles are also useless, thank you for learning a few words. I was fascinated. This line is the best summary: "The creator is a work of art." Where I can't understand...

Casey 2022-03-21 09:03:16

Tarkovsky’s posthumous work refers to a lot of reading and it is more difficult to see. Bergman’s royal photography Sven’s shot is also a focus. The scheduling of long shots and the change and application of tones, simple scenes were finally captured by the famous scene. The fire burned. The shadows of religious nightmares and wars, the natural and profound philosophical flavors of people and art, and the dark-field horror sound effects in the middle section are very magical. Beijing Film...

Bernadette 2022-03-20 09:02:55

Sometimes regaining hope can only burn one (two) of all that exists. The film reveals the suffocation of despair, but at the end of the film, Tarkovsky "dedicates hope to the child", as if he was suddenly awakened by...

Isabel 2022-03-20 09:02:55

9.0/10. The perfect author's film! The tower god uses Bergman's manpower to complete his self-transcendence. The scene jumps a lot, the sub-shots and mise-en-scene (Bazin-style long shots) of the tower god have been perfected, the violin sounds are tear-jerking, and the lighting is excellent! The long shots are one after the other, and the emotional surging is hidden under each picture (a total of 5 eruptions), so clean that no blood is splashed! PS: Domination, Power, Glory,...

Emmanuel 2022-03-20 09:02:55

Found a new version of "Sacrifice" with much better subtitles, so I watched it again and finally understood the whole plot. I would like to interpret the nuclear war plot in the middle as a terrible dream. There are still slow-moving long shots and vague voices of unknown origin, which are less poetic than the previous films, and more stage-style mise-en-scene. Like "Nostalgia", this film is full of the old tower's religious complex and ultimate...

Jovani 2022-03-20 09:02:55

The two long mirrors at one end, one at the end are really calculated, and the signature roll and follow movement are also very beautiful. Unlike the previous film, this film has injected several stunning "Broken Wall" scenes, breaking the fourth wall and directly participating in the same God. (or viewers). In front of the feelings of salvation that the old tower can never eliminate, "Sacrifice" is like a gift and a sacrifice at the same...

Alta 2022-03-19 09:01:09

Alexander is more selfish than Dominic in Nostalgia. Despite the power of the film's long takes and mise-en-scene, the film flows as a spiritual confession under the apocalypse. This feels tedious and overwhelming. Since the old tower was expelled from the Soviet Union, the two feature films seem to have lost more than the native language that once relied on the film to survive. Such exile only brings false freedom and more unnecessary thinking to the old...

Jamir 2022-03-19 09:01:09

The symbols are numerous and the language is obscure, but the themes are not difficult to understand, especially when you know something about Christian salvation and eschatology. We can think of "Nostalgia" as hesitating and searching, and "Sacrifice" as a firm answer. Half a year after the film was completed, Tarkovsky...

Alexander 2022-03-19 09:01:09

"A lonely tree / Even its shadow will turn its back on it / / Unless a child brings a bucket of water every day / Heavier than himself / / Unless it takes root / The seed of tears" - Wang Jiaxin's "Tarkovsky's...