The beginning of the film is talking to himself, the protagonist always walks slowly and whispers, the tone is like a dream. Needless to say, Tarkovsky's long mirror, the protagonist swayed in front of me for more than 20 minutes before I saw what he looked like, and I had to admire the director's skill and self-confidence.
Then turn to the interior to start the conversation. It is also mostly a person talking about household chores in a tone similar to self-talk, and then the camera almost does not change, and other people enter the camera as if they were directed . So it took about an hour for me to understand the relationship between these people.
Tarkovsky's films, although very silent, always break out at the right time. Such as the accidental injury of the little boy, such as the sudden fall of the postman Otto, such as the overturning of the milk bottle, such as the collapse of the wife and the final madness of the protagonist. The sudden movement in the still image injects some vitality into the film, so that it will not be dull to the end.
"Nostalgia" ends with a dream, while "Sacrifice" has many interspersed nightmares as the source of the story's great turning point. Tarkovsky's dreams are so obscure that I can't figure out the former dream at all, and the latter dream is only after that turning point has taken place.
"sacrifice" The characters are all neurotic. The sensitive wife, the naked daughter who ran after the chicken(?), the Otto who seemed to know something, the Alexander who liked to talk to himself and finally went crazy, and the most mysterious maid. Although I can't understand them, I still have great admiration for the sensitive and easily collapsed world they built as the main body of the film.
The story of "Sacrifice" is simple, but understanding the dialogue and metaphor is beyond my ability. For me, appreciating the director's lens and trying to understand, this movie can already give me enough feelings.
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