The Sacrifice Comments

  • Koby 2022-02-07 14:49:21

    One of the most ingenious and complex films of the old tower, full of prayer and love, when we shun all the miracles in life due to loneliness, the wind of the Holy Spirit blows, awakening and resurrecting us, we will one day become a tree The luxuriant flowers and trees, when that day comes, ask the fire to burn up the space of illusion that imprisoned the soul, let us hug tightly and never be separated...

  • Jacques 2022-02-07 14:49:21

    It's the creator's doomsday plot, and it's a philosophical treatise - a Nietzschean despair, the sinking of free will (Japan and Australia are all like flight and weakness), a linguistic turn. The most amazing thing is that he insists on the art form he thinks is necessary with such a high intensity, the sacred sense of drama, like the building blocks made of chairs at the end, and the fire. This is the freedom of the creator, the hope and consolation he gives, like religion and...

  • Bettie 2022-02-07 14:49:21

    The posthumous work of the old tower, the 1986 Cannes Jury Prize. 1. Despair, prayer, faith, sacrifice, sacrifice, hope. 2. The shades and colors are changed, and the dark and cold picture exudes the apocalyptic atmosphere of the abyss. 3. Miniature houses are the same as [nostalgia], and miracles are revealed (floating holy communion) like [stalkers]. 4. The long mirror burning in the old house is amazing! 5. At the end of the tree of hope, think of [landscape in the fog]. 6. The filming was...

Extended Reading
  • Kobe 2022-04-19 09:02:55

    Dilemma and Salvation - About "Sacrifice"


    If you are a montage obsessed, then you must not be able to finish "Sacrifice".
    Andrei Tarkovsky likes to tell stories with long takes. Slowly advancing and zooming out, a person's lines can be spoken for several minutes, with few editing. You don't even see where the plot of the story is. But if...

  • Derrick 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    roundabout

    There is always a restrained beauty in Tarkovsky's vision. The restraint is icy and stunning at the same time. Such a sense of beauty has become a carrier for him to discuss many philosophical propositions, and even a channel for conveying deep pain. And the audience can feel empowered in...

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?

The Sacrifice

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Language: Swedish,Icelandic Release date: May 9, 1986