"Andrei Rublev"

Arturo 2022-04-19 09:02:13

The first film I saw during the Shanghai Film Festival, the film I have seen that shows the deepest suffering in the most realistic way.
The film is composed of several stories—or, in other words, fragments or silhouettes—that are directly or indirectly experienced by the icon painter Andrei Rublev, which is full of symbolic, obscure, and stagnant meanings. Perhaps the temperature of the air conditioner is too low, and the cold is hard to resist.
adventure, death. Jealousy, break up. Doubtful, lost. aggression, slaughter. Everything seems to come from fate and is irresistible.
Facts are by no means as depicted in most literary works or in many serious history books, where the ups and downs are dominated by the talents of the heavens, and the ordinary people are mediocre. Rather, geniuses are often more at the mercy of circumstances, and as Tolstoy reiterated in War and Peace, great men are merely historical labels. And ordinary people also have the thinking and struggles of ordinary people, otherwise what would happen, all living beings are suffering.
The director obviously knows that any individual is powerless under the torrent of history, the iron fist of the country, and the mercy of fate. After suffering, or suffering, what keeps ants-like people alive?
The answer is religion. In those days, religion gave people the power to live. Today, religion has faded out of people’s lives (except for greenery), and the past is hard to follow. Without seeing it with our own eyes, it is difficult for us to appreciate how precious the only pure spiritual comfort that religion once brought to people is. Through this film, we can finally have a little bit of it. fuzzy perception. At the end of the film, when the bell is cast and people laugh and bow down, I think the bell is the will of God.
God guides devout people to endure the sufferings of this world in order to wash away their sins in exchange for eternal happiness in the kingdom of heaven - a reward I don't know and don't believe enough in - all I know is that we inherit what they created after enduring, With that said, thanks to Almighty God.

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Andrei Rublev quotes

  • Kirill: Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth and the thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth. Walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes but know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth before the difficult days come and the years draw nigh when thou shalt say "I have no pleasure in them." Remember thy creator before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken or the pitcher shattered at the fountain or the wheel broken at the well. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. "Vanity of vanities," saith the preacher; "All is vanity."

  • Andrei Rublyov: I am what I am. You couldn't teach me integrity.