Jonas Marczy
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“A masterpiece is a space closed in upon itself, not subject to either cooling or over-heating.
Beauty is in the balance of the parts. And the paradox is that the more perfect the work,
the more clearly does one feel the absence of any associations generated by it. The perfect is unique.
Or perhaps it is able to generate an infinite number of associations – which ultimately means the same thing.”
-from Andrei Tarkovksy’s “Sculpting in Time“, p. 47
One of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Tarkovsky is probably the one person I’d relate all my narrative theories to. If it comes to dissecting a narrative and making it workable for a film, this is the one book to look at.
In regarding the rhythmical pressures, it illustrates clearly how film is dependant on time and uniqueness (as it relates to Deleuze’s idea of difference) and thus explain how and why clichés must be dismantled and repackaged to defy the symbolic qualities that this might evoke.
According to Tarkovksy, a piece must be intellectually inaccessible to truly evoke and emote.