sacrifice

Idell 2022-03-24 09:03:36

In the last year of his life, Tarkovsky, who was suffering from lung cancer, completed the film "Sacrifice" in pain. This masterpiece is an elegy dedicated to modern civilization: the era of going astray, the endless expansion of material desires, the human spiritual world is on the verge of collapse, a huge disaster is imminent, the protagonist resolutely seeks salvation at his own sacrifice... .


A friend said: "Tarkovsky is a Schopenhauer-like pessimistic tendency."
I said: "I think he is just very realistic."

Tarkovsky did not die in his hometown, he died in France, 84 In 1986, he declared "self-exile" and died in 1986. He already knew he had cancer when he was in "self-exile", after filming "Homesickness." I've found that many masters can foresee their own death, and "self-exile" is not the only thing Tarkovsky had.

Why die like this? It seems to me that they have no fear of death in the face of death, they are calm and calm, and everything is natural. Death is a normal thing. "Self-exile" is probably the best preparation for death. Why do they despise their own death so much? —Because there is something more important than death. Looking at "Sacrifice", it is not difficult to understand that what Tarkovsky worried about before his death was not himself, but human beings. Speaking of humans, seriously, Tarkovsky didn't think he was talking big. Ordinary people all yearn for euthanasia. Before death, most of them think about their afterlife and their children. Who has time to think about "human beings"? "Sacrifice" has no historical background, no regional characteristics, only human beings.

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Extended Reading
  • Felipe 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    Typical low saturation tone of Sven Nykvist

  • Jamaal 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    Bach's Passion of Matthew sounded, and we saw a Japanese tree on the plain. In the elements like a stage set, the old tower called the story of allegorical poetry. The tension of form and content runs through, and the characters are always Like on stage, that is, in mythology, the postman is like an oracle, the doctor like a guard, the maid like a witch, a daughter like Ophelia, Leonardo da Vinci like Francesca, all like mourning Christ The Virgin, in the siren-like song, Alexander returns to Maria, in exchange for his son's reason in the beginning, the camera is like a dance, scheduling the room, the mirror and the window, but its aesthetics are connected to Japan, or not as good as It is wabi-sabi, even the film is stingy with color, revealing the depth of the surface of the object in the dim stare, the sound of water in a mirror is sparse, the phantom is fluttering, it is really dreamlike, like a fake Tarkovs base. During the filming of the climax scene, due to a camera failure, the house was rebuilt, and the "sacrifice" spread both inside and outside the screen, until at the end, a lift shot, withered trees bathed in the brilliance of water waves and reproduced Bach music, that's it, the seven parts of the old tower Half, ending in the ascent of love.

The Sacrifice quotes

  • [first lines]

    [sub-titled]

    Alexander: Come here and give me a hand, my boy.

  • [last lines]

    [sub-titled]

    Gossen: In the beginning was the Word. Why is that, Papa?