Everyone's Mirror

Mona 2022-03-21 09:02:34

I have seen Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia", "Ivan's Childhood", and "Andrei Lubmow" before. His films are long takes, obscure and difficult to understand. But it is beautiful, like a dream!
I bought his full 5K portfolio a while ago and watched "Mirror". At first, I was not sure what I was talking about, so I turned to Tarkovsky's masterpiece "Sculpting Time". I grinned when I found the chapter on the mirror...
It tells about Tarkovsky's childhood memories, like a dream, like the ice in his mouth slowly melting . He took people into the distant past. Just like the name of the movie, Tarkovsky really gave us a mirror, allowing us to see the depths of our own hearts and reflect everyone's hearts. It seems that the filming is not the director's childhood, but us.
It's been more than a month, and the pictures from this movie still appear in my mind from time to time, and I can't stop...
Watch this movie, don't deliberately analyze it, and don't think about it too complicated, as long as Just feel it.
Not to mention the beauty of the picture, it is very difficult to make the old tower take pictures that are not good-looking.

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Mirror quotes

  • Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfather's house used to be in which I was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time I try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again. And when I see those walls made of logs and the dark entrance, even in my dream I become aware that I'm only dreaming it. And the overwhelming joy is clouded by anticipation of awakening. At times something happens and I stop dreaming of the house and the pine trees of my childhood around it. Then I get depressed. And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'l be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...

  • Forensic doctor: You know, I fell and found strange things here - roots, bushes... Has it ever occurred to you that plants can feel, know, even comprehend? The trees, this hazelnut bush...

    Natalya: This is an alder tree.

    Forensic doctor: It doesn't matter. They don't run about. Like us who are rushing, fussing, uttering banalities. That's because we don't trust nature that is inside us. Always this suspiciousness, haste, and no time to stop and think.