Tips on how to understand art films

Earnestine 2022-04-19 09:01:42

It doesn't matter what the director wants to express, just how you want to understand it.

Just look at the picture and talk.

After all, everything in the world is the same.

A true work of art must be general knowledge.

Of course, this is also a "home remedy", and my point of view is relatively post-modern. The most classical art has always been high above, highlighting the divinity, while the more modern artworks tend to focus on interaction and deconstruction. The artwork becomes a container. What it needs to do is to put your opinions and thoughts into it. It is more like a kind of inspiration. You can explore your own answers by yourself. The intention expressed by the author is only one of the meanings of the artwork.

I think Ingmar Bergman knows that he needs to understand various European histories, religions, and philosophies, but if I don't understand them, am I not qualified to read them?

Cultural things are accumulated by thousands of people, and we should maintain an attitude of awe and learning. But don't ignore the most direct feelings in your small inner heart, because the accumulation of so many small individuals has brought together civilization.

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Extended Reading
  • Braeden 2021-11-13 08:01:25

    Roughly borrowed the zone setting and the character of the stalker from the original sci-fi book "Road Picnic", as for "the aliens just passed by the earth for a picnic and left a pile of garbage, but we thought they would come back." The story is already thousands of miles away. "Stalker" is also one of the darkest and most dangerous Tarkovsky works (even if you only see the lonely green grass and the sewage-flowing rural ruins on foot), this film is not only useful for the subsequent Chernobyl nuclear disaster The warning predicted that the pollution of the location in Tallinn, Estonia led to the death of three or four major creators from cancer (including Tarkovsky, who died prematurely). The contradiction between the old tower and the photographer Leiberg broke out (the first film shot failed to be fully developed), which led to a change of photographers and left visible traces of the picture (several surreal empty shots). Using love and miracles to answer the painful question at the end seems meaningful. The film’s impressive several transitions, such as the black and white color switching on the small track, the "fourth man" shot into the tank car with the corpse, and the dune room are all classics (I can't help but want to watch it a few more times).

  • Reed 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    Another stalker, "Wild Boar," hopes to revive his dead brother in the room, but returns home extremely rich, and the exclusion zone fulfills his innermost desire, not the one he suggests to himself. The protagonists don't end up in the room because they haven't been brave enough to peer into their innermost desires. The stalker's wife loves him unrequited, her love is the last miracle against the lack of belief, morality, and spirituality in modern society, and writers and scientists are the victims who symbolize modern society. The film uses long shots, instead of destroying the characters' behavior and time and space due to editing, but instead creates a prose-like poetry.

Stalker quotes

  • Stalker's Wife: You know, Mama was very opposed to it. You've probably already guessed, that he's one of God's fools. Everyone around here used to laugh at him. He was such a wretched muddler. Mama used to say: "he's a stalker, a marked man, an eternal jailbird. Remember the kind of children stalkers have." I didn't even argue. I knew all about it, that he was a marked man, a jailbird. I knew about the kids. Only what could I do? I was sure I'd be happy with him. I knew there'd be a lot of sorrow, but I'd rather know bitter-sweet happiness, than a grey, uneventful life. Perhaps I invented all this later. But when he come up to me and said: "Come with me", I went. And I've never regretted it. Never. There was a lot of grief, and fear, and pain, but I've never regretted it, nor envied anyone. It's just fate. It's life, it's us. And if there were no sorrow in our lives, it wouldn't be better, it would be worse. Because then there'd be no happiness, either. And there'd be no hope.

  • Stalker: In the Zone, the longer way, the less risk.