In the current river, how to deal with memory?

Ivory 2022-03-22 09:02:17

The only indisputable essence of cinema is the fluidity of time. Image presentation is only the second-order substance of film. When confronting the fluidity of time, there are two general encounters, one is "experience of the present" and the other is "experienced memory".

This film is more of the latter.

I'm tired, so I won't write it for now. Anyway, I'm probably talking about the old tower.

Tarkovsky, yes!

Ah why 140 words?

have to

Viewing the images of the present experience and the memory of experience is also a process of perceiving experience, which is inseparable from the binding of time. It's just that the former is going downstream, while the latter is upstream.

The former is more inclined to guide the logic and coherence of the inner narrative, that is, dramatic reality; the latter emphasizes the fit with the subjective perception form, and in the context of Laota's film, it is what we often call poetic logic. That is, the memory is real.

splashed around the traveler

don't write anymore

want to sleep

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  • 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.