Monday, January 19, 2009
Mirror
Today's film, Mirror, was quite an unusual one. I have understood most of the films we have watched so far, and if I could not understand a part, other parts of the movie would help connect it for me. This movie just seemed to take off in every direction. One second its black and white and then another its colored. Don't get me wrong here, it adds a one of kind feel to the movie. I just could not follow this movie. I got lost and once I was lost I could not figure out what was going on. One scene that really caught me was when the lady and the young boy go to the other Lady's house. Just everything about that scene I did not get. Then there was all the mirrors throughout the film. Obviously with the film being called Mirrors, there is going to be something in it that involves mirrors. Once again, I just could not connect the mirrors to the film. This is one of the only movies I have ever watched that I have been completely stumped on what was happening to who. Maybe someone who understands it more will be more positive about it, but I think most of us if not all of us would not put this film at the top of their lists.
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We'll talk more about it tomorrow--but one thing to keep in mind is that Tarkovsky is not trying to present the viewer with a complicated puzzle that needs to be solved. Yes, there are a few things (such as figuring out the double roles played by a couple of the actors) that can help--but Tarkovsky is instead focussing on his own attempt to replicate the process of memory in all of its vividness, all its bizarreness and all of its unpredictability. Yet, as I hope to try and show, you'll see that it's all rooted in a very genuine artistic conception that is anything but random.
ReplyDeleteTarkovsky apparently said at one point that people found his films difficult because they were trying to view and interpret them as adults would rather than as children.