There is no plot development in "Nostalgia" that caters to the audience. The whole film is a collection of hits against the wall. Negative emotions are its only tone. "Rejection" is its weapon. Hours of stinging the audience to make them feel the torment of being rejected by their homeland. This kind of extreme "denial" attack on the audience doesn't stop even until the end of the credits; the crazy man sets himself on fire in the square. The machine that had been arranged to play the background music in advance actually malfunctioned. I think it's kind of cute to act so resolutely. In this way, Tarkovsky's films are not meant to be "understood", but to make one experience his feelings, the intense feelings of contradiction and tingling. In "Mirror" he also mentioned the incompetence of language, art is indecipherable, and even more so. If we have to use reason to try to understand "Nostalgia", I think it can only be interpreted from a religious point of view: the poet in the opening film refuses to enter the church to see the "Virgin of Childbirth", childbirth is separation, implying that the poet does not want to be separated from his mother, Taco Fsky was also unwilling to be separated from the motherland. When he first saw the madman, he threw out the historical figure of St. Catherine. St. Catherine was a saint in medieval Italy. Her body was in Rome, but her head was stolen by believers back to a church in Italy called Dominique (interestingly, This madman is called Dominic, and he eventually died in Rome.), this is also a return after separation. The madman believes that the end of the world is coming, and locks his wife and children at home for 7 years; this shows how unwilling the madman is to be separated from his family; the three feelings that the poet did not want to be separated from his mother, and the director did not want to be separated from the motherland, which was implied before A kind of theological trinity is formed; even if the entities have to be separated, the spirit is always united. Therefore, although the ending of each character in "Nostalgia" is a tragedy, it presents a kind of spiritual fulfillment. From this point of view, this dull film finally produced a glimmer of hope, but this hope is not in this world, but in the next life.
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