Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Ivan's Childhood

Andrei Tarkovsky's film Ivan's Childhood is a great improvement over his last film we watched, Mirror. I thought the little boy in the film was a total bad ass. He did not take crap from anyone! All these soldiers would try to make him be quiet and he would stand up to them. He also did not want to go to school. He wanted to keep fighting at the front like he was use to. This film was a lot easier to understand because it had a true story to it. It was easy to follow and it did not flip back and forth like Mirror did. I was upset with the ending of the film and finding out what happened to Ivan. I'm sure Kholin and Katasonov were affected by this because of the talks of adopting him after the war was over. I found that the shots were just like the ones in Mirror and he added a lot of weird camera angles that I liked. Tarkovsky added scenes with a "first person" look. He also added a few twist to the few angles which I thought were cool and added a one of a kind feel to the movie.
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  1. Amy MacemonJanuary 21, 2009 at 9:27 PM

    That little kid definitely had an edge. He didn't take nothing from no one! At first I thought he was lying and scheming to run away but he was really just the BA.

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  2. Austin T.January 21, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    I agree it had a much better story line, or atleast it was alot easier to figure out what was going on.

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  3. ishamoramaJanuary 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM

    And in a certain way Ivan almost becomes a sort of mentor and father figure to Galtsev. Did you notice how it increasingly becomes *Galtsev* who is trying to win Ivan's affection--and Ivan really only seems to have a peripheral interest in him (with his real affections being for Kholin and Katasonych).

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