I opened my eyes in surprise a few times, I couldn't help but shed tears a few times, and a few times I couldn’t look at the screen anymore, but this kind of ambivalence attracted me eagerly to see those corners covered by time. .
What makes me so fascinated yet so afraid?
Art cannot explain that it can only tell, just as Tarkovsky said, he is showing life, not discussing. What he gives is not a conclusion or a detail to discuss, but a way of looking at oneself.
The movie is spliced by scattered shots, which are often blurred and make people feel in the clouds, but there is another hand that has been firmly pulling me down the road clearly.
The world in "Mirror"
Tarkovsky once talked about "Mirror" like this: "Don't imagine "Mirror" too complicated, it is just a straight line simple story, nothing is easier to read than this."
Taco In "Mirror", Vovsky tells and recalls many fragments of his life. These fragments are related to each other and permeate each other, so that it is difficult to distinguish between us and deeply confused. When people talk about "Mirror", they often say It is "non-narrative". After all, those stories are not our experience, and even very different from ours, but this will not prevent me from feeling the beauty of this movie, as well as the power, belief, and courage of exploration that this beauty conveys. This also makes the "Mirror" "It is possible to be read.
Tarkovsky once defended "Mirror" by saying: "If two people can experience the same thing, even if only once, they will be able to understand each other, even if one of them lived in the Paleolithic age and the other It grew up in the age of electrification. God has empowered mankind to understand and appreciate the common impulses of mankind-including one's own and other people's."
Although our experiences are so different, we have experienced many of the same things in different ways. These things are what makes a person a must. We think, live, and move in it, and Tarkovs Ji uses his lens to freeze his thinking, life and emotions, and become his "sculpture of time."
"Mirror" tells the story of the director Tarkovsky, from the divorce of his childhood parents to his current emotional conflicts, from the very harsh social environment of the Soviet Union in the 1930s, to wartime chaos, the departure of relatives, and then To the moment he made the movie. Tarkovsky deliberately uses the same actor to play different roles at different moments. Both his mother and wife use Margarita Terekhova as the actor. He also used the same actor as his son when he was a child. Many of the obvious fantasy passages above make this movie more dreamy.
*The main character
mother Maria, her colleagues and others also call her Masha, Marousia; the
protagonist Aleksei;
wife Natalya; the
protagonist’s boyhood Alyosha; the
protagonist’s son Ignat.
In these five roles, the main images of mother Maria and wife Natalya, as well as the protagonist’s juvenile image and his own son all use the same actors, but the protagonist himself has never appeared directly, that is to say, these five roles, There are actually only two actors. The distinction between Maria and Natalya can almost only rely on Maira smoking. In addition, the old image of Maira's mother, Tarkovsky's own mother Tarkovsky personally starred. The protagonist's childhood image is a cute child.
In addition, the characters that have repeatedly appeared in different scenes in the movie include his father, Maria’s husband; the protagonist’s sister Marina; two women, one of which is obviously simulating the image of Akhmatova who is about 50 years old; A doctor.
Other characters that appear only once in the movie include his mother’s colleague Lisa, a pair of middle-aged Spanish brothers and sisters, the protagonist’s military training instructor when he was young, and some teenagers who received military training together, including the protagonist’s first love girl, war A neighbor of the protagonist’s family in the period.
A large number of poems by Tarkovsky’s father appear in the movie as background voices, which are recited by the poet himself.
"Mirror" is divided into 14 paragraphs by some researchers (not counting the title subtitles). The time is generally divided into three periods before the war, during the war, and after the war, corresponding to the 1930s, 1940s and 60s, which is more reasonable. The method of distinguishing is based on the protagonist’s own past and present time periods as the standard, plus some imagined scenes and documentary fragments, there are 16 sections in total.
1. Treating stuttering
After the war, now; the real scene, the color
Ignat turns on the TV, is a film to treat stuttering. The doctor uses suggestion and guidance to treat the stuttering problem of a tall young man, and finally the young man is fluent But he said loudly: "I can speak!" Tarkovsky seemed to be using this video to express his feelings of breaking his long aphasia and bravely facing his inner heart.
2. Opening subtitles
Tarkovsky still uses Bach's music with the opening subtitles, using the 16th "Dasalte Jahrvergangenist" of the pipe organ book, "The old days are gone forever", BWV.614.
3. The burning house
before the war, in the past; the real scene recalled, the colorful
mother Maria talked with a doctor in the field. The voice-over is the protagonist himself, and the protagonist has always appeared as a voice-over since then. A. Tarkovsky’s poem also appeared for the first time.
The mirror first appeared when a few children ran out to look at the burning wooden house. It is the interior of the old house in childhood, the mother Maria and the young protagonist, and the protagonist's sister.
The image in the mirror gradually became clearer. A goose-yellow halo enveloped the room. Two children stood at the door, one tall and the other short. Glass water tanks stood quietly on the ground. There were debris on the table next to the door, and two pots hung on the wall.
The whole scene is peaceful and disturbing, gestating a kind of outbreak, hinting at the coming of war.
The war is like the burning old house, no one can save, no one can escape, no one can resist, and can only watch the disaster come and experience helplessly.
The camera is still in the wooden room with soaring flames, as if it is a metaphor for the never ending of war. Even if it is over, it will be burned out as a high price.
[House on fire]
4. Mother washes her hair
before the war, past; imagined scene, black and white
young protagonist sleeps on the bed, the colorful scene turns to black and white, the wind sweeps over the bushes, the owls chirping slightly lonely, the child calls Dad sat up from the bed, and his father helped his mother to freshen up. The black and white images clearly had a dreamy temperament, and the sound of water and the environment were unusually loud.
Mother straightened up with wet hair and walked through the collapsed house. She walked through the mirror, and water droplets kept falling from above. She pressed the towel on her body with both hands, and when she appeared in the mirror again, her face was instantly aging.
Time is always lost at a rapid rate when we are not paying attention.
In a day, the number of turns of the hands on the clock depicts the cycle of time, that is its width, and the length of time is shown on the human body. The change of the mother's face is the speed of time, and it is also the surprise in the child's heart at the mother's aging.
If someone pays attention to his mother's hand, he might think that his firm skin will become loose one day, and age spots will gradually grow, with prominent blood vessels, which are deeply implanted in the body like the veins of tree roots.
Do people have reincarnation? I don’t know. If there is, I must be the reincarnation of mother.
Memories, imagination, and dreams are intertwined in this scene. The collapsed house seems to imply a collapse, and the appearance of the mother in the past and the present one after another also hints at the protagonist’s confusion.
5. The quarrel on the phone
After the war, now; real scenes,
the interior of the room was shot in color from the protagonist’s first perspective, and the poster of "Andrei Rublev" hung on the wall is his portrait of the Trinity . The protagonist and his mother are talking on the phone. The protagonist mentions that he has not spoken to anyone for three days, which seems to imply a connection with 1. The protagonist said that he dreamed of the house that was on fire when he was a child and asked his father when he would leave. This was obviously taking over the above part.
He went on to say: "Why do we always quarrel? I apologize if I did something wrong." "I always say that you are like my mother." The
wife looked up at the world in the mirror, with an arrogant expression, and seemed to be indifferent to everything her husband said. The protagonist never appeared on the camera, as if he was reading a narration, making his wife feel sad and happy.
This arrangement makes the woman feel lonely and helpless with sadness and reservedness. Two people who cannot talk can only communicate through the illusory world in the mirror.
She has been reluctant to look at him on the camera side, speaking like a self-talk.
She walked from the mirror to the window and looked further away. The glass reflected her tired cheeks, completely different from the stubborn sneer just now. A few faded red plants made her face more beautiful and fragile.
Two people so close are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, even if they climb up and look at each other, they can't see each other. This kind of alienation comes from their attitude towards the world. One is in the mirror and the other is outside. In fact, they both want to be close to each other, but sometimes men and women cannot communicate.
During the conversation, it was mentioned that Lisa, a colleague of his mother who was in the printing factory, had died, and the following memories were introduced.
6. The printing house
before the war; in the past; the real scene in the memory, the black and white
mother thought that there was a mistake in printing. It is said that Stalin's name Stalin was mistakenly printed as Shralin, which means "stool" in Russian. She pretended to be After the sudden heavy rain rushed to the printing factory to check, Tarkovsky used a hand-held long lens to shoot, and the black and white images looked depressed and anxious.
When it was finally found that there was no error, the mother told Lisa the whole story, and the two laughed. But later Lisa accused her mother of being too independent and even a little overbearing, like the sister of Captain Li Bokin in Dostoevsky's "Devil", the two quarreled.
Mother went to take a bath, but the water stopped suddenly and she laughed in the bathroom.
After her mother was sure that the printing was correct, she walked through a long corridor with windows on both sides, the light intertwined. The long shots are accompanied by the verses of A. Tarkovsky, about encounters, waiting, weather and destiny. Whether it is a sudden heavy rain, a shower head that suddenly stops water, and the power that can make people scared just because of a typo, it is an existence that we cannot control like the weather. We live in it as if we are living in it. The spider web of fate.
Such a scene has been entangled in my fantasy and dreams, and now it appears in the movie, which is really surprising. Here, the mother is more like a figure in Da Vinci's painting, a person controlled by fate. The bright corridor makes people unable to see the end, full of beautiful expectations of life, but no one knows what is behind the door at the end, whether it is dark, or another corridor.
This is my constant trouble, there is no end in my imagination.
This segment ends with a scene of burning fire, suggesting that it is also a memory.
[Mother runs to the printing house]
7. The quarrel between the protagonist and his wife, the Spanish neighbor
during or after the war, now; the real scene, interspersed with documentary clips, the
wife’s first appearance, she is looking in the mirror, and the protagonist says he saw When the wife often thinks of the face of her childhood mother, the two argue about the character of the protagonist. The protagonist said that he sympathized with his mother and his wife, while the wife said that the protagonist could not get along with people normally.
A Spanish neighbor speaks Spanish, imitating the actions of a bullfighter on TV. During the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the Communist International evacuated a group of Spanish children to the Soviet Union. After that, they lived in the Soviet Union, grew up, and even got married and had children. They could neither truly integrate into the Soviets nor return to them. Motherland Spain. Who would have thought that 15 years later, Tarkovsky himself would become such a nostalgic exotic traveler.
With the memory of the Spanish neighbor, a documentary about the Spanish Civil War began to appear. People ran on the street, planes dropped bombs, relatives kissed the evacuated child goodbye, cries and farewell sounds, and finally a long train whistle. , A little girl turned her head to face the camera, the happy expression on her face suddenly changed to horror and confusion, her big eyes were completely puzzled. The cruel war not only caused deaths and injuries, but also caused countless people to lose their homes and their wives were scattered, which cast a shadow over the young hearts of many children. The use of this documentary here can be said to be a very deep and ingenious accusation.
The following documentary fragment may be the most wonderful moment in the whole movie. In the silence, a huge stratospheric hot air balloon that fills the entire scene slowly rises, and two smaller balloons slowly rise from the sides. Landing slowly.
Humans are manipulating this behemoth that is thousands of times larger than their own body, flying to the high sky. In the sunset, the camera slowly follows the auxiliary balloon, and at this time the finale of Pegolesi’s "Mourning for the Virgin" sounded. Chorus, my body will eventually decay, and my soul will live forever in heaven because of the Lord.
This is the second time I shed tears because of the movie's touch.
The first time I remembered things, the world gave me the feeling that it was huge. At that time, everything was unattainable, nothing was marginal, and nothing was predictable.
Maybe it’s fine when you grow up. When you grow up, you don’t need to stand on tiptoe to get stuff, you don’t need to fold a bed sheet and jump around, and you don’t have to always listen to adults saying that this kid doesn’t understand.
With the passage of time, this sense of insignificance has increased day by day, and a feeling of powerlessness has become more and more intense. The power of destiny restraining me made me breathless, and I began to learn to believe. I believe that some things need to be given up, some times need to go with the flow, and some pasts need to be forgotten.
I still remember a car accident when I was out with my mother. For the first time, the thought of death strangled my throat, my tears were completely uncontrollable, and the blood dripped from my legs without any feeling.
The second time, my father had a life-threatening operation. He didn't say anything beforehand, and only told me after the operation was successful. I didn't say anything at the time, and walked into the room quietly, shaking.
And when I saw the big balloon in the movie, the tears fell like this, it was a kind of helplessness in the face of life, the fear of death.
Experience can only be realized.
After a documentary celebrating the success of the documentary, the camera returns to the protagonist Ignat. He is reading a book about Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo proposed the idea of a hot air balloon around 1550. The book contains the Virgin and An oil painting by her mother, Santa Ana, and gestures that often appear in medieval religious paintings.
[Hot air balloon floating in the air]
8. Ignat reading notes
wartime or after war, now; imagined scene, colorful
wife knocked over her bag, Ignat helped her clean up and she left, Ignat turned around but found that there was no one just now There were two women in his room. An elderly servant left with a tray, and another woman who looked like Ahmadova in her 50s asked him to read a letter from Pushkin to a friend in 1836, which discussed To understand the similarities and differences between Russian and Western Christian civilizations, it expresses the author’s view that although Russia has a historical position different from that of the West, it has the same rights to freedom and so on. When reading the letter, behind Ignat is another Photo of a poetess Tsvetayeva. When Ignat finished reading the letter, an old woman in the image of an elderly Maira knocked on the door. After he went to open the door and came back, he found that the woman like Akhmatova had disappeared. There was still a mark on the table where she left the tea cup. And this mark quickly evaporated and disappeared.
The protagonist calls Ignat, recalls his first love, and introduces the next scene.
[The teacup print quickly evaporates]
9. Military training
wartime, the past; the real scene of memories, color
The first thing that appears in the scene is the protagonist’s first love girl, a little girl with red hair and blisters on her mouth. The music is "They Tell Me Your Powerful Power" in Act 4 of Pushel's "Queen of India". A child who always believed that turning backwards should be a 360-degree turn pulled off the grip of the grenade. He is an orphan caused by war, just like Ivan in Tarkovsky's lens. The seemingly indifferent military training instructor rushed to the grenade, using his body to try to protect other people, the camera gradually narrowed in the sound of the heartbeat, and the scars left by the war on the instructor's head were clearly visible.
The orphan walked up the mountain alone, interspersed with the documentary of the Soviet Red Army crossing the Sivas Lake in Crimea. People dragged supplies, papers floating on the water, and countless footprints were left on the muddy shallows. Against the backdrop of the vast horizon in the distance, A. Tarkovsky’s verse resounded, “There is no death in the world, everything is immortal”.
The child reached out and grabbed the bird resting on his head. The documentary turned into the Soviet armored unit that liberated Prague in World War II, the reporter who photographed the dead bodies of war criminals, the mushroom cloud of the nuclear test on Bikini Atoll in 1946, and the Treasure Island incident in 1969. China and the Soviet Union in the conflict, the fists held high like the ocean, the countless hands clenching Chairman Mao's quotations, and so on.
10. Father and son reunited
during the war, the past; the real scene of the memory, the color
noise accompanied by war and conflict suddenly disappeared, the father came back to visit the boyhood protagonist and his sister, originally the sister was saying that he would steal his brother 7 The book about Leonardo in the book tells everyone that the two children suddenly forgot about this and ran to their father. The father held them, the music played, the aria in Bach's Matthew Passion, "Undsieheda! Der Vorhangim Tempel...", behold, the temple collapsed! This is the wrath of heaven after the crucifixion of Christ. Then came Da Vinci's painting "Genevrade Benci", very much like the face of Maria just appeared.
11. Quarrel
after the war, now; real scene, black and white
The protagonist and his wife quarrel about who should raise Ignat and his future. The wife accuses the protagonist of not reconciling with his mother. Outside the window, Ignat is burning some branches. This is the third time a raging flame has appeared in the film. The protagonist and his wife suddenly talked about the angel appearing in the bushes like fire to guide Moses. This conversation quickly introduced the protagonist's memories.
12. Childhood dream
before the war, in the past; imagined scenes, black and white,
this section begins with the protagonist’s self-report, here is still in color, he tells that he always repeats the same dream, and then a black and white jug appears, and the young protagonist walks by In the bushes, walking towards the house where he was born, a child's voice suddenly appeared in the darkness, "Mom", corresponding to the call of "Dad" who started a dream in 4, the glass broke and a rooster flew out. As in 4, the wind swept across the bushes, the curtains rolled, the branches trembling, the trunks bent, the rain fell and disappeared without warning, and the sound of the environment seemed very unreal. The child tried to open a door but was unsuccessful. The door opened. The mother was picking up potatoes and a dog walked out of the house.
13. Selling jewelry
wartime, in the past; the real scene recalled, colorful
Maria intends to sell jewelry to the neighbor to subsidize the family, the neighbor looked arrogant and rather unfriendly. The young protagonist Aloysha sat alone in the living room, looking at herself in the mirror, and the music was still Purcell in 9.
The child stared at himself in the mirror, with young, clear eyes, the girl with blisters on her mouth appeared in the mirror. Soft cheeks, soft hair, burning twigs in his hands.
They say that children don’t understand love, but why does the girl whom she liked in childhood always keeps appearing in front of her? The first person made him feel special. Even in the chaos of war, he could remember the blisters on her mouth in the dark. Together with such imperfections, they constituted fond memories of childhood.
Then, the light went out. The scene of milk dripping on the ground appears in the lens, echoing the memories of the protagonist's childhood in 3.
The hostess arrogantly tried on jewelry in the mirror, and took the protagonist mother and son to see her own child. Mother Maria seemed a little impatient. The hostess even asked Maria to help her kill a rooster for cooking at night. Maria tried to refuse, because the hostess said that she was disgusting, but she would feel the same, but the arrogant hostess has always been A posture of superiority. In fear and disgust, Maria took the axe, held the cock, and raised her head. The indifference in Da Vinci's painting in the painting 10 appeared, and an expression of anger and arrogance appeared on her face again. Comparing the arrogant face of the neighbor's woman in the mirror, the mother's strength and unyielding are plumped.
The mother took the protagonist and left angrily. The voiceover is a poem by A. Tarkovsky.
14. A series of reminiscence scenes
before the war, in the past; imagined scenes, black and white and color, the
first segment is in 13, before they leave the neighbor’s house, the father’s face appears first, and then the mother floats in the air, Bach’s crowd hymn prelude sounded again, his father said: "calm down, all right." mother said: ".. I want to see you, not just me sick ...... I finally flew up ...... I love you"
in the back In A. Tarkovsky’s poem, we once again see the wind passing over the bushes. The poem is about dreams, memory and forgetting, life, exploration and hope. The passage where the wind passes over the bushes is not exactly the same as that inside 12. Many childhood memories of that old house were also instantly awakened, the white gauze with patterns fluttered, a dazzling beam of light flickered in the dark, and walking past, it was a child holding a can of milk.
I still remember that most of the milk I drank when I was young was sold in glass bottles, and the remaining milk after pouring made the glass shine with milky white light, and then slowly slipped from the wall to the bottom.
In the era of peace, the milk was about to be spilled, and the kitten licked the milk spilled on the table. During the war, it could only be recalled by the white mark on the bottom of the bottle.
The black-and-white picture suddenly turned into color, the young protagonist was swimming, the young mother was washing clothes, the old house was full of beautiful spring scenery, and the dog in 12 also appeared in a young image.
That is the wooden house of childhood. The Fuji roof, the wide corridor, the wide view, the buckwheat flowers outside the house and the wind shaking, make the whole childhood full of pure colors.
Tarkovsky had a lot of trouble to fill the front of the house with white buckwheat flowers. But that was his childhood.
I used to spend my childhood in a small building full of the decayed fragrance of wood.
There are wooden houses from the inside out, and a lot of wood chips and sand are always dropped when the windows are opened. A few kids running up and down madly made it groan like it couldn't help it. Occasionally, a few mice ran away in the clutter. There are also broken chairs creaking, the stove is steaming, the music from the radio is mixed with noise, and two sparrows are gnawing at the bun dregs on the windowsill...at night, there are bats under low altitude. They whizzed by silently, and when they got closer, they could still hear the sound of their wings flapping in the air.
I like to look up at the sky under the tall sycamore trees, and the clouds are tumbling and drifting past, until I can’t open my eyes with tingling pain. Whenever the pomegranate bears fruit, I steal a few to try it out while the great mother-in-law is away.
Those laughter and houses have always been swaying in my memories.
In this way, at the end of the film, I saw the sunlight for the first time, shining in diagonally from the window, with the warm color of happiness, and the puppy crawling around on the cabinet.
All dreams, sweet dreams, and nightmares are over, all in the morning, after the long rainy season, there should be such light coming in.
There is a book turned by the wind on the windowsill, and the young protagonist walks towards his mother, but at this time the mother is the image of an old man.
[Reminiscence scene]
15. The death of the protagonist
After the war, now; imagined scene, color
In an imaginary room, the protagonist is lying on the bed behind the screen. The doctor thought this was just an ordinary case. The woman like Akhmatova in 8 mentioned a sore throat in 5 and aphasia. The doctor talked about conscience and recollection. Another woman talked about guilt. Is the director’s conscience guilty for his memories? The protagonist said, I just want to be happy. He gently grabbed a bird by the bed and said, everything will be fine, he lifted the bird and let it fly.
16. The ending in the field
before the war, past; imagined scene, color
close to dusk, quiet and serene field, the opening ceremony of Bach’s Passion of John sounded, the mother gently lay on her father’s chest, when the father asked her, When you wanted a boy or a girl, the mother didn't say anything. She lowered her head and laughed, but her tears seemed to be streaming down. She turned her head and looked into the distance.
At this time the chorus entered and began a magnificent chorus, "God, our Lord, your glory is everywhere, vast and vast." The scene suddenly shifted to the dense forest. The elderly mother took the young children through the woods to wash clothes. The lens shot the bushes, broken trees, abandoned wells and water tanks in the forest. The elderly Maria took the two children out of the woods. The camera cuts back to her mother again. She turned her head back, as if returning to reality from her imagination of the future, she smiled, and then turned her head to look into the distance. Maria took the child and went on, looking back and seeing the young Maira standing alone under the telephone pole shaped like a cross, the vast field, the forest in the distance, everything was shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun. The chorus ended and the child shouted. The camera retreated into the forest.
[Ending in the Field]
Memories-Dreams in the Mirror
Schopenhauer said: "The effect of life is like a crude mosaic painting, which can't produce the effect when you look up close. There is hardly any beauty in this, unless you pull a certain distance away. "
If you only listen to one sound at a time, it's like Ingmar Bergman's movie, natural sound, quiet shot, but the memory is more real and moving than the movie. No need to build, no photography skills, no on-site deployment, everything is an instant beauty, fleeting and carrying irreplaceable eternity.
Memory is the theme of "Mirror", and memory is an important means of expression by Tarkovsky. It belongs to the memories of childhood and the memories of yesterday. "Only moments are present", so we often desire to regain that period of life. Only when it is no longer possible to go back, we can begin to face up to it and begin to cherish it.
Can time be discarded? Tarkovsky believes that when everyone is happy, time is useless. It is just a concept.
But in reality, time is not a long river, but a knife, which will leave scars, and these scars will accompany us for life.
*Dreamland A
child woke up from his sleep, the wind was pressing over the bushes, the father looked at the child, and the mother was washing her hair. When the mother got up, she was the only one left. She tried to pull her hair away and walked towards the mirror. The peeling ceiling began to fall. , The rain fell from above.
For the first time, I looked at the mottled falling ceiling and cried. Can't bear to watch.
Have you seen the world when it collapsed, I have seen it. Just like this dream, it was as quiet as a sorrow. Just with the effort of bowing your head, the world has become completely different.
The same dreams have been entangled in my dreams. They are disturbing, fearful, indistinct, not even nightmares. The noisy shouts buzzed in my ears, and finally turned into sharp tinnitus. The entire space was squeezed towards me. From all directions, the body could disappear in an instant, becoming a dust.
Then the noisy cicadas pierced my ears in the summer. It was a vicious day in the sun. I walked through the empty building. There was no one and no sound in the whole yard. The pain hit my whole body, making me unconscious, and my stomach seemed to be melting, penetrating through the limbs.
Many people spin around in my head and finally become blank.
[Collision in the dreamland]
*Mengjing Er the
wind overwhelmed the bushes, and the child walked through the bushes and walked towards the wooden house. On the long window, the curtain swayed as if it couldn't bear something. On the eaves, the rain seemed to be starting again. The door that the child hadn't opened suddenly opened, the mother was peeling potatoes, and the dog came out.
Memory sometimes closes the door to me. I would forget the phone number, the article I just recited, the appearance of my friend, the things to do, like a person who was suddenly thrown out of the house. At that time, I seemed to be an unidentified wandering spirit that did not belong to this world.
And those things that I want to remember but always forget, will come to my mind in a flash, regardless of location, regardless of time, just so abruptly squeeze in, leaving me lost for a long time.
The world in the mirror in memory is more like an illusion, things that happen can disappear, but things that don't exist can instantly fill the picture.
The mirror is hypocrisy, the mirror is phantom, the
mirror is escape, and the mirror makes no secret of it.
The square inch in the frame can accommodate the whole world.
Mirrors in the movie are everywhere, hanging on walls or windows with faint reflections, which seem to make people escape, and carefully examine the figures of people running away. Does the movie record our memories? Perhaps "Mirror" is Tarkovsky's examination of his own memory. He was asking himself: Which ones are memories and which ones are dreams?
How are our memories preserved? Do we have to use something else to evoke our own memories? The protagonist recalled the appearance of his mother back then, thinking of the appearance of his wife, the appearance of Leonardo. Memory passes through the river of time and connects us with our past. Will we never be able to escape our past because of this?
The protagonist dreams time and time again about the childhood house, the milk jug, the sight of the wind passing over the bushes, the mirror in the first dream, and the final scene even confuses his mother’s face when he was young and old. All this comes from Because of the imprecision of our memory. Our memory is a feeling, not an exact copy, as if we don't remember that a 6-7 level wind blows one day, and we only have the scene of the branches shaking and falling down when the wind passed over the bushes that day.
With the passage of time, our memory gradually becomes blurred, like a newspaper that is gradually yellowing, fades away from color, and finally, cannot even be distinguished from the unreality of dreams, and becomes as moving as those long-lived dreams.
Memories will even remind us of a situation similar to fantasy, just like the Akhmatova seen by Ignat in the film. It is this fantasy experience that hints at our director’s understanding of reading Akhmatova and Pushkin. experience.
These inaccuracy and unreality are also the beauty of memories, dreams, and illusions in the mirror. We don’t have the same experience as Tarkovsky, but we can share his feelings, share his sight of the branches swaying in the wind, and share those warm, sorrow, guilt, and angry moments. As a lady wrote to Tarkovsky in a letter: "In that dark theater, staring at the screen that was lit by your genius, at that moment, it was the first time in my life. I feel that I am not alone.".
Love and sacrifice
mother occupies a large part of Tarkavsky's memory, so that the movie tells about the mother a lot of time.
Maybe only a woman like the mother in the movie has the power to survive such difficult years. Her colleague complained about her temper, saying that if something made her unhappy, she would assume it had never happened. The mother's hair was messed up, she was speechless in surprise, like someone who was forced to desperately. I am so familiar with such a face.
Next, the mother went to take a bath, and the water stopped midway, and she smiled.
When a woman walks on the edge of collapse for too long, her nerves are always in a state of high tension, very sensitive, and her body is tense like a clockwork alarm clock. The broken water is like the string of the body suddenly broken, the feeling that "words can not soothe, the handkerchief can not be wiped off."
In the film, the mother is always waiting, sitting on the fence and waiting, but always waiting. , Looking out the window, there is a crock on the bench, and the rain slides in.
In the end, her love became the buckwheat in front of the house, and her sacrifice was like the last bird that was released.
The world is a mirror
Maybe everyone in "Mirror" will tell differently, just like different people standing in front of a mirror will have different scenes. The world is like a mirror, reflecting people's memories and fantasy, reflecting people's ugliness and humbleness, reflecting the sadness and laughter in every corner.
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