Time does not disappear without leaving a trace. It resides in our memory. When the audience watches a movie, what they want is to recall the time that has passed from the experience of the movie characters, or to fill the gaps in their own life experience. Elapsed time is the trace left in the memory of the past, and what the audience is looking for is this forgotten past. Therefore, when the audience recalls the passing time in the movie, they are establishing the connection between memory and time—the time that has passed and the time that is being experienced.
There is no lack of questioning and thinking about time in Tarkovsky's works. In "Road Roller and Violin", Tarkovsky explores the blending of two different life experiences. The film describes the encounter, acquaintance and mutual
influence of two people from different worlds, a young boy as a musician and a young man as a road roller . Within this day, the little boy has the life experience of being a road roller, and the road roller exists in the little boy’s "personal time" as "other time".
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