Oh yes, it's all there: dog, horse, boy child (the son), the zone (the cell), all that water, weathered wall, battered machinery, miniature house (home), weightlessness/elevation, the tree (of life/hope, blossoming even if it was dead to begin with) and religious imagery galore.
After seeing Tarsem Singh's dreadful misunderstanding of Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Offret' in the musicvideo for REM's 'Losing my Religion' years ago, i just knew a full feature film would contain so much more utter nonsense. I was not mistaken ;-)
A lot of the imagery stems from Tarkovsky films directly; especially from 'Stalker', 'Nostalghia', 'The Mirror' and last but not least: 'The Sacrifice'('Offret')
So it's Tarkovsky badly misinterpreted with Singh delivering us such fine bonus, totally misplaced, christian moralities as 'salvation through cleansing of the soul' bla bla 'baptism', 'god-me-son triangularity', purgatory scenes, heaven and hell as ying and yang, 'Saint Catherine The Pure', bla bla, o lord.....
The Cell attempts to run deep, but it's just very very shallow.
Vision, dear Mr. Sing, not just images !
After seeing Tarsem Singh's dreadful misunderstanding of Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Offret' in the musicvideo for REM's 'Losing my Religion' years ago, i just knew a full feature film would contain so much more utter nonsense. I was not mistaken ;-)
A lot of the imagery stems from Tarkovsky films directly; especially from 'Stalker', 'Nostalghia', 'The Mirror' and last but not least: 'The Sacrifice'('Offret')
So it's Tarkovsky badly misinterpreted with Singh delivering us such fine bonus, totally misplaced, christian moralities as 'salvation through cleansing of the soul' bla bla 'baptism', 'god-me-son triangularity', purgatory scenes, heaven and hell as ying and yang, 'Saint Catherine The Pure', bla bla, o lord.....
The Cell attempts to run deep, but it's just very very shallow.
Vision, dear Mr. Sing, not just images !