The Sacrifice

the most personal is the most creative final film of Tarkovsky, it is a statement, a feeling and a goodbye to cinema and life, dedicating your final moments in life dealing with mortality, getting that inspiration for your final story was truly brilliant, I've never felt this kind of emotion before, this is new, and I feel this may be the only time I'll ever experience this kind of feeling, melancholy yet I'm in awe with this deep sense towards mortality that literally breaks me down, nothing could have done this better than you so together in all, this is about a man who deals with his philosophical questions towards the world, the scientific questions, his comments about his past and what he has been missing for his entire life, it's basically what he is to the world, and of course I find that sad, he has all this things just like Otto said but again he has his own reasons and belief in life too this deeply explores the self sacrifice as a need to go against of course, our own selfishness and mysterious sides of human existence or what it means to be a human and being part of humanity, because if we only do those things, we basically lose our humanity, yes we may be able to invent new things, yes we've made a choice for our own benefit but this film completely says, fuck those things I'm gonna sacrifice myself because I can, because I want to, and that's just so peak, like an unconditional love, is what I would call what Alexander did here I'd go on and say Andrei Tarkovsky is my favorite director now, not only he is able to tackle what really are my interest but he did it emotionally too, cinematography was immaculate in every film of his, not to mention his dialogues are my favorite thing in all of his works, the statements that he is able to put out are so packed withing each films that I literally sit for at least half an hour to think about what I've witnessed, the emotional aspects of his film reaches me like no other does, firstly I feel this deep sense of empathy in Ivan's Childhood, like paternal in some ways for Ivan, Solaris literally said to me, look in the mirror and understand yourself, your soul, your connections and the very reason of your existence, and of course Mirror it's literally a love letter to life, what it means to live, memories and regrets, Stalker speaks for what it means to be afraid, to be human, you are human because you are afraid of yourself, your desires, for what you truly are, Andrei Rublev speaks of what it meand to have faith and perseverance in a long period of time, what it means to believe in yourself and do what you always wanted to, while Nostalgia tells us that your lost soul will forever haunt you because it lost its home, The Sacfrice connects with us through the fact that we all bear the ability to have a unconditional love, to sacrifice for someone, to our love ones, even for our country, maybe even the whole world, maybe you're like Andre Tarkovsky who sacrificed for cinema and his life, I'll forever carry your messages, the feelings that it holds, definitely my favorite