Sacrifice is worthy of our tribute

Kamille 2022-03-23 09:03:16

(Not a film review, but the review is too long and short to put down)

The male protagonist uses a dream to create a world, in which he encounters a disaster, and is driven by Euromissile Crisis, so he goes to sleep with Maria in order to save him. In the end, he set fire to his home, left his sight, and the Son, who had been speechless, recovered his voice...

Filmed on a Swedish island, with Swedish actors performing in Swedish, the icy slow characters and the dark grand drama make people feel that this film is some kind of Chekhov and Ibsen hybrid, Tarkov The combination of Skye and Bergman... I still admire the high aesthetics of Tarkovsky's lenses, and I still feel bored with the discussion on Nietzsche's philosophy and Kant's philosophy at the level of the third-year philosophy class (the film also introduces how to say at the end. All a bit inexplicably oriental...). But I give this film five stars, because in the end, the male protagonist still set fire to his home, all of them, actively and decisively!

The memories in "Mirror", the entanglement and helplessness in "Stalker", and the pain and intoxication in "Nostalgia" have all been burned to ashes. Tarkovsky set a fire to burn his own spiritual world in his last film, then dedicated the film to his son "with hope and trust." I have no feelings for his religious complex, even a little disdain for his mysticism, but he finally bravely told the next generation and the world: it doesn't matter, these can be burned, I can sacrifice, I even have to sacrifice, the sapling Can grow up, children can find language! I admire that kind of courage. When that baby finally spoke up suddenly, I was really happy for him and for the world. "In the beginning, there was a way, why, Dad?" Good question! Maybe there is no Tao at all, maybe only yin and yang, maybe only quark, maybe only 42, in short, Dad has burned them all. Dad's sacrifice, their world's sacrifice, is what keeps you alive. They must sacrifice! Sacrifice is worthy of our tribute!

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Extended Reading
  • Ali 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    In Bergman's Faroe Island, and Bergman's photographer, Lao Tower made the film with the last force of his life. In the beginning of a long-shot dialogue, everyone holds hope until death, and everyone believes that it will become a reality. The accusation gradually became self-talk: human beings more savage than savages, civilization built on overthrow and destruction, use of inventions as weapons. And when nature is manicured into a garden, when the original beauty of man is retouched, everything seems to be more beautiful, how many people will cry because of it? I have been involved in various fields of knowledge, and finally ended with casting shackles, feeling the sadness of life changes, and finally ending with burning down the house. The artist-creator's view of the world ultimately seeks recovery through sacrifice and departure, just like a miracle created by art and faith. The burning of "Nostalgia" is reproduced, the floating of "Mirror" is reproduced, and the long shot at the end of the film is silently enshrined. PS: The painting "Pilgrimage of the Three Doctors" by Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Margarette 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    It's a movie that is bound to happen in a lifetime. When I saw the stills of burning the house a few years ago, I didn't know Tarkovsky, and I couldn't understand the Golden Pavilion. However, on this day last week, I met a tree by the sea, independent and green, rooted in warm brown rocks, at that moment I was like "waiting for my husband who returned from the war on the platform of the railway station", it was It touches life more closely and finely than now. Going back to this little tree, I thought it represented what Alexander called "the ritual of the living system." It's the rhythm of life that you depend on and belong to while waiting for change, the house that hasn't been burnt, the wife and children, the motherland, the washing of hands under the candlestick, the bar of soap that Maria handed him. It is the flow of life. It is also the repression before the rebellion, and it is something that will not become a static memory imprinted in the bottom of my heart. What I remember is the boy's flickering room, the loneliness and the eyes, the girl's body and the mirror, the long shot of day and night, and the rough hand protecting the flame...I thought again, People's real pursuit may be to "destroy" life again and again, and then look at the tree that is watching all this.

The Sacrifice quotes

  • [last lines]

    [sub-titled]

    Gossen: In the beginning was the Word. Why is that, Papa?

  • Alexander: I studied philosophy, history of religion, aesthetics. And ended up putting myself in chains. Of my own free will.