Nostalghia--Unforgettable And Haunting Past

Casper 2022-06-15 15:36:51

I'm fed up with all your beauties.

I don't want to take it anymore. All this beauty of yours... I can't take it anymore.

I just can't tell you this. It makes me feel gloomy, grey, lethargic, vacuous, full of dank mists and fantasies about women.

To say I'm proud of it... Rather, just say I've come to live with it.

The sound of the film is like the sound of burning tobacco.

The homeland is forever a myth. It's a place that is meant to abandon you. Mostly because it has hosted you, like water, like a womb.

"It's the so-called healthy who have brought the world to the verge of ruin."

Some films are dedicated to the innermost personal intensity. Some are there, transcending the human soul to the ciel. both irresistible.

I like it when I'm all hallucinated but the movie stays sober and goes on.

I don't know if this is how Russians felt, but he depicted it well enough. It makes me want to repeat, to inflict this pain... on you. And I know he's not the one. He's just the one on whom I inflict this pain. And, to this day, I believe in this love of unshakeable pain...

Every movie tells a story about death. Death is what defines us. Utmost.

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Extended Reading
  • Alia 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    The perfect composition at your fingertips, the homesickness of countless long shots. Tarkovsky put the complex feelings and fragmented memories of going home to the country in this movie. Carving time.

  • Demetrius 2022-03-21 09:02:48

    Dark and damp. Sovietized Italy through Tarkovsky's mirror: Unfamiliar "third-party" space. Eternal worshiper of the earth spirit wandering like a cloud. Only madmen have grasped the truth, so they are saints, and Andre and Dominic are the incarnations of the old tower outside and inside respectively. Voluntary death: With Beethoven's symphony self-immolation in the square, there is a hint of Nietzsche's philosophy. The cause of loneliness is the rejection of boredom and vulgarity

Nostalghia quotes

  • Domenico: Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Here's my new pact to the world: it must be sunny at night and snowy at August. Great things end, small things endure. Society must become united again instead of so disjointed. Just look at nature and you'll see that life is simple. We must go back to where we were to the point where you took the wrong turn. We must go back to the main foundations of life without dirtying the water. What kind of world is this if a madman tells you must be ashamed of yourselves? Music now!

  • 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...