backtracking

Mary 2022-04-21 09:02:51

I recently watched the old tower, only 2/7, and I suddenly realized that the emotions of the film are all his personal, although it is also part of the Russian collective. I can see from a distance and substitute in, but I can't integrate. His image poetry system is his context. While pushing the camera, he recites the poem in voiceover, accompanied by the roof leaking and the footsteps of the characters, which is an extremely moving sound and light effect.

I wonder if the old tower felt pain and confusion when he recalled his memories. The more people explore, the greater the internal friction. One is that it is easy to imprison one's thinking in a fixed context, and the other is that it is easy to consume and destroy oneself. Childhood is an endless time and space, and the mother is the one who wanders between trivial matters and emotions. The setting of the father is irrelevant. It is enough that he has a (loving) sight and conversation with the mother.

Although the childhood perspective of the old tower seems to be some silent scenes, the house, the greenery, the fire, the mother's figure... But there are ups and downs all the time. .How many people have memory, how much imagination, how much can people express through material loss and how much.

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Extended Reading
  • Amelie 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    Everyone is obsessed with "understanding" a movie and explaining it with a consistent logic. But Lao Ta himself is actually opposed to deciphering his works. In his view: = artwork, which has no thoughts, meanings, plots, development, endings, and symbols should not be abused. The farther away the audience is from the content, the closer to the image. Therefore, any interpretation of the film is nothing but a self-projection. Emotional and intuitive touch and proximity are enough.

  • Melyssa 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    Take memory in the same way: Bergman's medium is consciousness, from the inside to the outside. There is a strong sense of chaos, the soul is out of the body, and the emotions are infected; Tarkovsky's medium is the environment, the outside world itself. Flowing water, raging fire, mirror surface, the atmosphere is clear, the light and shadow are excellent, but the emotions are difficult to capture. I can appreciate beauty, but not all beauty is what I love. This kind of movie is like peeking into other people's memories. I can have a sense of coupling, as well as a sense of repulsion.

Mirror quotes

  • Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfather's house used to be in which I was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time I try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again. And when I see those walls made of logs and the dark entrance, even in my dream I become aware that I'm only dreaming it. And the overwhelming joy is clouded by anticipation of awakening. At times something happens and I stop dreaming of the house and the pine trees of my childhood around it. Then I get depressed. And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'l be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...

  • Forensic doctor: You know, I fell and found strange things here - roots, bushes... Has it ever occurred to you that plants can feel, know, even comprehend? The trees, this hazelnut bush...

    Natalya: This is an alder tree.

    Forensic doctor: It doesn't matter. They don't run about. Like us who are rushing, fussing, uttering banalities. That's because we don't trust nature that is inside us. Always this suspiciousness, haste, and no time to stop and think.