Sacrifice and Rebirth

Deanna 2022-02-07 14:49:21

In the face of modernity and extreme scientism, everything is about to be destroyed, just as the large-scale nuclear disaster announced on the radio shows, Alexander can only repeat poetry and existential soul introspection in silence for some reason (polyphonic dubbing), Later, he completely sacrificed his helpless lamb-like self and sacrificed to God, and immersed himself in personal prayer all day long. At this time, he may be against the typical Eastern metaphysics such as eternal reincarnation. What he needs is a Eschatology and its realization in the human world, the great renewal of the world and the universe, the purification/destruction of the wholeness of history from the present, but behind this apparent world-wide forgetting, there is the God of eternal memory. An ontological person. Until the messenger, who symbolized Hermes, drove him to spend the night with the maid Mary - praying for the healing and redemption of Alexander's soul / must be a poor and heretical witch, she has the so-called Maya and magic - Christian faith It is in line with the most primitive, innocent and simple natural beliefs. In fact, nature with the essence and function of motherhood contains the overflow of innate love. She calmed Alexander's impulse to destroy himself and destroy others. Awakening his memory of his mother and his veiled fundamental love for the world—(meta)love and (meta)hate constitute the guiding essential values ​​of the world, which gave birth to human reason and the structure of the world ( Scheler theory). Therefore, Tarkovsky's posthumous work is a metaphor for his answer, and he begins to regard the Taoism of the East as an intermediary being that symbolizes the harmony between Apocalypse religion and natural religion - this is the one that appears on the back of Alex. Because of the yin and yang fish, Ya is like a madman Zhuangzi, who set fire to his villa, and all this marks the return of human beings to the way of nature.
But in the end, Ya was still held hostage by the cage under the spirit of modern science - the mount of the mental hospital mechanism. Only the son of Alexander still repeatedly planted the Japanese tree that symbolized nature and the cycle of life, with his father in his mouth - a tree that made Christian sacrifice, reborn in the way of nature, and in the appearance of oblivion. Memory (circle of rebirth) or attaining true oblivion (emptiness) of nature.world.tree of universe is also.

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  • Lon 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    What to save you Andrei Tarkovsky. The staged performance, the language of the camera is obviously asking for something. The beginning is great, in the reflection of life, there is also the question of modern civilization. In the end, it was a maze of endless sorrow, entanglement, and no exit. I especially wanted to say: how to watch Tarkovsky's movies, it would be better to have subtitles synchronously analyzed. In the end it was hope and love, which Ta said was dedicated to his son

  • Amber 2022-03-14 14:12:30

    Old Tower's swan song is a strange amalgamation of his time-space aesthetics and Bergman's form. His long-shot scheduling is still beautiful, but Bergman's profound symbolism has no grip in his hand, so the symbols that appear in the film are too direct. We can all feel his dying care for the fate of mankind, and understand his desire to express what he must leave behind. However, these overly precise images always jump out to disturb the meditative atmosphere of the film.

The Sacrifice quotes

  • Alexander: I studied philosophy, history of religion, aesthetics. And ended up putting myself in chains. Of my own free will.

  • Alexander: Which of you have done this?