Tarkovsky's poetry of life, so beautiful that it belongs only to loneliness

Chelsey 2022-03-26 09:01:09

Sure enough, I couldn't bear the weight of Tarkovsky's films. The analysis was impossible, because every shot was extremely private and free, and every shot could be analyzed infinitely. Tarkovsky uses music, poetry, black and white and color completely freely. Fragmented shots are randomly spliced, showing the continuity of memory and consciousness, the appearance and concealment of characters, the distance and nearness of the lens, and the extension of space. Alienation and closeness and focus, the presence and absence of words, the empty scene, the scene, the wind, everything is like a wonderful dream, but that is Tarkovsky's real and delicate thoughts , the unfolding picture of emotion and memory. This movie cannot be approached easily, it is too lonely, people may be lost and at a loss after watching it, there is only a long silence, only a kind of mental stagnation with nowhere to concentrate, maybe a kind of no object sexual concentration. Perhaps, this is Tarkovsky, who deduces the beauty of loneliness to the point of suffocation, but also makes people extremely free, relieved and detached.

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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.