Andrei Tarkovsky: Difference between revisions

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Gibaryan and Hari in ''Solaris'', Porcupine in ''Stalker''.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Stalker cannot drive in a straight line, even on railroad tracks.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: ''Stalker'' is this. Stalker has just returned from prison, presumably having been sent there for illegally going into the Zone. His daughter, Monkey, is crippled. Writer has come to the Zone because he no longer feels inspired in his writings. Professor wants to get a Nobel Prize and be respected by other academicians. Stalker's wife, despite arguing with Stalker, is the closest in the film to a happy person because she is the only person whose wishes have been granted.

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: One of the soldiers trying to prevent people from approaching the Zone sees Stalker's car, but does not think that Stalker is hiding under the car.

** The Sino-Soviet Border War.

* [[Take That]]: Older Burton's film of his interrogation as a younger man in ''Solaris'' is a attack on [[Gos Kino]]. Burton is clearly a Tarokvsky self-insert and the interrogators are metaphors of the Soviet film censorship committee. Burton tries to convince his questioners of the validity of all these wonderful things that he has seen on Solaris but the interrogators reject his claims. When they are shown a film of the events, they see nothing extraordinary. Tarkovsky is saying that the film censors are stupid philistines and try to censor his works only because they do not understand art.

* [[The Oner]]: a regular feature of his films are very long one camera shots.

* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: Kris Kelvin tries to kill one of the projections of Hari by stuffing her into a rocket and firing it into space. It does him no good.