I also feel that the color movie switched to black and white during dreams. I just got a funny feeling, every time this transition happened, that I was witnessing something from the past. Of course they could have also been epiphanies. Either way I feel that it was not a part of the present time in the movie.
Monday, January 19, 2009
The Mirror
As I viewed this film I couldn't help but wonder what was going through Tarkovsky's mind. I could not decide whether there was one story with multiple plots or many different stories. I thought about this for a while, as I was about to come to a conclusion I was given an answer that I agree with. I believe that the woman was both the mother and the wife.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I too am not completely certain as to what determine the switches from black-and-white to color--but my hunch is that he chooses the medium that best suits what he's trying to convey artistically. Early in his career Tarkovsky was very sceptical of the use of color in films (because he asserted that we don't "think in color"). But he later somewhat changed that position. *Mirror* was filmed at a point in his career when he was making the transition.
ReplyDeleteI thought that it was switching to black and white to show a past event. And you're right about the mother and wife.
ReplyDelete