I am the candle that burns out at the feast

Nyasia 2022-03-23 09:02:50


Movies are bizarre art, immersing people in moments when the world is reinterpreted. Something seems to be secretly conveying in the dark. Like a ray of light, dizziness and epiphany, it is difficult to calm down from now on. Maybe, reality is fake and the movie is real.

Andre's films are dreams of the soul, not of the world.
In the end, it stirs up the emotions deep in the heart, rather than letting the brain's consciousness fly;
it is a hypnotic spell that makes people lose the possibility of speaking.
Nostalgia isn't telling a story, it's showing a whole life.

A person is in a situation of deep alienation from the world, from himself.
A person who desires harmony must be in a split, and this is the dilemma of the poet Gorchakov,
not only with the surrounding environment, but also with the life itself, which never satisfies the individual's demands.

Bergman questioned belief, Tarkovsky affirmed belief.
His films have a kind of divine beauty, staring slowly, like the touch of God's gentle eyes, the wounds gradually heal and radiate new life.

Domenico has long been mad in the eyes of "normal people", but he has awakened a certain emotion of the poet Gorchakov, perhaps they saw the same thing - the ruthless and crazy modern civilization in the human being for himself An epitaph erected by futile efforts.

Can one person save the world?

can not.

If a person cannot even save himself, there is no need to talk about other things. A drowning person can't pull out his hand and drag himself ashore. Although it is a vast ocean, don't forget that you are also in the water, without exception. Even if human suffering is rampant, even if the global threat of war is real. Perhaps, in the eyes of the majority of those who are complacent, numb, or enjoying nothingness, he is just a eccentric lunatic whose death is not worth mentioning, and his burning with all his might has only been exchanged for indifferent glances. But he's really just about pure simplicity and just letting people know that he cares about them. Why is it so hard to communicate with people, even with a heinous death to attract.

What is the indifference of people?

"Oh, mother. The air is so light and swirling over your head. When you smile, it clarifies." These were his last words before he set himself on fire. When "Ode to Joy" distorted the notes, Tarkovsky created the miracle of video, and I believe there will be no more shocking picture than this. You will clearly feel the pain in your heart, and then the scene will be branded with traces that will last a lifetime.
Perhaps in Tarkovsky's view, the meaning of existence is to fight the evil in the mind.

"Nostalgia" is not only the nostalgia of a Russian poet in Italy, but also all the sorrows that human beings see retrospectively after leaving the Eden of the soul. "Nostalgia" is a deeper emotion of return, a way of returning to nature and returning to the noumenon.

The madman is dead, where did he go? How much room does the weak light of the candle in the poet's hand have to shine? The evil toxins in the air for people to breathe still persist, and the hometown is a place too beautiful to be reached. Everyone is a part of the world's crimes, and everyone faces the suffering and guilt of the misfortunes and crimes that happen in the world every moment. Man's self-avoidance, man's so-called self-protection, is nothing but an evasion to avoid God's gaze.

"I am the candle that burns out at the feast."

I know there must be something left after it burns out, there
must be something that happened that we didn't see.

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Extended Reading
  • 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.

  • Randy 2022-03-23 09:02:50

    9.0 Holding the candle in the wind, walking through the mist on the spring and heading for the eternal land - he made me, a religious atheist, start to think about what faith is.

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."