Tarkovs’ films are not only about the structure of memory, but also about the gain and loss of human personality. , This is still a film about creation and Russia.
Recall the plot at the beginning of the film, documentary style, it seems to be a reminder of the whole film. A female speech orthodontist is treating her patient, and she finally made him clear I said "I-can-say". What does this mean? I can say it-this is the brave voice of the artist in the era of stagnation. This is a special language creation activity born from the pain of forgetting. This It is a path that leads to the light of self-consciousness through the torture of forgetting and arbitrary consciousness.
This inscription makes people unexpectedly think (Freid believes that the more unexpected the association, the more authentic it is) Luis Buñuel’s first film "An Andalu Dog": "The director cut a woman's eye. This is a surrealist approach. This plot has the role of commanding the whole film: in order to see me, how the director, an artist, observes reality, we need a way of watching, or rather Put it aside completely. "Oedipus blinded himself, just as Mockrit blinded himself, that is to see things better). Therefore, this plot has the meaning of mirror mythology. It is a dreamy way of talking, looking at one's conscience and the mirror of the nation.
The plot of the first stuttering youth echoes the mood of the film. When Ignat, the protagonist’s son, and his mirror, he read Pushkin’s letter to Chaadaev about the fate of Russia in a tender voice. It's a mysterious plot: a strange woman in his father's room gives this book to her, and then it disappears. Russia's destiny and culture, this is the interpretation of this plot.
The mirror is an autobiographical film in its original sense. It can be said that its protagonist is Andrei Tarkovsky himself, his mother is his mother, and his father is his father, the poet Arseny Aleksandlovich Tarkovs. Ji, he appeared in the film with his own voice, he was reading his poem:
Our encounter , and every moment,
is God, appearing towards us...
Father only appears in the film once in the image, he Wearing a military uniform. The key words he said were: "Who do you want, boy or girl?" These words were made by the voice of Arseny Tarkovsky, who is Tarkovsky's real father (in the film It is always accompanied by poetry, paintings appear in the protagonist’s dream, such as Peter Brussels’s paintings, and music-the whole film is accompanied by Johann Sebastian Bach’s overture "Johann’s Joy").
The meaning of the mirror is also related to the autobiographical interpretation of the film from the perspective of ritual mythology: the protagonist mixes himself with his son, and his wife mixes with his mother (both played by Margaret Terehova). This kind of mixing can be understood as: the young protagonist’s love and choice for his mother and the wife imagined by the mother; the love in the adult state turns into mutual dissatisfaction and dissent, because the protagonist wants to be a child again and be with his mother. As shown in the final stage of the film. When a child walked in the field, he and his old mother. The author cannot achieve this happy ending in reality, because his wife is not a mother, and his son is not himself, but just a reflection of a mirror.
The film "Mirror" has two time levels. This is the time for the protagonist to remember and indulge in these memories. But these are pure childhood dream-like memories: fire, sister, and mysterious repeated dreams (dreams are also the mirror of the soul), when the wind blows off the vase on the table, the woods are rustling, these pure memories are with my mother Dreamland-memories want to respond and intersperse (mother and child still share the same feelings to this day). The first mysterious dream is the mother washing her hair, the water and snow falling from the ceiling. This is not only a purely personal experience, but also has the symbolic nature of the whole people: a homeland that is being destroyed-a country that is dying, That was the war years, it was 37 years. Recall the famous dream of Svyatoslav in "The Story of Igor's Expedition." He dreamed that people were trying to bury him. One of the words: "There are no beams in my golden attic." This meant for the duke to link death with the collapse of the house-the ruin of the country: when he woke up, the nobleman put Eagle in The tragic result of Kayar's defeat told him.
Each plot can be understood as the memory of the protagonist and his mother, which is also a plot in their personal lives, mirroring their personal lives in historical reality.
These are reflected in more detail in the scene of the printing house. My mother was working in printing, and she felt that she made some terrible and incredible mistake during proofreading (the audience didn’t know what it was). When the heroine was running in the printing house, a placard appeared for a few seconds with a terrible portrait of Stalin (nothing wrong, those are hallucinations).
The plot between the boy and the military instructor is also very interesting. When the boy did not complete the "rotation" command normally, he explained to the instructor not far away that in Russian, "rotation" means turning 360 degrees. The instructor was very angry, looking for the child's parents, but they had sacrificed. Immediately after this, the camera turned to the edited documentary footage. Russian soldiers dragged the cannon in the swamp (Talkowski’s student Alexander Sokulov imitated and developed this feature film and documentary footage editing. Technique).
In general, ethnic, social, and age issues are combined in an exceptionally detailed manner in every plot of the film. One of the highlights is the image of mothers, mothers and sons giving family treasures to wealthy neighbors. There is no direct soulmate here. The wealthy hostess makes the protagonist see that she is sleeping soundly with a baby, and asks her to kill a chicken to cook. But social and psychological barriers cannot be overcome. The mother chopped off the chicken head in disgust (the master cannot kill because she is pregnant), and she and her son, both hungry and hungry, left there quickly. The situation at this time not only contains personal and secret content, but also social Shared consciousness.
The meaning of Tarkovsky's "Mirror" is infinite. As two mirrors, they are opposed to each other, and together they lead to infinity.
An excerpt from Rudnev's "Twentieth Century Cultural Dictionary-Keywords and Texts": "Tarkovsky's Mirror"
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