"Russia is a genius of imitation."
These are the words of the Frenchman who followed the film to the end of the first half of Ark of Russia.
The movie "Russian Ark", if viewed from the perspective of historical materialism, is actually not advanced or active in the ideological core, and in the eyes of the Chinese people, it may be a "beautiful picture" movie and cannot be evaluated as a god work. But in the eyes of Russia and some countries - it is so unique and beautiful, and every frame is very historical and artistic.
Such an artistic sense, leaving aside the national system, I personally feel that domestic films are the most scarce. In the comparison with Russian films, I think that the continuity of domestic films is very poor, modern technical means such as editing are obvious, and the film expression is unclear or even the simplest truth cannot be fully told. And Russian films, although equally unclear in their intentions, can only comprehend the spirit contained in the between them after careful tasting, but they are not reasonable--Russia will not be reasonable, and what they pursue in all artistic acts is only the art of reaching the pinnacle.
On this premise, "Russian Ark" is the boldest and most artistic film in Russia since the twenty-first century, and in terms of content, I think almost no film can break through this milestone.
Most of the stereotypes of Russians are "fighting peoples", but if you are lucky enough to watch "Russian Ark", you can understand that half of the Brute Force of Russians comes from the cultivation of climate and half of the historical inheritance, and history has given them the deepest pain.
Russians have been confused since ancient times. In the time of Kievan Rus' they were confused by their backwardness; during the reign of the Golden Horde, the tyrannical rule of the Tatars made them lose their way forward; the fall of the red star made them lost their way in the conflict of time and history.
The French stayed, the Russians went to the Soviet Union.
The Frenchman who runs through the film has undergone a shift from "looking down on Russia" to "not understanding Russia," and his views represent the general European view of Russia. Because of the vastness of the territory, Asians think he is in Europe, but Europeans think he is in Asia. This nation, which lives in an extremely cold land, has given birth to a melancholic and gentle culture.
One of the best aspects of the film, I think, is when Empress Catherine II abdicated, she ran from small steps to big strides in the snow and has since withdrawn from the stage of history. The emperor who once made a big fuss even threatened to "give me two hundred years, I can make the whole of Europe crawl at my feet" finally could not resist the years, and the snowflakes blurred her distant figure and footprints in the snow, but they could not blur the heavy strokes she left behind in history. In the picture is the dead leaves, cold and miserable weather, is the era of Russia.
The departure of Catherine the Great
The diplomatic scene depicted in it is even more magnificent. Emissaries from Persia pleaded for the Tsar's alliance, and the young men of the palace watched the foreigners say things they could not understand, and the French sneaked out of the palace.
I don't understand religious painting, but one of the most important aspects of this movie is religious painting, and I have a feeling of regret. In addition, there are coffin repairers, the talks of the Winter Palace, the tsar's ball, and all kinds of things, which confirm that today's Tsarist Russia is about to be overthrown, and new forces are rising, but between the sorrows there is confusion and even overwhelm. And the beginning is the dancers, dancing with false masks, and then when the ball is over, the French stay, and the Russians go to the Soviet Union.
Don't ask the end, don't know the way back. On the last foggy river, the Russian Ark floated in the long river of history.
Russian art is a ruined art that transcends reality and is below reality, and even the depiction of rivers is shrouded in gray fog. The most daring thing about "Russian Ark" is that it tries a long shot for the first time, a shot to the end, combined with history, and the more people who understand it, the more sad they are, and the people who don't understand are dizzy by the camera and miss an artistic feast. The art of many countries is positive and optimistic, but Russia does the opposite, so there are such depressing but beautiful works.
Russia's thousand-year history has always been in a state of not daring to ask the way forward and not knowing the way forward. What is the way forward? China knows, Britain knows, the United States knows, Russia doesn't know. The countries where the Red Star first rose were eventually invited back to capitalism, leading to the confusion of a modern group of Russians.
This nocturnal incense, which blooms between suffering and suffering, gently grows on the corpses of other flowers.
Russia is a night incense, gently playing the violin in the midst of silence, commemorating all his past memories.