63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage
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Is This a Silent Film?
Takoski always is very adept at like setting things up in the frame, but it's most kind of extreme in graphic. They're much more sort of jarring and it's almost like a silent film in some of its scenes. It's completely magical. What does it mean? I don't know. Well, it's his dream. Another one he's dreaming of like killing Germans. In the dreams, he's a child. And in the action sequences, you know, there's a scene where like they're being shelled by the Germans. He's just standing bolt upright. Like furious, the dastard Germans.
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