Let everything that’s been planned come true.
Let them believe.
And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy but the friction between their souls and the outside world.
And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children because meekness is a great thing and strength is nothing.
When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies he is hard and insensitive.
When a tree is growing it’s tender and pliant, but when it’s dry and hard, it dies.
Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. What has hardened will never win.
- from Stalker (1979)
The Killers-Part I
Andrei Tarkovsky
The Killers-Part II
Tarkovsky co-directs film school production based on the American noir classic
1
I don’t believe in omens or fear
Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too.
No point in fearing death at seventeen,
Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light;
Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
We’re all already on the seashore;
I’m one of those who’ll be hauling in the nets
When a shoal of immortality swims by.(via callmephilotes)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Eyes cast down, a quiet time for reflection in the rain.
Mirror
Nostalghia
