The Cinema of Tarkovsky


It is so pleasant here

This house reminds me of grandfathers house

I really liked it

So I have decided to build one just like it

I don’t like innovation 

 

What film is that from

I do not have a clue David 

Solaris 

Never heard of it 

It was made about five years after 2001

2001

The Kubrick movie 

I could not make head or tail of it 

Not many could 

Was Solaris like 2001

Yes and no 

 

 

How long have we been travelling

Two years 

The journey will take us six years 

Or it might finish tomorrow 

Time travel is like that 

Unstable 

Yes 

Who said our journey would take six years

You did do you not remember 

Yes 

Everything has to have a beginning and an end 

That is the way I work 

Who knows we might have already arrived and are returning 

That is a possibility 

 

The movie is in the blue bank it was one of my first choices 

Why do you like it so much 

Poetry 

Poetry 

It was poetical film 

Was the movie about poetry 

No it was a science fiction film 

We are travelling in time

I do not find it very poetical 

We share the silence 

The ship hums 

Nothing changes 

Each day is the same 

There are no days 

 

 

What did you think of the movie Jane 

It was very haunting 

I think it was about our inability to hide the past 

I still miss Krull 

So do I 

That was the purpose of our mission 

I know 

You had been killed on your previous journey 

Infinity 

And I was ordered to travel back to the minute before you died and place you in the E Pod 

And here I am all in one piece 

The mission was a success 

Partially 

Why 

I could not rescue Krull as he died at exactly the same moment as you died 

Why did you choose me 

Orders 

No it was more than that 

I had a choice Krull or you 

And you chose me 

Yes 

Why did you choose me

Because I knew Krull would understand