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"Las pocas veces que he sido feliz he tenido profundo miedo ¿cómo iba a pagar la factura?" Alondra Isabel + México + 1995

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– Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[agnesvarda]

“Солярис (Solaris)”, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972.

[wkwz]

Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[matt-mercer-deactivated20231105]

To ask is always the desire to know. Yet the preservation of simple human truths requires mystery. The mysteries of happiness, death, and love. To think about it is to know one’s day of death.

Solaris | Солярис (1972), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[robertmitchum]

See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: Yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the earth. Maybe we are here to experience people as a reason for love.

Solaris Солярис dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[robertmitchum]

SOLARIS Солярис dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[davidlynch]

Solaris / Солярис (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

It may seem that the nature scenes that introduce the film are too lengthy, but the layering of these scenes, which depict a certain farewell to nature on Earth, creates the emotional basis of the story after the main character is sent up to the space station, and tortures the viewer with an incredible nostalgia for Earth’s nature, a feeling akin to being homesick. Without this long introduction, you cannot make the audience experience the actual desperation felt by the people trapped on the Solaris station. 

I saw this film late one night at a screening room in Moscow, but while I was watching it, my heart was aching from an incredible longing to return to Earth. Just where is scientific progress leading mankind? This film manages to capture perfectly the sheer fearfulness. Without it, science fiction becomes mere fancy.

These thoughts were racing through my mind while I was a captive of the screen.

Tarkovsky was sitting in the corner of the screening room watching the film with me, but he got up as soon as the film was over, and looked at me with a shy smile. I said to him, “It’s very good. It’s a frightening movie.” He seemed embarrassed, but smiled happily. Then the two of us went to a film union restaurant and toasted with vodka.

Tarkovsky, who does not usually drink, got completely drunk and cut off the speakers at the restaurant, then began singing the theme of Seven Samurai at the top of his lungs. I joined in, eager to keep up.

At that moment, I was very happy to be on Earth. — Akira Kurosawa 

[netals]

THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) dir. Robert Eggers

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THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) dir. Robert Eggers

[movie-gifs]

Eviler than the Devil. Boredom makes men to villains.

THE LIGHTHOUSE 2019 | ROBERT EGGERS

[beastheads]

[demifiendrsa]

Junji Ito made a short synopsis manga for The Lighthouse for its Japanese theatrical run. It’ll be published in theater pamphlets sold at Japanese theaters on July 9, 2021.

[nattawins]

Can you give me some ideas? Let’s see. I think a surprise event would be too much. Just say, “I like you. Want to go out with me?” Isn’t that good and simple? Right. You like simple things. I’m not sure if she would, though. I like you. Want to go out with me? Hey, that voice tone was great.

[nattawins]

I just didn’t want Jae-won to find out how stupid I was. I really didn’t. I hated that the girl Jae-won met in Yangyang was all fake. And I didn’t want Jae-won to find out why I ended up going all the way to Yangyang. I didn’t want you to find out because it’s embarrassing and humiliating.

[storge]

Cuties!

[nattawins]

The guy who won her over more than a decade later? That’s me.

[nattawins]

You’re going to disappear again. Don’t go.