Nostalgia

“Feelings unspoken are unforgettable.” Andrei Tarkovsky, a man who truly devoted himself to art. Once, someone I knew told me they avoided Tarkovsky because his films were “too complex.” But I think art itself is complex. What a work of art means to me might mean something entirely different to you. Art is subjective not because it hides meaning, but because it reveals different meanings to different people. Nostalghia blends memory and reality so seamlessly that it becomes emotionally exhausting, almost like living inside someone else’s longing. And when you begin to understand the pain beneath it, you realize how fortunate we are — to not live in exile, and to still have the possibility of returning home.