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For a person who has never seen any of tarkovsky's films, it is a painful pleasure to watch Carving Time. The abstruse and obscure artistic vocabulary and the gap in understanding often make people want to give up reading. However, if you persist, you will find that your pleasure comes from: you can use the power of your imagination to understand his theories and works without restraint, and then talk to yourself.

The most famous comment on tarkovsky is undoubtedly from ingmar bergman, a fellow master: He created a brand-new film language, capturing life as a reflection, just like a dream. My shallow understanding of this sentence is that his works not only reflect the reality of life itself, but also express an ideal and perfect life. Both reflection and dream are higher than life, which has an unexpected and exciting aesthetic impact.

A movie fan from the Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences wrote to him, saying: The audience who are used to the narrative, performance, characters and monotonous happy ending of ordinary movies are bound to be disappointed with tarkovsky's films. Obviously, tarkovsky's works can't enter the mainstream, although his two short films and seven feature films have won him numerous honors, such as the Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival, the International Film Critics Award at Cannes Film Festival, the Special Jury Award and the Best Director Award. Tarfsky and his works are not mentioned in the book "The Circulation of Light and Shadow ―― A Hundred Years of Film Art" written by China people.

His works are evaluated by many audiences as "too unhealthy", "unforgivable elitism", "extremely obscene, filthy and disgusting" and "unable to reach the audience at all" and so on. For these letters, Tarkovsky's attitude is "sorry, speechless." I think it's normal that we can't understand other people's theories and expressions, but if we write such a letter to an artist with high ideological level and far higher artistic level than ordinary people, it can only be said that it is a manifestation of ignorance.

His works obviously exist only for people who can understand his works. In tarkovsky's autobiography of art theory, a very important chapter is "art-ideal yearning". He systematically expounded his theories and viewpoints in the book. He thinks:

"An indisputable function of art is the concept of knowledge, but its effect is shock and catharsis."

"The most important function of art is communication, because mutual understanding is the power to integrate human beings; Moreover, the spirit of reciprocity is one of the main aspects of artistic activities. "

"Art, like religion, is a state of mind, not a way of thinking."

"Art is not a logical thinking, nor a set of behavioral logic. It only expresses its own beliefs ... we can't convince anyone in art. "

His theory and viewpoint will play a very important role in the history of film and even art.

Since the films made by 1895 and 12 Lumiere brothers were shown in the basement of Capesin Road 14 in Paris, France on February 28th, this great art form of film was born. The first movie "Train Entering the Station" surprised the audience who had no experience in film language at that time, and left their seats in fear and fled in panic. Today, movies have become a huge entertainment industry kingdom, which dominates the same aesthetic taste of most people. Billions of people scream for the same movie and are crazy about the same star. Constantly playing with skills and technical works makes the Los Angeles Times Book Review feel that connotation and conscience should be put first.

Because of photography, I am very serious about the part of "image presentation of movies" I was deeply impressed by many of his views on color: the use of color in images is obviously not as strong as possible. He said that if we care about the loyalty of depicting life, we should try our best to neutralize the color; If it is obvious that color is the most important comedy element in the lens, we can use it to strengthen the impact on the audience. This is a question of expressive force of color photography. But he also pointed out that although the world is colorful, the influence of black and white is closer to the artistic truth of psychology and nature, as if based on different audio-visual characteristics.

Tarkovsky doesn't believe that movies need music at all. However, he has never created any films without music. He thinks: Strictly speaking, the world transformed by film and the world transformed by music are parallel and conflicting. The well-organized singing world in movies is musical in nature, which is the real music of movies. My understanding is that the most perfect music he wants should be the voice that interacts with the audience through the combination of images and pictures. Any artist with this perfectionist tendency can create great works with a sense of harmony.

Tarkovsky's films have fantastic poetic features and lingering images, which make people hold their breath. Tarkovsky's words of encouraging his photographer Nick West left a deep impression on me: stay open to new ideas and go beyond your own limitations.