water nostalgia

Madisen 2022-04-19 09:02:38

It was Andrea and Eugenia who began to appear, travelling halfway through Italy in a mist to see the Virgin in childbirth. Andre refused to go in, and Eugenia expressed her disbelief and thought. Then there is the hotel in Bologna, the sound of rain outside the window, the darkness in the house, and the memory begins to ferment: there are scenes of Russia, women, and children turning back. Andre's pregnant wife.

Andrei attracts Eugenia, but their minds are not together.

Dominic, the lunatic who locked his family in his house for seven years. Light a candle and travel through the water. He lived in the water, and the pond where Andre stood later became his home. There seems to be some kind of belief, a firm belief. But then I didn't really understand the part of the speech and the self-immolation. At last Andrei went to fulfill his request, lighting the candle three times and crossing the pond.

Before Andre fell, I think he, like me, didn't fully understand Dominic's relationship with himself, just to fulfill the entrustment. Then he fell. Joy Split says that Dominic's return to nature is one with Andre's nostalgia; crossing the water is the use of Jesus' treading waves. It should be right to think about the religious feelings of the Russians. But I still don't want to think about it that way.

From the beginning, there are many images that are nostalgic: the poems of the Apennine, the Virgin, Tarkovsky's father, etc. that feel the same as the Russian steppe, etc. There is also the interviewed Sonoyovsky. But it wasn't until nearly halfway through when Eugenia read Andre's letter from home, "If I don't go back to Russia, I will die, those birch forests, the air I breathed in my childhood, I love my motherland," did she begin to vent. , just out of control. Andrei stood in the water, talking to Angela with fables; standing alone on the street, he found his old self in the mirror... He can't go back to Russia, his nostalgia has become fate, inextricable. Finally, in front of the pond, with the dog by his side and the hut behind him. The camera pulls away and it's all a little bit of it in a Roman courtyard.

The rich images, the flying birds and the spilled milk bottle on the ground, are all familiar in the mirror.

The most wonderful thing is the sound of water and the image of water. In the hotel, the rain of the dark night; in Dominic's house, the rain of the leaking house; the spirit of the last rain. These feelings may not be expressed in the form of language, poetry or drama.

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  • Shana 2022-03-21 09:02:48

    When composing the picture in the moving mirror, I get the feeling that it is clearly green on the other side not far away, but it is always separated by a shallow pool of water or mist, so we follow the poet to wander the corridors of time, wandering In the ruins of the dreamland, it is not known where to travel without stopping, and only at certain moments hear a hazy call: "Andre!" - the echo of nostalgia.

  • Noemy 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    It's homesickness that can't go back, and faith that can't be guessed. These two emotions seem to be ingeniously combined. Except for some still amazing scene images and god-like scheduling, I don't like the way this film is handled. Eugenia’s explicit symbol of desire, Dominic’s speech and Andre’s last difficult lighting of candles, are extremely formalistic, almost spreading the truth on the screen, deviating from the aesthetics of the old tower.

Nostalghia quotes

  • Domenico: One drop plus one drop makes a bigger drop, not two.

  • Andrei Gorchakov: We don't know what madness is. They're troublesome, inconvenient, we refuse to understand them. But they're certainly closer to the truth.