[PrismCrystal]

This reminds me of the wide range of reactions sparked by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror, his most avant-garde film. On one hand, you can put that film on before a gathering of fairly open-minded cinephile friends, and even they might reject it as artsy-fartsy or unintelligible. On the other hand, a number of ordinary proletariat people in the USSR wrote to Tarkovsky to say how his film touched them deeply and felt directly relatable to their own lives.

[aredox]

I happened recently with my girlfriend and I after watching The boy and the Heron, the last Miyazaki.

I was disoriented, trying to make heads or tails of what I just saw, and she was completely happy of all the poetry and symbolism she just saw.

Some art pieces are not meant to be overanalyzed. They are meant to be felt.

[yzydserd]

The oft quoted phrase: “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”.

[wetback]

I had the same experience with the movie. Even though I knew up front about Isao Takahata’s passing, I struggled to make all the imagery fit into my expectations of a “coherent” story. At one point I just had to let go of my search of any overarching analogy, and just enjoyed the fireworks.

[dang]

Starting an ideological flamewar like this is abusive on HN. Since we've already asked you not to do this, I've banned the account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[aprilfoo]

> OF COURSE it was popular with communists

A long story short: it wasn't. Tarkovsky suffered from censorship and lack of support for the production of non propaganda movies, like many others.

> Edit: just started reading the movie's Wikipedia page

Watching movies and reading about them before commenting on them is usually a good starting point.

[PrismCrystal]

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[beepbooptheory]

You really cracked the case here wow!