Rob Brinson

Literature and media

Feb- 24 –2011

Andrei Tarkovsky

            The first movie from this director I watched was Andrei Rublev, which was not what I expected it was a medieval setting in Russia. This movie has a lot of symbols in it like the horse and the pond and seems like it would be very accurate depicting the poverty scene in Russia. Which is also shown in the other movie I watched Andrei Rublev where people are constantly living in what seems like war torn landscapes from the abandoned industrialized Russia. In this movie there is a lot of imagery to soak in with very quiet subtle noises that kept the attention very strong with the presented scene. The movie Solaris that follows this directors vision of intense visualizations of the moment by not being shy with the scene he has created and gives the view the time it takes to soak in the environment and get an actual feeling of what is going on in the movie and gives off the right mood for these types of movies. How visual and creepy the modern world would have thought to be like. Very much like Stalker, Solaris has the long visual pauses with very low-key dialog for epic moments instead of getting all heated up the characters are almost in a constant state of shock. The scenes in Stalker of the ally way are amazingly lighten up much like every other scene. A viewer gains the most information on the characters by the slightest movements they make and how they react on their alone time or in time of travel when the characters are at the state of ponder and all giving out looks in their eyes that shows their inner self. Many of Andrei’s movies go with the theme of change and end of a life. In these movies it felt like all these people