Getting to know Tarkovsky

Carolyne 2022-03-22 09:02:50

When I'm almost finished, tell me that I have exceeded a few words and turn to the movie review. You can add some more by the way.

Feeling, maybe I finally understand a little Tarkovsky? The whole film is only interrupted in the middle to take a glass of brandy with ice.

Although it still feels extremely boring most of the time, I have seen a few lens languages ​​that I have never seen or thought of. I think that's actually enough. I think all the previous clips, including the 6.5 minutes long shot, were for the last shot of the dead tree floating in the bright waves. This is really a despairing beauty, a kind of speechless beauty. It is also an inspiration. This feeling is very mysterious, I don't know where it came from.

It feels like almost every dialogue scene is designed like a theater stage. Why did the bedroom and living room have to be created so much space, and the bed and table only take up a small part... and the group scene that started in "Sacrifice" also walks around in two scenes, which is quite dramatic.

I still don't quite appreciate the long shots at the end of Nostalgia and The Sacrifice, for me, especially the one in the former; it's like a plain narrative. It's hard to conjure up any thoughts on my part. The latter at least has a sense of layers before and after, and has a very strong background, so it will attract me more.

Compared to "Nostalgia", I prefer the use of color in "Sacrifice". Example: I watched the former two days ago, but I forgot whether it was a color film or a black and white film... I feel that the use of color is not bright. But I really have to say that the black and white clips in "Sacrifice" are absolutely incredible. With a single color, the atmosphere of the end of the world can be expressed so perfectly, I think there should be no one else. Starting from 1/3, the color slowly transitioned from color to black and white, which took more than 30 minutes, just like from afternoon, dusk to night. And the farewell to Maria at "twilight" is really beautiful, there is a sense of beauty in an instant. And the same goes for listening to the TV broadcast.

Time in "Sacrifice" is very interesting. It seems that at the end of the day, time has become a kind of flowing water, which can move forward, stop, and return. And the director added time more than once in the confusion of time: 11:00, 3:00, 10:00 in the morning; there are even specific dates. Just as time is meaningless in Hell or Limbo, we are either tormented for thousands of years, or in perpetual banishment. It will make people feel a sense of pain and despair.

But for me, it's still a little too long in many places. So its status in my heart can't be higher than Attack in the Shell 2. I feel that I would prefer the latter's way of expressing beauty. A postmodern, fast-paced, fragmented beauty.

(For the time being, there are still many shots that I can't understand, and I will add it in the second brush)

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Extended Reading

The Sacrifice quotes

  • [first lines]

    [sub-titled]

    Alexander: Come here and give me a hand, my boy.

  • [last lines]

    [sub-titled]

    Gossen: In the beginning was the Word. Why is that, Papa?