Do not believe in fairy tales and miracles, man cannot be called human

Jin Xiaoyu translated Robert Bird's "Andrey Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema" and read it the day before yesterday, just in time for the end of the month and the Spring Festival, and the public account sighed for two consecutive days of topics that had nothing to do with reading.

Just this morning, I couldn't help but write down these words in notepad:

Is the New Year really good?

When I was a child, the New Year was always the most anticipated moment. A new pair of socks, a plate of dumplings that are usually rare to eat, you are satisfied.

When I was a child, pressing old money was a rarity.

Writing here, I suddenly feel that the feelings in my heart still exist in my heart, after all, it is the first day of the first month of the Taisho, don't be unhappy because of your own truth.

Continue to share the hand-held records of Jin Xiaoyu's translations.

P s: The following dark green font is the original text, and the reading notes are displayed in normal font.

Throughout history, artists have repeatedly discovered that they are the most realistic when they place the shackles of observation and recording in the most prominent position, that is, when they subordinate reproduction to presentation.

First of all, we must enter the door of art, have an artist foundation, and then we will have such artistic ideas and artistic performances. In reality, the ugly "artistic" acts have nothing to do with real art, but some clowns are there to twist Nini's foreign faces to win the eye.

The screen does not simply illuminate objects, it creates a space where the viewer encounters reality.

A book, especially a good biography, has some effect.

I consider myself part of the people. I live in my own country, thinking about the same processes and problems as my contemporaries; I love, hate, and annoy in the same way, so I think I express the people's thoughts.

Tarkovsky is undoubtedly a man of high INTELLIGENCE and high emotional intelligence, which is evident from what he said to the interviewer. To put it bluntly, he is a very political man, at least to achieve his own goals, he can do so with ease. What is remarkable is that political correctness is only a means for him to express himself freely in his own films, not to pander to the "holy will".

In a word, Tarkovsky only expressed his own ideas from beginning to end. No one can represent the people. From this point of view, the emergence of the concept or species of "representative" is one of the products of genetic mutations that human beings deceive themselves. Sometimes, it is inevitable that more representatives will think that this is a dirty and dirty existence.

There's a big difference between the way you imagine the home you were born into and the home you haven't seen in years, and the way you think about it directly after a longer period of time.

After Tarkovsky said this, he found that he had not considered this thinking question about "home" before. Home has always been a concept that is often hung on the lips but is ambiguous, sometimes the concept is simply a house, sometimes this concept is equivalent to parents...

In this way, I suddenly understood more deeply what "University" said about "qualities, knowledge, sincerity, righteousness, self-cultivation, Qi family, governance, and peace in the world", of which the "family" in "Qi family" is closer to the concept of "home" mentioned in Tarkovsky's words.

The stage of social freedom, when man no longer has to worry about his daily bread, the roof over his head, the security of his children's future, when he will be able to explore the depths of his own heart with the same energy that he once devoted himself to external freedom.

Tarkovsky's prophecy, I don't know if it was fulfilled in the Soviet Union, or on the wreckage of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. However, in this land that has cloned the "Soviet" model almost from the beginning to the present, his prediction is still in the prophetic stage.

Without the enormous expenditure of spiritual power, it is impossible to acquire the knowledge of life. There may be significant losses on this path, but the achievements will be deeper and richer.

This is Tarkovsky's insight.

I think that nowadays, there are more and more walking dead, and the lack of mental strength is one of the important factors that should not be underestimated. Spiritual poverty naturally creates a great emptiness in the body and brain, and this emptiness can only be filled by all kinds of garbage - garbage thoughts, garbage books, garbage food, garbage information... What is the difference between a human world occupied by garbage and hell?

Tarkovsky emphasizes that in the search for something personal, he finds something objective and verifiable—not a repressed memory but a clear vision.

Tarkovsky emphasized that my understanding is simple and abnormal - walking on the road, always walking on the road.

Let the footsteps feel, let the eyes feel, let the whole body feel, those because of the strangeness and freshness of the visual impact, completely abandon the past, let the memory return to the original normal, stable state.

In this way, a person can shake hands with himself and make peace, can go hand in hand with himself, and can share a short time of happiness with himself but cannot be changed.

Without believing in fairy tales and miracles, man cannot survive and cannot be called human.

Maintain childlike heart, curiosity and imagination.

[This sentence is also the source of the title of this article.] 】

After reading it, I wrote down my reasons for recommending:

Jin Xiaoyu finished reading the book, although it was very professional, even strong to some obscurity, but still felt the smoothness of the translation from the words.

If you use this book as a "film reading guide", it is still somewhat esoteric.

Worth a read! Specially recommended!

Happy Chinese New Year! Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, the year of the tiger is fierce!

Spring Festival on February 1, 2022