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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
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作為一個(gè)纖維藝術(shù)家,看到電影中諸多描繪織物的場景,按捺不住內(nèi)心的激動(dòng)想來粗略地總結(jié)一下織物與文字的緊密聯(lián)系,只可惜我對亞美尼亞文化和圣經(jīng)故事都所知甚少,沒法進(jìn)行更深入的剖析。
巴特曾指出“text"以及 “textiles”都源于同一個(gè)拉丁詞根”textere”, 意為“編織、連接、建造”。英文中的“monostich”指“一行詩”,盡管它聽起來像是在說“一針”,而”distich”和 “tristich”分別指“兩行詩”和“三行詩”。類似的奇妙聯(lián)系同樣能在其他語言中找到,比如印度教中被稱作“tantra”的經(jīng)文,其詞源來自于紡織技藝并指代“解釋”和“相互關(guān)聯(lián)性”;梵文中的“sutra”(佛經(jīng))意為“線” ——一本書中可以包含多段佛經(jīng),正如一張布由無數(shù)條線組成。在《石榴的顏色中》,織物是詩歌、民謠、神話,也是護(hù)身符和時(shí)鐘。我不了解亞美尼亞的纖維史,但想必它是十分豐富悠久的,畢竟它的鄰居土耳其早在7000BCE就開始織麻布了。電影中展示的玲瑯滿目不同種類的織物承載著個(gè)人和民族的歷史,宗教信仰,激情與愛欲,生與死,更是在祛除男性凝視這個(gè)濾鏡的情景下,重點(diǎn)對焦在女性的能動(dòng)性及創(chuàng)造力上。導(dǎo)演絲毫不吝嗇家庭勞動(dòng)的鏡頭,盡管這些看似繁瑣單調(diào)的工作被電影語言超現(xiàn)實(shí)化了。女人和孩子們制造掛毯、蕾絲、服飾,也染羊毛、剪羊毛、刺繡、針織,而這些活動(dòng)往往是集體化的。修道院的僧人們也會(huì)一起干活,曬書釀酒割草。電影節(jié)奏緩慢而且刻意舞臺(tái)化,可以被切割成無數(shù)個(gè)GIF,每一幀都像是一幅religious tableau。勞動(dòng)的過程也是勻速緩慢的,室內(nèi)的掛毯像鐘擺一樣來回?fù)u動(dòng),不斷去重復(fù)某個(gè)動(dòng)作其實(shí)是在創(chuàng)造一個(gè)思考和冥想的空間,所以日常勞作即是修行,賦予凡人神性,而當(dāng)人們都聚集在一起時(shí)他們便可無限接近耶酥。
這種集體的凝聚力又似乎透露出前蘇聯(lián)的影子,影片中大量線條、拱形和矩形的拼貼讓人忍不住想到那些constructivist paintings.
說到宗教,影片中女性的形象更是被高度神性話了。比較明顯的一個(gè)例子是紡織蕾絲的幾幕。女人手中的蕾絲和身上的服裝由白到紅到黑,象征著三個(gè)階段:純潔的處女——新婚——喪夫,也含蓄地表達(dá)了女人的心路歷程:期許——愛戀——悲悼。這里的女人仿佛海倫和佩內(nèi)洛普的化身?!兑晾麃喬亍分?,海倫織著她的網(wǎng),一件深紅色的袍子,一件匯聚了無數(shù)血腥掙扎的袍子,而佩內(nèi)洛普需要用不斷地紡織、拆線、再紡織的方式來避開追求者的騷擾,等待奧德修斯的歸來。柔軟的織物能夠提供一種保護(hù)和愛,但它同時(shí)也蘊(yùn)含著潛在的暴力;紡錘既是護(hù)身符也是武器,passion and suffering確實(shí)是基督教永恒的主題。人們依賴于羊毛的親膚和溫暖,同時(shí)也在宗教儀式上殘酷地宰殺羔羊,雖然這之前他們不忘給羊們系上漂亮的絲帶。虔誠的修女準(zhǔn)備獻(xiàn)身給基督了,她們認(rèn)真地制作儀式上要用的毯子,將熱烈的目光投向她們所崇拜的對象卻又立馬轉(zhuǎn)過頭去。此刻對耶穌的熱愛本身就是一種受難,一種幾乎無法承受的興奮與狂喜,使得耶穌也不得不用毯子把自己遮了起來。修女是耶穌的新娘,縱橫交錯(cuò)的warp and weft織成了布——男女結(jié)合了。這是一種唯有詩歌能與之比肩的強(qiáng)烈與曖昧:
你是火
你身穿...
你是火
你身穿...
火焰
你是火,你身穿火焰
你是火,你身穿火焰
你是火,你身穿一片漆黑
兩種火焰之間,哪種能讓我承受?
如果說織物象征著生與繁殖(穿著民族服飾跳舞的演員是歡快幽默的),那么屏幕上的詩句則代表了死與衰敗:“我們在尋找一處愛的避難所,但相反,那是條通往死亡之路?!?相較于黑白的文本,織物的鏡頭總是色彩濃郁的,像石榴的顏色一般,這樣的對比也反映出一種基督教對愛欲的期望:它應(yīng)該是崇高而熱烈的,并且時(shí)刻處于一種高純度高飽和的狀態(tài)。我想帕拉杰諾夫本人應(yīng)該是一個(gè)非常熱愛生活的人,他歡慶人生卻也不忘讓觀眾看到那些陰郁消極的碎片,他電影語言中鮮明的儀式感滿溢著愛。正如韓炳哲所說,沒有儀式感的愛欲是不成立的。電影中不斷吟唱著“世界是一扇窗”,電影是世界中的這樣一扇彩玻璃,折射出纖維的詩性和時(shí)間性。
世界是一扇窗
而我厭倦了這拱券
透過它看的人被燒得焦透
而我厭倦了這些灼傷
昨天好過今天
而我厭倦了明天
人不可能總是千篇一律
而我已厭倦任何改變
人不可能總是千篇一律
而我已厭倦任何改變
Sayat Nova說過:
我的苦難
已經(jīng)漫溢
情節(jié)的推動(dòng)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?;鸬奶刭|(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”?!笆竦念伾卑岛囊饬x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。
"He is like a god to me, a god of the aesthetic, master of style, one who created the pathology of an epoch." -----Pasolini
其實(shí)調(diào)整好心態(tài)以后,還是可以耐心看完的,畢竟畫面確實(shí)存在著較強(qiáng)的形式美感,如果配合葛穎副教授的解讀來看的話效果更佳,但我非常好奇葛穎這些解讀是完全他自己的理解還是哪里看來的,他如何有信心確保自己的解讀是準(zhǔn)確的?詩電影作為一極為特殊的電影類型還是極富其美學(xué)意義的,即便它如何晦澀。這里再順便補(bǔ)充一下本片的背景知識:①本片和《八部半》《去年在馬里昂巴德》并列為三部世界上最難懂的電影②本片也叫《薩雅·諾瓦》,因?yàn)楸憩F(xiàn)是這位吟游詩人的生平③電影現(xiàn)在的刪減版本和片名由來自于導(dǎo)演的老師尤特凱維奇④導(dǎo)演在斯大林、勃列日涅夫、安德羅波夫時(shí)期都坐過牢⑤本片在2015年上海國際電影節(jié)放映過⑥導(dǎo)演和塔可夫斯基惺惺相惜,《吟游詩人》即為致敬老塔的作品⑦1990年導(dǎo)演逝世于亞美尼亞首都,被授予烏克蘭和亞美尼亞人民藝術(shù)家稱號。
象征、符號、儀式、圖像構(gòu)成的一個(gè)自成一體、理想的、象征性的秩序世界。美麗絕倫。贊嘆能有這樣的電影拍出來!藝術(shù)神品!
為了體現(xiàn)出詩人的一生及其作品,導(dǎo)演做了5點(diǎn)嘗試來進(jìn)行宗教畫式畫面統(tǒng)一:1人物面部不顯露表情;2入鏡人物及焦點(diǎn)物品不重疊;3服裝及配套動(dòng)作象征化.還原宗教畫中人物形象;4顏色調(diào)配鮮艷醒目,凸顯主體.配色對應(yīng)文藝復(fù)興前大部分教堂宗教版畫;5場景古老化及祭壇化.效果即是本片,勿陷入苦思
石榴的顏色,就是血的顏色,它帶著利刃的創(chuàng)痛。
神作!看完之后,隨意的選擇一個(gè)時(shí)間點(diǎn)切入,仍舊像是第一次觀看,仿佛剛看過的電影已經(jīng)是落滿塵埃的回憶。絲毫不能理解里面各種意象和隱喻,但是深刻的知道這是一種類型的極致,一個(gè)情懷的極致。
幾乎無法用語言去表達(dá)對本片的觀感,帕拉杰諾夫試圖用一種靜態(tài)的影像去表達(dá)詩人的異想世界,詩的語言和影像的語言契合互補(bǔ)著達(dá)成一種至高的美的享受。宗教和民族性的文化氛圍在帕拉杰諾夫的影像世界是如此強(qiáng)烈,帕拉杰諾夫是屬于天才之列的導(dǎo)演能把繪畫、音樂以及多種藝術(shù)融合為一體構(gòu)建出高度風(fēng)格濃縮的影像世界。對于語言的轉(zhuǎn)換無疑是一件難事,詩歌的精髓更是不可被翻譯,而電影中則用獨(dú)特的方式重現(xiàn)了諾瓦詩句所描繪的景像,把詩人的的一生虛渺的縫合起來。電影的每一個(gè)物件的擺放都是富有隱喻和充滿視覺的沖擊,這樣的一部電影很難去完全理解,但正是這樣獨(dú)特的民族性和對詩意的膜拜從而使電影成為一次跨文化的對話和個(gè)人心靈的朝圣之旅。聯(lián)想導(dǎo)演命運(yùn)多舛的一生,不得不感嘆天才往往都是在苦難中孤獨(dú)的看著自己的才華燃燒殆盡,前蘇聯(lián)電影的榮光。
中途隱約能感覺到影喻亞美尼亞宗教史 累心 同樣是為詩電影 老塔流出的是奶 帕爺流出的是血呢。象徵術(shù)式華麗至此 令我明白為何會(huì)有嘴巴或眼睛長到手上的這種錯(cuò)位符號:恰恰是源初的雙性同體的靈魂 導(dǎo)致單一個(gè)體承受不起欠缺的感受 但能量又往往轉(zhuǎn)化到了必須不能直接達(dá)意的雙重壓抑的詩學(xué)文體中。
沒有看《被遺忘的祖先的陰影》時(shí)那種強(qiáng)烈的感受,比較喜歡詩人童年的段落,屋頂上無數(shù)書的書頁被風(fēng)吹動(dòng)真是無可言喻的神妙。色彩豐富、場景怪異神奇,詩人和神靈/宗教、愛情/情人糾纏不休, 影片將傳統(tǒng)生活儀式化,在不時(shí)出現(xiàn)的反復(fù)和靜觀中展現(xiàn)其神秘和美。不斷滲出的紅色真是寓意豐富呀。
【原名薩雅·諾瓦/9.0】用如詩般的柔情描述了一場關(guān)于“政治吟唱”的夢。在《石榴的顏色》中,帕拉杰諾夫冷漠地呈現(xiàn)了一個(gè)制度上的現(xiàn)實(shí):在這看似自由的王國里,每個(gè)人各司其職,勤勤懇懇,卻可悲地缺少了激情。政治暗喻濃郁(難怪68年政府審查被禁播改名)內(nèi)容和畫面都有著濃郁蘇聯(lián)詩電影的美。
石榴的顏色也是血液的顏色,帕拉杰諾夫?qū)ν甑幕赝?,那些美好的日子,徜徉于書本的日子,青年時(shí)代的愛情冒險(xiǎn)跌入世俗權(quán)力的無奈,老年自我流放尋回內(nèi)心寧靜,其中的裝置藝術(shù)和象征布景是對現(xiàn)實(shí)藝術(shù)的反叛也是對苦難歲月的控訴,和帕索里尼一樣,帕拉杰諾夫的世界也是一場重返童年的冒險(xiǎn)
很好玩啊,我想把這樣的類型命名為隨筆電影,就像備忘錄文字整理成集,片段的連接,每一段都像是一節(jié)懸浮的車廂,共同構(gòu)架一座徜徉在想象之中的列車,影像本身的形式美也足夠讓人震撼,真正的詩與獨(dú)白。此外,一直覺得意象的解讀是種私人化的體驗(yàn),怎樣的解讀都是有趣的,那些直接下定論說看不懂裝逼的人大概更多是執(zhí)著於一個(gè)固定的答案而不願(yuàn)意去隨心所欲地解讀看似晦澀的內(nèi)容吧?那樣也太死板了,尤其是在這樣一部自由的影片里。向創(chuàng)作者索要意義是件無聊的事,意義在觀眾與創(chuàng)作者的共同完成中方顯其真義。
10.0;除非你是我,才可與我常在
總算看完了。我想這只是一首詩,不是其他。
比起塔可夫斯基更富有宗教性的精神追溯。兩種機(jī)位的固定鏡頭【平視大概意味著囚禁,那么可延展至畫框外面的既象征著通往天國的神秘與宿命?】。宛如德里克賈曼《卡拉瓦喬》的造型藝術(shù),精神上也頗有幾分親緣性?!耙粋€(gè)詩人會(huì)死,但他的繆斯不死”。莫不是帕拉杰諾夫生前用影像與詩留下的招魂咒語?
修復(fù)版用“美如畫”形容真是一點(diǎn)都不過分,太漂亮了?。ǜ兄x老馬?。。┻@部電影真正讓人感到電影是作為一種語言而獨(dú)立存在,有自己獨(dú)有的表達(dá)維度,因?yàn)檫@部電影是沒辦法用講的來描述的,只能通過觀看來體驗(yàn)。。。記不記得第一次讀到讓自己無言的詩是什么感覺?看完本片,就是這個(gè)感覺
平靜凝固抽象 靜物畫 宗教畫 儀式感 石榴 愛 痛苦 血都是一個(gè)紅顏色 遁入空門沒有前途不如大膽向愛 也不是所有詩人都注定孤獨(dú) 哦也 女主第二件灰羽毛衣服好美
極端形式主義詩電影&真·不明覺厲·燒腦片,恍如一場盛大而神秘的祭祀儀式。平面化影像,靜態(tài)封閉式構(gòu)圖,跳切與動(dòng)作重復(fù),僅少量旁白與吟誦+聲畫錯(cuò)位+木偶式演員似布列松,傾倒美學(xué)同老塔。| 浸紅,晾書,染布;乳房,螺殼與牛奶;愛的蠟之城堡面對熾熱火焰;夜鶯和鳥籠;詩人會(huì)死,繆斯永生。(8.5/10)
把電影某方面質(zhì)素推到極致,但又不讓人覺得乏味,一般我都會(huì)列入到創(chuàng)作的靈感百科全書序列里。
詩歌的視覺重組,GIF電影,熱門微博,看不懂都說美,像美術(shù)學(xué)院畢業(yè)作業(yè),想仿照這個(gè)形式很容易,十首詩配十個(gè)畫面,可以是油畫,也可以是裝置藝術(shù),故弄玄虛即可。時(shí)尚大片最適合用這種形式。