I watched it today, and I was surprised that many of the details in the first time I watched it in high school didn’t match up. Although I clearly remember the hot springs, there is only a green patch left in my impression. This is a very interesting point, because there is no There isn't that much green, maybe because of the dark setting of the whole cloud and mist, green is the only color that stands out, including Eugenia, who is also wearing a green gauze skirt covered in dark colors. This comparison is so interesting, how could I have understood such depth as a child? So what message does a child (especially a child with the purpose of pretending to be) end up receiving? It's green, borrow the lines from it: "simple". Laota has used the most direct method to let a child bypass those incomprehensible things and directly feel the root of what he wants to express - the ability to bypass the audience's acceptance level and still be able to convey information, really let me Eye-opening.
There is another point, I would like to emphasize that Tarkovsky clearly hates "metaphors" many times. Please put it into context and understand it. Don't always feel that you can understand his stormy clouds as you want. It doesn't make sense, that's not what it means. What he resists is the model interpretation, the Soviet Union's one-to-one interpretation of symbols, such as the previous Chinese reading comprehension: A symbolizes B. This is such a monotonous way of interpretation, how low-level and boring, of course he resists it, the meaning of his wind, rain and fog cannot be expressed in words, but you have to read it with your senses. Therefore, as a top artist, his works are of course carefully structured.
It is easy to make the structure exquisite, but it is difficult to make it exquisite without any traces of deliberate and carving. The old tower is actually done without carving. Some people want to ask, this is called not carving, every frame feels very polished, right? I think this is precisely the way he does not sculpt. Every artist has his own style, and his style is really poetic. In a popular sense, he expresses the most confusing, If you are not sure about the content, you will not know what he wants to say after reading it, and none of the characters in it speak human words. Without Tarkovsky's proficiency in poetry, it would have been a complete mess, but he does poetry, and he has the ability to navigate it in a way that feels "as if you've lost control of the plot and meaning" while maintaining "as if can feel something directly out of those beautiful things." It's too good, this makes the sense of carving flow away, and it disappears all at once, so in my opinion he is an artist who removes the sense of carving to the highest level, just click on the difficulty hell mode, you see others are trying to make it His own works seem to have no craftsmanship on the surface, right? He just cares about the craftsmanship on the inside. What are you afraid of when I sculpt the surface for you...
1. Motherhood, fertility and "simplicity"
The word "simplicity" appears twice at the beginning and at the end. Both are very traditional and devout Italian men expressing their views on their mothers and wives, as well as their descriptions of themselves. The mothers and wives here must be superimposed with a layer of "motherland" at the same time. Therefore, in the final analysis, the old tower clearly conveys a message: the seemingly primitive and simplest family structure, family roles, national belonging, and social identity are the most natural, just as I felt when I was a child. The color of the green plants is like a natural phenomenon that keeps appearing. When Tarkovsky answered the question, he said that you should not think about what the rain and fog represent, and what it does not represent. I really understand what he meant. Since I compared my feelings with my own childhood, I can no longer understand it. , because natural phenomena are really natural phenomena, dogs are dogs, nothing else! Why choose these to shoot? Because of simplicity, because he Tarkovsky "is a simple man", and because these are all things that remain in his memory. Who hasn't seen the storm? Who hasn't seen the big yellow dog in his hometown? This simplicity is primitive, which can be perceived by any audience in the world. They will stay on the old tower and on us, and the specific cultural background and feelings may be slightly different, that's all. What is poetry, right here.
In addition, the Russians are a national thing, I don't know how they came to be, it is really strange, Tarkovsky, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, etc., all share a highly complex And the same philosophical perspective and values that clearly belong to Russia. I can't describe it, I can't write it clearly, you have to read it all to understand it, and if you are a staunch atheist, you probably won't understand it after reading it all.
The close-up of the Virgin on the wall strictly corresponds to the close-up of the fragment of the advertisement of the terrifying baby in Dominica’s home; the bird feathers of the prayer ceremony for the child strictly correspond to the leaking water in Dominica’s home. The last two protagonists Chengren, feathers fell to the water, remember what Dominic posted? 1+1=1, one drop of water plus one drop of water should be equal to one drop of water, but more and more factors pollute these waters, wrapping a layer of oil stains, making them repulsive, incompatible, and inaccessible.
So this set of messages conveys the most obvious: alienation of people, uncrossable borders of countries, uncommunicable translations, disintegration of families = fading of the original mother power. Dominic said the end of the world was coming, Andre said they were going to save the people who fell into the abyss, but they were scolded. In fact, the two of them were the only ones who understood that the progress of civilization and the rapid development of industrialized society not only made Natural mothers subside (pollution, which is also clearly demonstrated in stalker), make mothers biologically incapable of producing offspring (we can even think of a reduction in fertility), and at the same time religious decline, making it difficult to find The road to homecoming (psychological belonging, that is, ultimate liberation).
2. No translation
Andrei and Eugenia have an irreconcilable point at all: Eugenia is a translator, and of course she has to defend the value of translation. She believes that she not only communicates the two worlds, but also a kind of communication. promote. Andrei firmly disagreed, and he took away Eugenia's translated version of the poetry collection, and finally burned it. What is translation? It's the fusion of people, cultures, countries, and countries, and it's only when there are no borders that Russians and Italians can understand each other. This also echoes the 1+1=1 I mentioned above, the pursuit of primitive simplicity.
Eugenia's thirst and desire for Andre are worldly, very worldly and eager for quick success. Her attractive but fearful mentality is really like an anthropomorphic state. To anthropomorphize postmodern society, it should be It's Eugenia. Does she really want Andre? No, because she couldn't understand Andre and his values, like a nasty caterpillar pierced her, her impulse was from "no", Andre was full of green, and she pinched it off green, so she has been wearing green under her coat. Eugenia later joined a mafia character similar to the loan shark type. Readers who have read Laotuo will soon be able to taste another set of familiar recipes: another Aglaya being "hijacked" by capital s story. The richness of expression on Eugenia's face was also interesting.
What kind of person is Andre? He knew that it was the end now, either the end was coming, it was already here, or there was a predicament that could not be translated, people could not be translated, countries could not be translated, and there were boundaries everywhere, so he had no choice but to "be like a sculpture" "I can't move, I can't escape, I can't find a way back to my mother's arms.
3. Imprisonment and suffering
Dominic imprisoned his family, and Eugenia also mentioned that he was imprisoned by Andre. The former's imprisonment of his wife and children is isolation, and he hopes to return to the original motherhood and save his children and the future of the world; the latter's Imprisonment is the inability to communicate, the intranslatability of the above, the inability of the two states to merge. Eugenia's opening dialogue with the "simple Italian man" is dismissed by Eugenia as the imprisoning of women by men: women just have their place and their responsibilities, and that's how they should be. It is estimated that the old tower was given a hat that is not friendly to women because of similar bridges.
I'm not excusing him, but trying to understand his perspective by loosening the boundaries a little bit. This simplicity has become the same things as his storms: natural order, motherhood.
Like Laotuo's book, Laota's characters basically accept various types of imprisonment and endure the pain caused by imprisonment. In the end, Dominic increased the flame by burning himself, confronting the long-standing intention of water around him, and Andre lighting a candle through the water vapor is exactly the same behavior. Water gives people the pain of clammy cold. Its status in Tarkovsky's film is almost equal to the ubiquitous snow in Petersburg in Lao Tuo's book, and the dirty yellow Lala is pain, very intuitive pain. . The flames lit by the prayer candles for the Virgin Mary in the church passed through the fog, didn't it just pass through the pain and get relief? ! Those who are familiar with Dostoevsky can easily understand the Russian idea of Tarkovsky.
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