This is just a few short comments

Helga 2022-03-22 09:02:30

After six swipes, due to the limited number of short comments, I had to change it to a long comment, but the following text is not a long comment, but a short comment accumulated every time I watch it. I've read too many articles about Tarkovsky, and I don't want to repeat the opinions of others here. The following are just my own findings and a faithful record of my viewing experience at that time.

2019.05.15

Steady Dangdang does not have any extra cameras, and has abandoned editing that can be replaced by scheduling and moving mirrors. The distant view, shadows, fog, quiet and hazy images, long shots that penetrate the back of the paper, and slowly flowing narrative... The madman who self-immolated to warn the world, The poet who guards the candle and the director who sculpts time.

UPDATE: The first Tarkovsky I watched, the reviews that once seemed childish and superfluous now. God has given the movie to Tarkovsky.

2019.12.30

Nostalgia is Tarkovsky's Passion composed in film, and every frame is a gift.

2020.01.09

Pull the film, but even if you can imitate the tower-style scheduling, you will never be able to learn that taste, don't become Bi Gan.

2020.01.14

Let me live in this rhythm forever.

2020.09.12

1. Feather and wind elements appearing many times. 2. The film is almost always filled with the sound of running water and crashing. 3. The church part is the fastest editing part of the whole film, which is the reason why this scene is the only one dominated by Eugenia. 4. Gorchakov only speaks "monologues" in front of children when he is drunk. 5. The final minutes of Dominic's self-immolation were deliberately portrayed as a joke by Tarkovsky. 6. One of the two Andrés has no intention of admiring the beauty of Italy, and the other has no intention of photographing the beauty of Italy. 7. "Stalker", "Nostalgia" and "Sacrifice" are in the same line, which can be called Tarkovsky's nostalgia/sacrifice/holy fool/faith trilogy. 8. It's not that Tarkovsky made miracles, it's that Tarkovsky's films are miracles themselves.

I said, who can help me escape?

To experience nostalgia on the way away from home.

Everything is unknown except fear.

How can I expect happiness?

Since happiness has abandoned me, since happiness is beyond my reach.

I really want to sing and dance,

Because that might be what happiness looks like, at least pretending to be happy.

For an ideal that may never be realized,

What a sacrifice!

I have long left my hometown.

2020.10.23

Pull sheets in class.

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Extended Reading
  • Shana 2022-03-21 09:02:48

    When composing the picture in the moving mirror, I get the feeling that it is clearly green on the other side not far away, but it is always separated by a shallow pool of water or mist, so we follow the poet to wander the corridors of time, wandering In the ruins of the dreamland, it is not known where to travel without stopping, and only at certain moments hear a hazy call: "Andre!" - the echo of nostalgia.

  • Noemy 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    It's homesickness that can't go back, and faith that can't be guessed. These two emotions seem to be ingeniously combined. Except for some still amazing scene images and god-like scheduling, I don't like the way this film is handled. Eugenia’s explicit symbol of desire, Dominic’s speech and Andre’s last difficult lighting of candles, are extremely formalistic, almost spreading the truth on the screen, deviating from the aesthetics of the old tower.

Nostalghia quotes

  • Andrei Gorchakov: What are you reading?

    Eugenia: Arseny Tarkovsky's poems.

    Andrei Gorchakov: In Russian?

    Eugenia: No, it's a translation. Quite a good one.

    Andrei Gorchakov: Throw it away.

    Eugenia: Why? The translator's a very good poet.

    Andrei Gorchakov: Poetry is untranslatable, like the whole of art.

    Eugenia: You may be right that poetry is untranslatable. But music? Music for example...

  • Eugenia: So what did God say to St. Catherine?

    Domenico: "You are she who is not, but I am He who is."