Nine parts:
Prologue (Пролог), Wandering Artist (Скоморох) 1400, Feofan Grek (Феофан Грек) 1405, André’s Passion (Страсти по Андрею) 1406, Festival (Праздник) 1408, Doomsday Judgment (Праздник) Страшный суд) 1408, Invasion (Набег) 1408, Silence (Молчание) 1412, and Bell (Колокол) 1423.
Plot:
At the beginning of the movie, Rublev is a young and white youth, in the ivory of the Trinity Cathedral and Monastery In the tower, spent a pure and innocent youth. On the one hand, it shows his talent in painting, delicate brushstrokes, and gentle colors; on the other hand, it has also been jealous and alienated by people around him. When the well-known icon painter Feofan showed interest in him, his friend Cyril said that André’s paintings are beautiful and there is no fear that goes deep into the soul.
Then, as all the protagonists must do, he stepped out of the monastery, left his dependent friend Danila, and headed to the wilderness and the unknown world. When caught and seduced in the night of pagan carnivals, he viciously cursed their fornication and absurdity, but was unable to answer her seemingly high-quality questions; when he was commissioned to paint the Doomsday Judgment, he was puzzled and why the duke To intimidate the people instead of loving them, the angry aristocrat blinded the craftsman who built the church for him out of jealousy. When surviving under the invasion of the Tatars, he was deeply desperate for the world under the devastation. He felt that no one needed his paintings. Anyway, the paintings would be destroyed. Then they rebuilt and entered the endless cycle. Moreover, as a monk, he committed a murder.
All this happened in 1408.
After that, there was a long silence. Even his God might not know what he was thinking. The wandering entertainer accused him of informing him. He did not excuse him. Cyril confessed to him, but he did not respond. In the end, what made him cheer up again was a young man who had lost his parents and was able to support himself by spirit and lies. At this time, 15 years have passed since he started to be silent, and there are still seven years left before the end of his life.
Role:
The name of the movie is Andrei Rublev, but it happened concurrently, as well as Cyril's jealousy, separation, and his retribution after he ran away, the grudges and grudges of the grand duke brothers, and the stubbornness of the boy who cast the bell. Life.
Cyril and Danila are two monks who appeared with Rublev in the afternoon after the rain. Unlike Danila’s gentleness and loyalty, Cyril has a kind of Salieri to Andrei to Amandis. Jealousy. In the chapter on the wandering artist, Kirill hurriedly came in from the outside after the wandering artist was arrested. In a sense, it can be seen that this incident was based on Kirill's whistleblower. In front of Ofan Glek, Cyril made no secret of expressing his jealousy and disdain for Andre’s talent. This is the bright line, and when Andre and Danila bid farewell, they both expressed themselves. Being fascinated by the dog, and thus hostile to each other, this is a dark line. Three simple clips showed Kirill's self-use and calculations, but in the end he still failed to achieve his goal. He was dazzled by anger and jealousy, and ran away desperately after insulting everyone, even his own support. The dogs turned their backs on him, and it is not difficult to speculate about his retribution-in the second half of the film, he dragged his broken body back, repented and prayed for a place to live.
The duke brothers quickly came to disagreement, and under the bishop's compulsion, they vowed not to fight again in the church. On the surface, they kissed each other, but in fact, the brother was unilaterally insulted. He took the Tatar blood to wash this insulted land and burned down the church, but watching this Tatar looting the land and massacring his compatriots, in the slow motion, his expression seems empty and painful, he will Repent of the suffering caused by one's own temperament, perhaps.
The bell-casting boy’s father was a bell-making craftsman. His village was almost destroyed by the plague. The old craftsman knew the secret of the bronze bell. The boy told everyone that he had the true story. Because of the devastating consequences caused by the Tatars, the church needed to be rebuilt. So he got a job in making bells. He almost treated everyone around him harshly, and he also treated himself cruelly. The bronze bell that was about to be cast became the meaning of his life and the hope of everyone. It is this kind of hope that inspired Andre to return. Come to mankind.
There are also two important characters, one is a mad girl, she is a very special character, holding a bundle of straw when Andre started to lose her head, broke into the church where they worked and their lives. In a sense, she is Andre’s heart demon. Her madness reflects Andre’s anxiety and confusion. Her departure means that Andre is completely isolated from the world. At the end of the film, she wears The white clothes led the horse and appeared at the ceremony of casting the bell. He was clear and bright, like a Virgin, and also symbolized his salvation and reconciliation with the world.
The other is a person who took a balloon and fell to death at the beginning. This person seems to have nothing to do with the following story. It is just the director's wanton work, but it is actually a description of the temperament of this nation. The Russians seem to be indifferent on the outside, but they have incomparable enthusiasm in their hearts-even if they risk the world's unfavourable situation, they would rather die if you fail to succeed.
It cannot be said that the scene scheduling and actors acting skills of this movie are epic. Soronitsyn, who played Andrei Rublev, was the director's old partner later. Whether it was the innocence of the youth or the despair of the middle-aged, he was able to control it with ease. Andre’s friends, crazy girls, wandering entertainers, and Tatars, all seem to have come from history, without any sense of pretentiousness. Even the director who thinks that the acting is flamboyant and life-saving, but also the performance is very tense.
I used to think that black-and-white films are poorly-pictured and exaggerated works of actors' acting skills, which should be discarded after the appearance of color films, but "Andrei Rublev" broke this rigid prejudice, and the whole work is gray. The degree is extremely full and the details are rich, even more delicate than the "Stalker" filmed in the 1980s. What’s more interesting is that the 15th century was also the era when Russian iconography evolved from monochrome to color. At the end of the film, the details of the colorful "Holy Trinity" were very delicate and beautiful. The painter Feofan Glek used monochrome. The painting is famous, but Rublev is better at color...I don't know if this is a coincidence or deliberately.
In this film, there are not only static long shots with speculative meaning that the director is good at, but also powerful dynamic scene scheduling. Especially in the chapter of the looting of the Tatars, stories are happening in every corner of the screen. No matter how many times you watch it, you can see new content. The part of the clock is also the same, which draws the audience into one. In the world of the 15th century, there is an experience that is both a viewer and a participant.
Andrei Rublev is not a hero in Roman Roland's sense. After he walked out of the ivory tower and saw the truth of life, he did not love life. On the contrary, he chose to avoid the world and silence. When a person is born, the heart is soft. Gradually, life will keep it hurting and grow hard blood scabs to isolate the soul for protection. The portrait was burned, his compatriots were killed, and he also raised a killing axe. Andre felt that no one needed his paintings at all. Even if he painted the most beautiful Madonna, who was saved, what's the use?
He saw all the evils in this world. The evils released from Pandora's box in the age of myth to the world made him struggle, and he even felt that people themselves were the incarnations of evil. The last thing in the box is hope. The fact is that mankind will really be saved by something that seems illusory-the sound of the bell, the smile of the Virgin. So as to achieve the freedom and salvation of the soul. The civilization that has been built so hard has been destroyed, so start again, the church burned down, then rebuild, starting with the uplifting bell. Human beings are plagued by the plague and killed by aliens, so let the living replace the dead. Don't give up hope and live stubbornly on the earth. Isn't it the greatest happiness and beauty?
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