63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage
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Is This Really Super God?
The film is about a feud between two aristocratic brothers. The grand Duke of Moscovy and his rebel brother. He wanted them to continue working on their own art, but he didn't want them to go and work for his brother. So he blinds them all. Which ends up with this amazing scene of this bottle of milk. This kind of white like liquid bleeding out into the sort of mossy pools which are all around. And I think ultimately they would always forgive him that. It's super God. But the like editorially, it's very pro God. Yes.
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