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 you can watch one of his films quietly, you will find that the film is not just visual art, he can also be poetry and philosophy.
Wu Xiaodong said that a person who can watch "Sacrifice" a dozen times must be a very quiet person. Silence is really a virtue. It's like the old tower tells you in blockbuster black and white and jiggles that people have been expecting.
I've always had this feeling, like standing on a train station platform, looking forward to something. Everything that happens is not the real thing, but the expectation of life, the expectation of something real. Something important, isn't it?
Otto told Alexander on his birthday. At that time, he and his young son planted a tree. The son, who had just had throat surgery, waited in silence to speak. It looked as pristine and hopeful as the chunks of green used in the old tower.
But when you walk on the road, you will lose your way, which is very dangerous. People look forward to it, and try it, but keep falling into despair. Alexander's wife cried hysterically, please, help us, at least do something.
Do something? technology? Or war? When technology is used to create the comforts of life, our civilization is just garbage. Sitting alone on the grass and muttering to himself, Alexander was deeply confused about society and could not do anything about it. People are powerless, they can live a peaceful life on an isolated island, while the radio is spreading the cloud of nuclear war. It turned out that death and sin were all around.
It's the same everywhere, where could it be better?
It's just that we are all blind and cannot see the truth of the world.
Alexander asked in a conversation with Otto, and then made a confession. The purpose of this is not only to question and to criticize. For Tarkovsky, it's not enough to ask questions, he tries to think about redemption.
Because our civilization invaded too many things, say, the charm of nature. When Alexander repented before Mary and begged her for help like a child begging a mother for shelter, I suddenly thought of the question that plagued Liang Ji and Liang Shuming for generations: will the world be a better place? We think that in our lives we constantly set up many feasible goals, for comfort, for salvation, and for consummation, but we cannot stop the world from collapsing. So why are we still trying? Is it for freshmen? Alexander eventually set fire to his own house, and he chose nirvana for the world. He was loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital, passing a tree planted with his son. The little boy is watering the tree. Just like the reincarnation that Alexander talked about at the beginning of the film, Laota played a very warm humor.
Only some places have changed. In the same green, the little boy lay under the tree and began to talk.
In the beginning it was language. Why, Dad?
Do human beings also ask such questions when facing God? Language is an interesting gift. However, you can give us many other gifts, why should it be language? Moreover, when we use it, we often hurt each other and confuse ourselves.
But in the end we have to find the truth and then act according to the truth. This is what she said when discussing the meaning of faith with a friend. Then what about following the truth? When faced with the concrete problems of the world, can abstract truths explain everything? Civilization is a web of thousands of knots. How can we sort it out so that we can finally stop ourselves from being afraid? And the question is, what are we afraid of?
Fear is not a good thing. To make matters worse, people can go wild in fear. Friends have their own predetermined conclusions, but as an atheist, I can't agree with them. Focusing on the afterlife can easily make one lazy. Laziness is also not a good thing. After all, people long for redemption. Therefore, the tower will leave so many shots to the oil painting called "Leinardo". Only in this way can the so-called hope and confidence become meaningful existence.
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