{"id":1024,"date":"2020-02-06T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:14:26","slug":"film-recommendation-%d0%b7%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%be-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2020\/02\/06\/film-recommendation-%d0%b7%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%be-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Recommendation: \u0417\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u043e (Mirror)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andrei Tarkovsky is one of, if not the most famous Russian film director of all time. One of his most beloved films by Russian people, <em>\u0417\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u043e (1975)<\/em> is a semi-autobiographical sequence of clips playing with memory, war, and daily life in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mirror - Burning House\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-Q7cvTh_jU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The film features stunning creative techniques, such as Tarkovsky&#8217;s famous long shots. The one above is considered not only one of his best shots, but one of the best in film history. Other techniques include color schemes and themes such as the mirror, time, and poetry, which is read by different characters and narrators throughout the film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-61.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-61.png 772w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-61-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-61-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-61-389x300.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The plot is kind of tricky to explain. A dying poet is the narrator (something that isn&#8217;t revealed until the end), but the story is far from linear or clear. The scenes switch between different time periods, and it&#8217;s sometimes difficult to keep up with which one you&#8217;re actually in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m no film buff, but this is definitely one of Tarkovsky&#8217;s most important works. He&#8217;s a hard director to understand no matter what, so you might as well start here! The Russian is fairly hard to understand, and I did need the help of subtitles to understand what was going on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Tarkovsky is one of, if not the most famous Russian film director of all time. One of his most beloved films by Russian people, \u0417\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u043e (1975) is a semi-autobiographical sequence of clips playing with memory, war, and daily life in Moscow. The film features stunning creative techniques, such as Tarkovsky&#8217;s famous long shots. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2020\/02\/06\/film-recommendation-%d0%b7%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%be-mirror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Recommendation: \u0417\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u043b\u043e (Mirror)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,83,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced","category-film","category-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}