This is a film destined to be appreciated and understood by a few, especially in China.
Even in its audience, it is difficult to appreciate the real spiritual theme of director Tarkovsky without careful consideration.
Laota is a master of his own style. He is good at showing spiritual themes through solemn and melancholy techniques and mirror images. In "Stalker", I always want to find out what kind of spiritual theme Laota wants to express. , Before I got an answer, I tried to understand the film and the film's blueprint from all aspects--the novel "Picnic by the Road", and even I did some understanding of Laota's life experience and his father, I don't Knowing whether my method is right or not, but knowing more about it will make my vision wider, the amount of information more abundant, and perhaps a more objective judgment.
It all benefited from my understanding of poetry, and Laota and his father were poets.
Some people call Laota a poet director, which means that Laota himself is a poet, and that the films he directs have extended the poetic style. I have no doubts about this point. Laota uses black and white and color pictures to a great extent. The long lens with rich metaphor is very similar to the poems that are silently narrating. Regarding the theme, he never explains it in a single word. The room is left to the audience, all of which are the attributes of poetry, the embodiment of polysentiment and obscurity.
In fact, the French film theorist Bazin also discussed the polysentiment of film, and he objected to too much cutting of film (montage technique), because it would impose the director's thoughts and intentions on the audience. It is recommended to use long shots to show the audience as objectively and completely as possible, so that the audience can appreciate it for themselves. So, after watching the movie, under the feeling of Zhiguan, I tried my best to use my imagination and analysis. I think this is in line with Laota's expectations - other people's understanding of his movie, so this movie became the audience's eyes. "Hamlet".
The film is unfolded in a serious and deep style. On the way to find the mysterious house, the three-person group mocks each other and expresses their dissatisfaction and resentment towards this world. The guide tells the writer and professor what happened to his master, another guide "Ye Han", Ye Han and his brother were in the process of completing a lead into the area, his brother lost his legs, Ye Han was in a hurry He entered the house of mystery and made a wish to the house of mystery, hoping that his brother would be as good as ever, but this wish did not come true. After the wild man came out of the house of mystery, he became a rich man. true will. The House of Mysteries can only honor the wishes of the heart, and the wishes after rational correction are invalid, so the savage committed suicide. After all the efforts of the guide, the writer and the professor, they came to the entrance of the mysterious room, but the writer and the professor were afraid, and the guide was disappointed. What writers and professors are afraid of is whether the true will of their hearts, once realized by the mysterious room, will cause some kind of disaster, for themselves or the world. Through this journey, the writer and the professor realized the evil in the depths of human nature. Although bound by morality and reason, the evil of human nature has never been erased from the bottom of their hearts. The previous writer's claim to enter the area for inspiration and the professor's desire to explore the mystery The truth of the district is very likely to be a sane statement, and the thoughts that are really hidden in the depths of the two people's hearts are unknown. The disappointment of the guide is that the person he led gave up his original wish just before the door, which made him very frustrated and felt that he had lost the last value of life.
After various renderings and metaphorical expressions in the early stage, the old tower explained the ending of the three people entering the area. The three returned to the real world. The color of the film also became black and white, but different from the beginning of the film, it will intermittently become Color, does this mean that the returning people have gained insight? The disappointed guide returns home exhausted, under the attentive care of his wife, and the monologue of this ordinary woman may say something. She was warned by her mother when she first married the stalker, but she did not. She did not regret marrying this sneaking guide. Although she often felt pain, it was this pain that made her realize the existence of happiness, the happiness of rejoicing in pain.
What attitude should we take in response to the unknown and our expectations for the unknown, is it fear? Is it accepted? Or escape? Maybe everyone has their own answer. This answer exists in the depths of the heart. In the face of the unknown, human nature will be seen at a glance. The reason, cultivation, and even morality evolved by human civilization are useless. What human beings can do can only be Before reaching the unknown, refuse to touch the unknown, this may be the spiritual theme Laota wants to express through the film, or it is one of the spiritual themes.
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