ajay124
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hitensitapara
With the passage of time people have become comfortably numb. Stories and images of violence no longer create any empathy for the victims. The audience, for cinema, television and newspapers needs this onslaught of violence like a drug. It spices up there bored and jaded lives.
Even on television 'war' is now beamed like it was a blockbuster film. Since the early '80's as television evolved and began taking hold, even newspapers have become louder and more sensational. Seeking new sensations is the mantra. Thoughts and emotions have taken a backseat. Instant highs and instant gratification are in the driving seat. The destination? A world full of perfect consumers stripped off their 'human' values and qualities.
YouTube - Tarkovsky on Cinema‏
ANDREI TARKOVSKY'S CINEMA OF SPIRITUALITY
QUOTE from this link. Completely agree with the writer. Highlights mine.
"In the entire history of cinema there has never been a director, who has made such a dramatic stand for the human spirit as did Andrei Tarkovsky. Today, when cinema seems to have drowned in a sea of glamorized triviality, when human relationships on screen have been reduced to sexual intrigue or sloppy sentimentality, and baseness rules the day - this man appears as a lone warrior standing in the midst of this cinematic catastrophe, holding up the banner for human spirituality.
What puts this director in a class all his own and catapults his films onto a height inaccessible to other filmmakers? It is, first and foremost, his uncompromising stance that man is a SPIRITUAL being. This may appear to be self-evident to some, and yet it is just on this very point that 99% of cinema fails. Man's spirituality is quickly and conveniently pushed aside in favor of other more "exciting" topics: man's sexuality, man's psychology, sociology and so on. In today's cinema, if spirituality is dealt with at all, it is never treated as the foundation of our existence, but is there as an appendage, something the characters concern themselves with in their spare time. In other words, while in other films spirituality may be PART of the plot, in Tarkovsky's films it IS the plot; it permeates the very fabric of his films. It can be said that his films vibrate with his own spirituality. As he himself states, in all of his films the main characters undergo a SPIRITUAL crisis."
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