Day 147: Arguing About Tarkovsky
After a film club screening of "Stalker" in Yaroslavl, the club's host asks two members, one young and one middle-aged, what they thought.
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Dialogue
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A
Ну что, свет включили, все проснулись? Делитесь впечатлениями, только честно, без скидок на классику.
Well then, the lights are on, is everyone awake? Share your impressions, and be honest, no allowances for it being a classic.
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B
Честно? Не то чтобы скучно, но трое два с половиной часа идут через траву, а в итоге ничего не происходит.
Honestly? It's not that it was boring, but three men walk through grass for two and a half hours, and in the end nothing happens.
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C
Ничего не происходит? Да там в одном кадре происходит больше, чем во всём твоём сериале про супергероев!
Nothing happens? There's more happening in a single shot there than in the whole of your superhero series!
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B
По-моему, вы преувеличиваете. Я десять минут смотрел на воду с монетами и шприцем и так и не понял зачем.
I think you're exaggerating. I spent ten minutes looking at water with coins and a syringe in it, and I never understood why.
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C
Это величайший фильм в истории кино, и точка. Его надо не понимать, а чувствовать.
It's the greatest film in the history of cinema, full stop. It's not something you understand, it's something you feel.
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A
Стоп, вы оба спешите. Олег, «величайший, и точка» не аргумент, а ты, Максим, зря ищешь сюжет: Тарковский его нарочно прятал.
Hold on, you're both being hasty. Oleg, "the greatest, full stop" isn't an argument, and you, Maxim, are looking for a plot in vain: Tarkovsky hid it on purpose.
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B
Прятал? Зачем режиссёру прятать сюжет от зрителя, который пришёл за сюжетом?
Hid it? Why would a director hide the plot from a viewer who came for the plot?
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A
Затем, чтобы зритель, как и герои, дошёл до своей Комнаты сам. Впрочем, раз ты так горячо споришь, фильм тебя всё-таки зацепил.
So that the viewer, like the characters, reaches his own Room by himself. Then again, if you're arguing this hotly, the film got to you after all.
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B
Ладно, зацепил. Тем не менее пересматривать его я буду не раньше чем через двадцать лет, когда дорасту до вас, Олег.
Fine, it got to me. Even so, I won't watch it again for at least twenty years, when I've grown up to your level, Oleg.
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