Re:The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
by Apocryphon on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:47PM
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A good line about Tarkovsky, from an essay about Metal Gear Solid of all places:
> But there’s a serenity to Myst that you can’t really find in any major videogame today. It’s videogame Tarkovsky, really: The whole point of the game is experiencing the quiet, looking at everything. So Myst is boring, but only in the way Tarkovsky and Russian novels are boring. (The problem isn’t that they’re slow. The problem is that the world has made you too fast.)
> But there’s a serenity to Myst that you can’t really find in any major videogame today. It’s videogame Tarkovsky, really: The whole point of the game is experiencing the quiet, looking at everything. So Myst is boring, but only in the way Tarkovsky and Russian novels are boring. (The problem isn’t that they’re slow. The problem is that the world has made you too fast.)
https://ew.com/article/2015/09/04/metal-gear-solid-strangest...