Both the teacher Fei Deutero and the teacher's teacher Dai Jinhua said that after watching the 8-hour (later reduced to 6 hours) "Empire Building", they will definitely have new thoughts on the movie.
The teacher said yes, I believe so, but is it worth the 8 hours?
Let me imitate this:
After watching Tarkovsky's "Stalker", you will definitely have new thoughts on the movie.
It's true, when I finally finished watching without fast-forwarding and dragging the progress bar, I was left alone in the living room.
good. The old tower is honestly not deceiving me. The teacher and the teacher of the teacher are honestly not bullying me.
I think this kind of movie should be watched many times, not necessarily from beginning to end, just a rewatch of dozens of seconds of footage, and it will definitely bring new understanding and experience.
When I watched it for the first time, I kept telling my dad, don't watch it, you can't watch it anymore, this is art, it's super boring, you can't understand it, maybe it's the words that make us all watch more patiently go down.
The first time I saw it, I felt that many of the shots were useless, and deleting them would have no effect. Even though many of them are subtle foreshadowings behind, they are often forgotten because they are too bland. For example, the train, pills, and syringes at the beginning, I was surprised to see this scene when I watched the film paper. In the dark yellow tones, the whistle of industrial civilization and the roar of the railroad tracks are like a bowl, detaining these ordinary people who don't know where they came from. Until today, a week later, when I think about it, I still can't help but shiver, just like Bianstone. Bone wind.
In the film review of Lao Pagoda's "Mirror", some people described this autobiographical film as like a poetry collection. I think "Mirror" is a lyric poem, suitable for sitting on a wooden railing in the purple field at the beginning of the film. "The Stalker" is epic, the tram entering the zone is like a bumpy curtain, the writer and the professor look back uneasily, only the stalker looks ahead in the shadow of the dead's bones. Such chapters can only be read over and over again at dawn or late at night.
There seems to be no malice in this movie, and the central characters who enter the zone, except the stalkers, are all highly respected and learned people. They can lie on the grass and talk about literature, science, talk and self. Writers say that writing itself is expressing and proving your greatness, and when you are convinced that you are great, you no longer need to prove it, and you no longer need to write.
In the tavern, the writer said to the professor, You have discovered a truth, and I have discovered a batch. The setting of the roles of the two reflects that both sides are trapped in their own intractable suffering: the self-realization of science relies on certainty, accuracy, and even uniqueness, while the self-realization of culture depends on natural growth in a free environment. , it is the unpredictable and unmeasurable part that is the essence of culture. Right and wrong are indistinguishable, and a truth or a group of truths lose their meaning in front of the zone. Writer says my conscience needs veganism to win the world. And my subconscious yearned for a piece of juicy meat; I thought I could change them, who knew they changed me in their own way. When he is looking for the identity of others, he is actually looking for a kind of self-identity. His beliefs cannot be called beliefs, he is just looking for a mirror in the confusion of the true self and the false self.
The professor is a logistics scientist, he is a relatively taciturn person, always seems to be thinking and silent, he studies the essential laws of the world and the natural laws of all things, everything becomes orderly in calculation, so there seems to be no belief in reason. The crisis and the mysterious and illusory part, but it was not until he took the dynamite out of his arms that people understood his sorrow.
The reason why the fisherman in "Winter Light" was in a panic was a newspaper story about China making an atomic bomb. These things that are sometimes near and sometimes far are so terrifying because of our inability to distinguish between near and far. Then what is he looking for, an absolutely fair and natural environment, a risky rebellion that risked his life, the more he wants to destroy this place, the more he cares, the harder it is to care.
"On that day, two of the disciples went to a village called Emmaus, which was about twenty-five miles from Jerusalem. They talked to each other about all the things that had happened to them. While they were talking about each other, Jesus himself approached them and walked with them, but their eyes were clouded and they did not know him. Jesus said to them, 'What are you talking about as you walk along?' And they stood still with sad faces on their faces."— The New Testament Gospel of Luke
Writers and professors are "two disciples" who go to great lengths to venture into the "area" to find what is right there with them, as if they have met the Lord but are still looking for the Lord. They seem wise and knowledgeable, and the intellectual self-motivation makes them mistakenly think that they care enough about the common people. However, in the face of the real zone, the place where they really seek the inner world, they dare not face it. People think that if you have a zone and enter the zone, you can live a happy life without any worries. However, what are they really longing for? Who dares to say?
Do those who desire a lot of wealth more want to kill their father, and those who desire to save their younger brother's life end up with a lot of wealth? People yearn for power, so they want to be strong, but the mastery of these weapons itself is the beginning of disaster? Because his desire is not strong enough to protect himself, but strong enough to rob others.
The story of "Porcupine" is simply the finishing touch of the whole film. The story that can be told in a few sentences has such great charm, and it is told like a short story by Borges. So the stalker never enters the room, never makes a wish to the zone, he is also afraid, he is also running away, or he has seen through the secret, see through the realization of his own value does not depend on making great wishes, But by leading countless melancholy people to come here to make a wish. But now, it's all over. The professor's explosives didn't come in handy, but the zone itself was destroyed in the stalker's heart.
So what is true faith? Old Tower said, "Only human love - incredible - can justify the blunt assertion that the world is hopeless. The world is our common and tangible asset, even though we have I don't know how to love anymore." The stalker probably doesn't know how to love anymore. At first, he treated his wife badly and insisted on going out, but in the end, when he returned to real life, she raised her daughter, who suffered from radiation sickness, to Shoulder, take her home. His wife may have never been to the zone, and she doesn't understand the grand aspirations and self-righteous sense of mission of the intellectuals, but her life goes on.
Like Marta in "Winter Light", she became the only worshipper in the church when no one was present.
She worships love, repents to love, swears to love, and recites hymns to love.
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