[REVIEW] The Mirro: Finding lost time
The film The Mirror (1975) is an attempt to recreate the past and the dreams of a 40-year-old man named Alexei lying in a hospital bed, inspired by the fragmented memories of director Tarkovsky. An attempt to find, collect and organize memories between reality and dream, between subjective and objective.
Movie Review The Mirror (1975): Finding lost time
A great sensitivity of human time and battle with it. A vague fear of everything being lost in the near future. A rhythmic combination of music, paintings, poems, colors and black and white, stories, people and video clips of the war. A lost child dreams in order to find lost time.
The actress, Margarita Terekhova, played the role of both wife - Natalya and Alexei's mother at a young age (and Alexei's mother when she was old, played by Tarkovsky's own mother) by a very familiar excuse that was when he remembered his age. poetry and mother somehow his mother's face has always been Natalya's (meanwhile Alexei's wife sees his son more and more like him because they can never speak like normal people do) ).
Margarita playing two characters at the same time with no different appearance in a non-linear story makes The Mirror movie more ambiguous and elusive. But it is this appearance that makes us think more about something like a loop or reflection in which children will continue to make mistakes of their parents. We grow up and we suffer. Like the way love poems are sung
“And the sky opened before my eyes / While behind me fate followed / Like a madman holding a razor in his hand.
Black-and-white therapy scene at the beginning of the film for a young man with language difficulties, a strange appearance of a doctor in a poetic setting and the winds turning the grass into waves, the woman appeared in the old, gloomy apartment suggested Alexei's son Ignat read the letter written by Alexander Pushkin to Chaadayev
The memory of a boy named Asafyev whose parents died during the siege of Leningrad had always been turned 360 degrees when ordered to turn behind him, the image of the red-haired girl with her lips always cracked. It all appears like an impromptu piece of music, carrying a very personal feeling that all explanations are useless.
The poems written and read by Tarkovsky's father in The Mirror somehow create a rhythm that goes well with the entire movie, some of which tell love stories, a little bit of which remains. metaphors of time, life, life and death are encapsulated within it. Children are an extension of our lives and we are an extension of our ancestors. Age or time is just an ordering tool for the world and deep in time itself, they are empty.
“Death does not exist
All are immortal. All are immortal
There is no need to fear death at age 17 or at age 70
There is only reality and light
There is no death or darkness
When immortality overflows
If I live in a house, the house will stand
I will call back any century
I will step in and build a house
That's why his wife and kids sit with me at a table
So did my ancestors and descendants. ”
In The Mirror, Tarkovsky not only disrupts the order of time, but he eventually breaks it, he takes the children of the past to the current old mother, to inform her about the fire and be respond with an indifferent attitude, or when all three (the mother of the present, Alexei and I as children of the past) walk in haste together on a field of wildflowers.
All show us, time here is a joke. Characters seem to be straying and disrupting the order of time and they don't need to be aware of it anymore. Perhaps it was just a dream of Alexei (or Tarkovsky) where they could be beside their current old mother in the form of a child as they once wished.
"In that dream I will return to being a child and I am happy again because everything is still ahead, everything is possible."
The moment was pushed even further when Alexei was lying on the hospital bed letting a bird fly, when he returned not only in the form of a baby but in a short while he returned before he could. was born when his mother lay beside his father, both happy and thinking about their future child. And when their house was still there just a minute ago, it was only a rotten piece of wood.
It all happened in The Mirror in the same way that Proust (the author of the novel "Finding the Lost Time") once said: "The real paradise is the paradise we have lost"
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