When I was watching the film, I felt like the person was telling his own story, and the guy off the camera and the poet, the protagonist of the film, were somehow one. Tarkovsky expresses his nostalgia and mood through the image of this poet, and he expresses his wishes and regrets through the character's mouth. I must say that I was deeply moved by this movie, every character even touched me, even the few people who taunted Dominic in the hot springs. Ingmar Bergman's assessment of Tarkovsky was particularly fitting to my mood —it
seemed like a miracle to see Tarkovsky's film at first.
Suddenly I found myself in the doorway of a room where no one
had ever handed me the key to this room before.
I've been longing to go into my room and take a peek inside,
and he's able to move freely in it.
I was inspired and motivated that someone had brought out all the things I didn't know how to express for so long.
I think Tarkovsky is the greatest,
he created a new language of cinema,
capturing life as a reflection, as a dream.
What Tarkovsky gave me was a dream, the same tone as a dream, those vague dialogues, those delicate feelings, those bland reality, which made me feel as if I was watching the movie. In one of my own dreams, when I first woke up from the dream, I didn't remember what it was, but with time and thinking, it became more and more clear.
The movie "Nostalgia" is full of poetic and literary atmosphere. The protagonist, a poet, came to Italy to search for the remains of the serf musician Pavel Sosnowski. In the end, the poet died in Italy. In the meantime, the poet found a poem by the musician. The poet recited a poem in the water. "Mad" Dominic preached for 3 days and 3 nights before committing suicide, and his sermons were also poetry. The poem runs through the entire film, which further shows that the film is a portrayal of Tarkovsky himself. Tarkovsky often said that he was a poet rather than a filmmaker. His father, A. Alexandrovich Tarkovsky, was a famous poet in the former Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. Kowski cites his father's poem "Nostalgia" -- the one the poet recited in the water. At the same time, Tarkovsky himself is also an "exile". He left his native Russia and filmed "Nostalgia" in Italy, where he told about his life and faith. Coincidentally, like the protagonist in the film, he did not die until he died. Back to hometown - Russia. The nostalgia in the movie is full of helplessness. The poet Andre recalls the past and his childhood; Dominique hopes to find the Garden of Eden; although the musician returned to his hometown, he eventually committed suicide because he could not stand a foothold. The people in "Nostalgia" are helpless. They have no ability to change the status quo or they don't know how to change. They are helpless to their nostalgia, and they are all swallowed up by nostalgia in the end. Their helplessness is also the director's helplessness. Tarkovsky left Russia because the Russian International Film Commission had tortured him for many years. The Russian Film Commission had been suppressing and slandering Tarkovsky. In this environment, Tarkovsky felt powerless. Pushed out of Russia by some. He left Russia, he loved his homeland, but had to complete his career in other lands. He turned his abstract nostalgia into a figurative "Nostalgia". To express his patriotic feelings through movies, he also injected his deep helplessness into the movie characters. Takes us into his own "hidden, dry fountain."
----- "Once again as a child I was sick
with hunger and fear. I peeled
a crust from my lips and licked them. I still remember
the taste of it, salty, cold"
The deepest impression of "Nostalgia" to me is not those complicated symbols and profound meanings. What "Nostalgia" attracts me most is the slow and still fragments. Time seems to have no effect here, the sky seems to have no day and night here, the sun and the moon are both dim and indistinguishable at all. In my opinion, "Nostalgia" is a film with a simple form, and the simple form better reflects the artistic conception of the film. Nostalgia is an emotional film, and the author himself commented that it "was filled with a deep, gradually exhausting separation of life and death at all times, a feeling of being far away from home and relatives and friends." I think it conveys these strong emotions. It was the slow and still images—the dreams of Russian fields and houses. Tarkovsky often pinned complex metaphors on simple things, and in the film the poet's nostalgia for his hometown also turned into a house, a river, and the dog. This scene is fixed at the beginning of the movie, and it appears many times as a poet's dream later in the movie. These refined symbols must have remained in Tarkovsky's heart for a long time, and it was his deepest impression of Russia that we can feel such a strong and depressive emotion, and we will be affected by this emotion. When watching a movie, there is a sense of illogicality, you can't predict what the author is going to do next, and the movie doesn't explain why and how to continue. Tarkovsky shot "Nostalgia" in his own way of expression. He doesn't seem to care about the viewer's perspective, as if the movie was made for himself. He will never drag the audience into the movie, but needs the audience themselves. Slowly explore into this dream. The layout of the film, although it seems illogical, reflects a high degree of reality, such as the belated music of Dominic's suicide, the distant sound of a chainsaw on the street, all make people absolutely that this is not just a movie shot, it seems It is the real scene we have experienced, and those artificially created accidents are not abrupt at all. Every thing, every sentence is reasonable, it will happen, and people will have a kind of "soul resonance". "Nostalgia", like Tarkovsky's other films, records every real moment. The film is pieced together from moment to moment, unpredictable but very real. "Placing a person in a changing environment" is Tarkovsky's way, and it is also a true portrayal of the existence of man himself in the world.
"Nostalgia" is not a movie just used to express the author's nostalgia for his hometown. He wraps the bland reality with a series of symbols, making the film full of hidden and deep imagination, and making the film full of deep thinking about life and the destination of life. There is a scene in "Nostalgia" that has to be mentioned, in which the poet walks through a dry hot spring with a candle in hand. From the poet lighting the candle to the candle falling down, the entire 9-minute scene, when watching this part, is not only a test of my patience, but also a baptism for me. At that time, I was as anxious as the poet, and desperately hoped that he could successfully complete this ceremony. Every time the candle went out, I was in a great indifference, as if I had entered a movie and became a poet. Tarkovsky took 9 minutes to shoot a scene, a series of simple actions, no doubt he regarded this scene as very important, in my opinion, Tarkovsky has regarded the ceremony in this film as a a real ceremony. I don't think this shot can be talked about alone, it's one and parallel to Dominic's suicide. When the poet knew that Dominic was preaching in the square for three days and three nights, he changed his schedule - he was going to go back to Russia immediately. He gave up answering his hometown immediately. In order to complete the task given to him by Dominic, the prophecy "You have to walk across the water with a candle in hand. If the candle does not go out, mankind will be saved." There is obviously a strong religious connotation here--- - End times and redemption. In fact, I think, Dominic is also the embodiment of Tarkovsky to a certain extent. Dominic was in his hometown, but he was not understood, and Tarkovsky was forced to leave Russia because he was not understood. The poet is weak, while Dominic is a "madman" and an actor. Tarkovsky used Dominic's mouth to express his feelings of redemption and belief. "Go back to where you used to be, go back to the wrong starting point, go back to the foundation of life", at that moment, I think it was Tarkovsky preaching, and he shouted out his heart through Donimick's. At the beginning, the poet vaguely accepted Dominica's invitation, and later, infected by the religious devotion, he became Dominica's only friend and comrade. When Dominic completed the preaching ceremony he had planned on the square, the poet returned to Dominica's hometown and lit a faint candle in the cold weather. At this moment, the poet and Dominic finally returned to the same destination and became like-minded. By. The poet performs this holy ritual in a hot pool that has no water, passing through St. Catherine's hot springs. He finally succeeded when he finally walked through with a burning candle
"Nostalgia" is full of destiny. People cannot exist alone. Everyone has a relationship with the whole world, and is intertwined with people who are far or near. In an unpredictable environment, human subjectivity is weak, and a powerful destiny dictates people. The last sentence of the movie, "This reminds me of my mother," makes people feel a sense of enlightenment, but it is unclear what it is. This sentence connects the viewer with the film.
Everyone is a wanderer, but everyone has a different definition of "hometown". Some people's hometown is the place where they were born, some people's hometown is "wonderland", some people's hometown is memories, and some people's hometown is the place where they were born. Our hometown is mother ••••••When we haven't found where we belong, we are all in different places, we are all wanderers. Nostalgia is broad, and Tarkovsky is a well-deserved master. If someone asks me how the movie "Nostalgia" is, I can only say "it's a very good movie" because I really can't find a word that matches it.
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