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"This film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the film maker has tried to recreate the poet's inner world through the trepidations of his soul, his passions and torments, widely utilizing the symbolism and allegories specific to the tradition of Medieval Armenian poet-troubadours (Ashough)."

"I am the man whose life and soul are torture."

"Books must be well kept and read,, for books are Soul and Life. Without books, the world would have witnessed nothing but ignorance."
 

As a young boy Aruthin helps lay out books on the roof in order that they may dry out from some kind of inundation.

"From the colors and aromas of this world, my childhood made a poet's lyre and offered it to me."

Women clean their fancy rugs. Other women make the fancy rugs. Men dye the thread that goes into the making of the rugs.

A man removes the cut-off head from a chicken.

"Saint George, we implore you, let your good fortune, your kind thoughts spread over our family, on our people, along with your white horse be a stronghold for our people, give prosperity to this family, give them good thoughts and prosperity".

Aruthin looks into rooms where men get massages from servants. Black mud is put all over the men and then a servant helps wash the mud off the men.

Aruthin looks into a room where a nude woman is laying. (Brief nudity.) (And another shot of brief nudity.)

Men play music for the men going through the treatment.

"We were searching for ourselves in each other."

And then there is the art of lace making.

Next comes some dancing.

"In this healthy and beautiful life my share has been nothing but suffering. Why has it been given to me?"

Now there are scenes shot in the outdoors, including those involving horses.

"We were searching for a place of refuge for our love, but instead, the road led us to the land of the dead."

Horsemen ride from right to left paralleling a fortress wall.

There's a death scene with a cloth dummy representing the dead.

"You abandoned us and went away, but we the living wrapped you in a cocoon so in your new world you would burst out like a butterfly."

"How am I to protect my wax-built castles of love from the devouring heat of your fires?"

"You are fire. Your dress if fire. You are fire. Your dress is black. Which of these two fires can I endure?"

There is dancing around a number of hanging rugs.

"Go then, selfless heart and find your place of refuge. I will go and search the monasteries one by one."

Thirteen religious men are busy eating pomegranates. Other men are stomping grapes.

"Beautiful one, come quickly, quickly come, o beautiful one . . ."

Man and woman getting married.

Christening of a child.

"Brothers of mine in soul and blood, heaven has sent upon us to this world, grief -- grief -- grief. Brothers of mine in soul and blood, grief, inconsolable grief has been sent to us from heaven today. On this night of revelations at Etchmiadzin, died our Saint Father Lazarus, Catholics of all Armenians. Brothers of mine in soul and blood, heaven has sent upon us to this world, grief -- grief -- grief."

A man digs a hole within the church. Sheep come into the church where the man digs a hole.

"Brothers of mine in soul and blood, grief has sent to us to this world from heaven, grief -- grief -- grief. Brothers of mine in soul and blood, grief -- grief -- grief. Grief is sent to us from heaven today at Eatchmiadzin. During this night of the revelation of Saint Sarkis, our Holy Father Lazarus, Catholics of all Armenians, has died."

"I asked for a shroud to wrap the dead body, instead, I was given frenzied convulsions of their living bodies."

"Where can I find selfless love?"

More prayers to God. Women bring into the church their detailed rugs they made.

"In the Sun Valley of the distant years, live my longings, my loves and my childhood."

"You are fire, you're dressed in black. You are fire, you're dressed in black. You are fire, you're dressed in black."

A camel is in the next scene of people making raucous music.

A family has a huge piece of flat bread. The boy tears off a piece and eats it. Now they have a bakery full of bread.

The top piece of a building is being put in place but is dropped and breaks.

Three dogs are used in a scene.

"I saw everything clear and strangely blunt, and I understood that life had abandoned me."

A bloody scene comes when men kill and butcher three sheep. Blood runs over the steps.

"We have slain the sacrificial lamb, boiled the meat and distributed it at seven places. Come hither, come. " The bloody heads of three sheep are displayed.

Wife: "When my husband and I went to Tiflis, we went to the Turkish square, where there was a public bathhouse. We had a good bath."

Husband: "What are you saying woman? You're letting everyone know that we've been to the bathhouse. Take these roosters and give them to the maidens."

Wife: "As we came out to eat some barbecue, we heard that a troubadour had come to town. We went to see him, but he was no troubadour, but a cobbler."

People sing: "As long as I live, my life is all yours, my love. My life is all yours, how can I help it, my love?"

A white-haired man says to another man: "Go amongst the people and may we always hear of your triumphs, your kind deeds and your well-being. You are the salt of the earth. And may God of speech be always with you. Go amongst the people."

A horse is used in the next scene. He is pulled along by the man sent out to go amongst the people.

A soldier sits on a different horse and prepares to fire an arrow from his bow. The face of a stained-glass picture falls from the window.

"I hear calls of homecoming and hope, but I am weary. Who has spread all this sorrow upon this old and weary earth?"

"The world is like an open window. And I'm weary of passing through it. You wound the one that looks through it. I'm weary of the tomorrows and even its gardens are full of sorrows. "

A female human body is buried.

"The bread you gave us was beautiful, but the soil is even more beautiful. I'll go and soon turn to dust. I am weary, I am weary."

A woman with a knife later pours blood over a man who might have looked like Christ.







旁白摘記轉(zhuǎn)載于 Sayat Nova (Color of Pomegranates) (1991) - Vernon Johns Society
                              http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/color%20of%20pomegranates.html


圖片來自 Tumblr http://owen110.tumblr.com/archive (我自己的博客)

留在內(nèi)心深處的一部片子，以前推薦給朋友，他們都說看得悶死了。
那我只有默默地喜歡
迷戀石榴滲出鮮血的那個(gè)開頭。
找不到合適的語言來形容那美麗的一個(gè)個(gè)鏡頭，那濃郁的色彩和民俗風(fēng)情。
三年沒看過了，記憶有些模糊，就寫下腦海中最直觀的印象
紅：石榴的紅，火的紅，民族服飾的紅，血的紅，激情和創(chuàng)痛的紅
白：人之初的白，乳房的白，臉龐的白，宮廷帽子和蕾絲的白，純潔愛情的白，天使和羊的白
黑：人生的黑，宗教服飾的黑，死亡的黑

獨(dú)白簡單而詩意，再貼上來，重溫一下！

我是一位生活和內(nèi)心充滿痛苦的人。石榴的顏色，就是血的顏色，它帶著利刃的創(chuàng)痛。
　　我生活在一個(gè)富足的家庭，從小受到父母的無上寵愛。我從小就生活在嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)而溫和的宗教氛圍之內(nèi)，在寺院中博覽群書。我們民族的生活是多姿多彩的，女人們赤足清洗著地毯、男人們把線染成各種鮮艷的顏色，我們向騎白馬的圣喬治頂禮致敬，通過浴室的窗戶我見到了世界上最完美的乳房。
　　我成長為一個(gè)蒼白清俊的青年，學(xué)習(xí)音律的同時(shí)，我也在生命中第一次愛上了一個(gè)女孩，她是我一生的女神，我們在對方心里尋找著自我。在富饒美麗的生活中，我得到的只是痛苦。我們享受著宮廷一般的社交、游玩、騎獵，但內(nèi)心是無限的空虛。我們?yōu)樽约旱膼蹖ふ乙粋€(gè)庇護(hù)所，但正相反，這是一條通向死亡谷之路。我怎么用蠟做成愛的城堡，面對你熾熱的火焰：你是火，你的衣服是火；我是火，我的衣服是黑色。
　　為了尋找自己的庇護(hù)所，我尋找了每一間修道院，我成了一名神父。我們的父親，我們的宗教領(lǐng)袖拉扎路斯逝世了，天上仁慈而權(quán)威的父親失去了最得力的權(quán)杖，我在圣堂中埋葬了我們的精神之父——葬禮上擠滿了溫順的羔羊。
　　我仿佛回到了童年，又見到慈愛的雙親，狂風(fēng)驟起，將我從夢中驚醒。我看清了一切，奇怪的是很不文明。我明白是生活拋棄了我，我開始了自我流放的游吟詩人的生涯。
　　我是一個(gè)生活和內(nèi)心充滿痛苦的人，在祖國的大地上流浪也無法止歇我的憂傷，我知道，等待我的最終將是死亡。
　　我去了，兩個(gè)小天使把我?guī)У酵ㄍ劳龉戎?，他們還沒有忘記帶上我的木琴，也許我將在天堂為我的父親歌唱。

石榴的顏色是本屆電影節(jié)到現(xiàn)在為止最讓我動容的一部片子
這部片子本身，鄙人拙見（沒看簡介和影評）就是一部對于中世紀(jì)宗教的反思和呈現(xiàn)。

那些繁復(fù)的服裝上的裝飾，群羊，三位一體，那些尖頭的鞋子，活生生得像是從中世紀(jì)manuscript里走出來的一樣。甚至把二維的繪畫，不符合透視，臉譜化的人體全部帶到了三維的空間，讓扁平化的人物有了自己的深度。影響最深刻的就是男主上馬，將身體轉(zhuǎn)向攝影機(jī)，這是完全模仿當(dāng)時(shí)臉對著畫面，然而雙腳對著側(cè)面的畫法。這種讓圖畫上的人物與現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中完全不同，但卻又相仿的人類形象，讓信徒可以將自己和圣靈有所聯(lián)系，但又不至于懷疑他的神圣性。

然而這就聯(lián)系起了本片的故事線。男主無非就是在尋找圣靈，自我中無法自拔，直到生命的最后一刻也不知道何處去尋找所謂“selfless love”（無私的愛）。然而全片講述了他與自我欲望（包括那些吃餅的橋段，拒絕修女的主動現(xiàn)身（但卻得到了圣母mary，又牽涉到mary即是基督的丈夫，也是他的母親一說），和對divinity的追求。讓我不得不相信男主即使詩人，也是personification of Jesus Christ。然而這樣說來，那我覺得本片讓我覺得Christ 更像一個(gè)真人。他不再是manuscript里other worldly的divine spirit，他只是一個(gè)不斷在找尋自我中迷茫并痛苦的靈魂。所以貫穿全片的十字架，無時(shí)無刻的在折磨著他，直到影片的最后。他說“I am weary. I am weary". 是啊，他一生的折磨并非是把他釘在十字架上的那些給他的，而是他自己，然而也正式因?yàn)樗耐纯嗪驼勰?，才讓他有了解救眾生的能?br>
但是你卻又不得不承認(rèn)，本片對于基督教的態(tài)度是嘲諷的。至少他對于大眾的這種朝拜心理并不完全認(rèn)同。三位一體卻被用來宰割代表基督的羊，圣洗約翰的腳卻是為了釀葡萄酒（也是eucharist的重要組成部分），面包（囊）被孩子玩耍和食用。

還有很多細(xì)節(jié)讓畫面不但美麗也充滿深度。比如不斷在畫面中出現(xiàn)表示時(shí)間流逝的鐘擺或者搖擺的人，落在金屬盤子上的染料奏出充滿節(jié)奏的音樂聲，兩個(gè)天使帶來的天堂之門，和刺繡精美的花布。。。。

可無限刷。求清晰源

寫完可以開始研究影評和相關(guān)的歷史背景！好片才會讓人有琢磨的意味。

情節(jié)的推動用了兩條線，明線的時(shí)間順序使暗線存在的用意變得晦昧，暗線從“水”到“火”最后來到“土”的變化很有古希臘哲學(xué)的味道。水的特質(zhì)是其自身的可塑性，它充斥了詩人的童年，導(dǎo)演費(fèi)了很多筆墨去描繪曝書、沐浴以及清洗毯子，流淌的水布滿了畫面。火的特質(zhì)更多的是其對外部的影響，它在詩人成年之時(shí)來到影片。字幕明示的流俗意義上的時(shí)間順序很容易使觀影者忽略“你是火”這一畫外音，筆者亦注意到電影進(jìn)行到此時(shí)畫面中方出現(xiàn)紅色。結(jié)合其游吟詩人的身份，導(dǎo)演要表達(dá)的是他在這一階段的傳道。最后一個(gè)“土”的環(huán)節(jié)是最難理解的，對應(yīng)在流俗時(shí)間觀上是詩人的老年。年老的詩人時(shí)時(shí)回憶起童年往事，此時(shí)非常有意思的一幕是石榴被碾出了紅色的汁水，紅色的汁水流淌著滲入了土地，同時(shí)電影進(jìn)行到詩人的老年之后開始出現(xiàn)大片的黑色，筆者遂推斷暗線的最后一環(huán)是“土”。“石榴的顏色”暗含的意義是詩人童年“水的特質(zhì)”與成年“火的特質(zhì)”在老年合二為一并且融入到“土的特質(zhì)”中去，從時(shí)間觀上可以理解為詩人在經(jīng)歷了“水”的童年、“火”的中年后來到“土”的老年并且迎來死亡，這里倒又有了宗教里“一體意識”的味道。