screenplay: linear
exposition: non-linear
10/10 editing and sound design
2024 top 4 favourites
screenplay: linear
exposition: non-linear
10/10 editing and sound design
2024 top 4 favourites
“words can’t express everything a person feels. words are flaccid.”
poorly trying to put down into words a few thoughts that came up while watching this chef d’œuvre. in this exact order:
- watching Tarkovsky’s movies feels like, if time stood still. a feeling of stillness i have only come across during meditation
- we observe. we don’t try to understand.
- during the phone call to his son, when Alexei mentions the red haired girl he was in love…
“I had left to kill myself, and I came back with mulberries. A mulberry saved my life. A mulberry saved my life.”
Too often, doubt is presented as a negative feeling, but here it is a beautiful and hopeful thing