1. What's with Tarkovsky and horses? Andrei Rublev, Solaris...... I love Tarkovsky's films, but the horses really puzzle me. They feature briefly but leave such strong impressions, yet their appearances seem to be for absolutely no apparent reason. Why? I read somewhere (or maybe someone told me) that the horses (esp for Solaris) represent nature, or Nature, which man has lost touch with in his world of art and technology etc, but frankly that just seems trite (or is it?).
2. Has anyone watched Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup (Time of the Wolf)? Please, please tell me that the scene with the horse, down on the ground and struggling on its side, and then knifed in its neck with the blood spurting out, is not real. Tell me it's a CGI horse or something.
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For some reason, that post made me think of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, posing as a Horse & Hound reporter, asking questions about horses in a film set in space...
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Hey Jenna,
(1) Also, Ivan's Childhood, the horse grazing, with an apple cart and apples on the ground....Not sure what the horse fixation's about....
(2) I've seen the Haneke, and it looked awful real to me, and though I'd love to believe otherwise, I suspect it is, I don't know.
Sorry. :-)
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Hey Girish!
Sorry for the long delay in posting your comment - it's been pretty crazy......
(1) Of course!! Absolutely - how could I have forgotten Ivan's Childhood. Well, there you go - what is the deal with all the horses.
I remember being fixated by that scene in Ivan's Childhood - the way the horse grazed on the apples on the ground, crunching this one, a bite from that one... doesn't it remind you of Andrei Rublev picking the apples from the barrels in the church?
(2) Oh maaan.
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Hey Daryl... happy to see you here. See, horses come up in all sorts of weird places in movies!
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Re: Time of the Wolf... I rather doubt it's faked. Haneke's never been shy about whacking animals in his films.
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Hi Steve
Thanks for this - yeah, I'm coming to that conclusion too. :-( But at least I'm doing a better job convincing myself that the dead budgie (laid out to rest by Benny) is a wax model (it is, right?!) - it must be.
Though, come to think of it, the scene with the bird in the wooden shed - gosh. I never thought I could say this, but that was an awesome budgie scene.
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