I revisited Andrei Tarkovsky's "Fly to Space" yesterday, the first time I watched it during the 2020 pandemic. This is the penultimate film of the old tower that I have watched, and the last one is "Andrei Rublev" with a religious theme.
"Flying to Space", which can be literally translated as "Solaris" and "Solaris", is a sci-fi suspense film by Andrei Tarkovsky and released in 1972, starring Donatas. Overdyce and Natalia Bondarchuk. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 25th Cannes Film Festival, and won the Jury Prize and Fabisi Award in the main competition unit.
"Flying to Space" tells the story of a problem with the air station on Solaris, and psychologist Chris Kelvin went to find out the cause. Before leaving, he meets Burton, a former pilot at his childhood parents' house, who warns that something unthinkable is going on on Solaris. When he got there, he found that among the three scientists stationed there, the one who was most familiar with him had committed suicide, and the other two scientists were also mysterious, as if something unspeakable was happening in their room. After one night, I woke up and found that my wife, Harley, who had been dead for ten years, appeared in the room, sent her away with a spaceship, and woke up the next day and reappeared in the room. Snart told him later that it was Solaris who scanned their brain activity, copied their memory and mental activity, and sent out the test subjects. Finally, after scanning Chris's EEG, the sea started new activities and stopped sending test items to their space station. And Harley, because she fell in love with Chris, couldn't accept her existence as a replica, and chose to end her life. At the end of the film, what the old tower shows us is that the male protagonist Chris returned to the house of his parents when he was a child, and then the camera was greatly lifted and pulled through the Solaris cloud. The house exists in the Solaris Sea. island.
In this film, the images used by the old tower are everywhere. The running water at the beginning and the end of the film and the water plants, leaves, ponds, running horses, apples, china, water droplets, mirrors, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunter in the Snow, these are the hallmarks of the old tower movies, the old tower poems, poems written on camera. In the color of the film, a mixture of color and black and white is used. There are movies in the movies. When the movies are played in the movies, most of the movies are in black and white, but when the movies of the childhood hero and their parents are played, they are in color. Black and white films are rational and scientific, while color films are normal and emotional. In terms of lens language, Laota uses long shots and close-ups. Generally speaking, long shots are used for documentary, and large close-ups are used for emphasis. On the highway on Burton's way home, a large number of long shots were used, the colors were black and white, and the sound effects imitated the sound of electromagnetic waves when the spacecraft traveled through space, followed by the appearance of space and flight, and then the protagonist entered the air station. The long shots and sound effects here have the effect of transitions. It is the transition shot of the protagonist entering Solaris and the film entering the main scene; after Burton warned Chris, the use of long shots made the highway home seem so long, recalling Solaris, thinking of what Chris is about to happen on Solaris, shows his mixed feelings. On Snart's birthday, they argued in the library, revealing the theme of human finitude. After the male protagonist went out, he came back to see Harry staring at Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Hunter in the Snow" for a long time, and then gave There are many close-ups of various scenes in this painting. In the film, when the male protagonist and Harley watched the images of themselves and their parents in the snow when they were children, it was a color film. This was a projection of his other emotional world, and it was a visual representation of the scenes of his love and being loved. Peter Sr. That footage is what Hunters in the Snow was supposed to project. And near the end of the film, the male protagonist and Turners are in the library again, and when they talk about truth, happiness, death and love, they give the male protagonist a close-up of his ear. The ear is an external manifestation of hearing, emphasizing what they are talking about and what the protagonist is thinking about those topics.
At the end of the film, the old tower uses an open ending. You don't know whether the male protagonist has returned to Earth, or whether he has been living in the Solaris space station and died there like Jibalian, or whether his brain waves turned into a People live on small islands in the middle of the Solaris Sea. The philosophical themes that Tarkovsky wants to explain, about truth, love and death, are reflected in his other works, and respect for the limitations of human cognition is the theme that this film cannot avoid. This work, for me, can be regarded as a real horror film, this kind of horror comes from ourselves, from the depths of our hearts, from the most painful abyss of memory that cannot be looked directly in our lives, and those memories and psychological Activities, Solaris can materialize into concrete objects and enter our lives. We have to face those hurts again, we have to face ourselves.
Finally want to end with Turners' words: Science, nonsense, mediocrity and genius are equally useless in this context. We don't want to conquer any universe, we want to expand Earth to the edge of the universe, we don't know what to do with other worlds, we don't need other worlds, we just need a mirror. We try to communicate, but we can never find a way. We are in the human stupidity of trying to achieve a goal we are afraid to achieve, a goal we don't need. All people need is people.
2021.09.12 12:15
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