Offret: Where is thy halo?

It started with a tree, it ended with a tree...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• andrei
• tarkovsky
• caspar
• david
• friedrich
• bicycle
• tree

[fernk26]

as beautiful as film can be...as beautiful as art can get.....

[ceiliog]

The greatest last scene to any film I have ever seen. I could fill buckets if I'd collected all my tears.

[StefanGMeyer]

bella escena y bella musica! la fotografia de los filmes de Tarkovsky es mi preferida! pura poesia!

[PTFAbedeh]

@openmindset But the fantasy if it was fantasy moved Alexander just as if it were real. And the boy carries the buckets one at a time, stopping to bring each bucket step by step. It is not sad that the boy contemplates tradition. What's important is not that he will never understand the world through words, but that he is trying to understand, that he is striving for more. And that is a beautiful thing. For me, his contemplation is beautiful.

[exoplanet11]

Perhaps the very world we live in only exists and has beauty by virtue of some spiritual miracle performed by someone whom we'll never understand.

[openmindset]

@bijo2000 Yes, and very sad too.It was just Alexander's hallucination or fantasy, Like the entire last scene of the film. A boy that age could barely carry one empty of those buckets, much less 2 of them full of water. And were did that water water come from? Really sad, is that "the boy" just repeats an useless ritual that he learned would change the world. He also started himself entering a world of "words, words, words". His posture is relaxed and contemplative, Nothing needs to be DONE.

[hhenke1]

What a brilliant ending! At the beginning of the film Alexander tells his son the story of a monk watering a dead tree for years until it suddenly is full of leaves again. Then they both plant a dead tree. In this final scene, we see Alexander’s son watering their dead tree; and when the camera moves upwards and stops at the tree’s empty top, the reflection of the sunlight on the waves of the sea gives the impression of leaves moving gently in the wind. An incredible scene!

[bijo2000]

Just one of the most beautiful ending scene.

[phille22]

seriously. tears where falling down in the end of this.