소꾸로프의 '어머니와 아들'

“The story is about an ideal human relationship about love and deep affection between a mother and her son. Neither she nor he loves anybody in this world as much as they love each other. Their love is almost physically palpable, it is the edge, the limit of love, but only beyond it something true lies. It seems that those two are the only people on the entire Earth no routine, no bustle, no unnecessary things, just a wooden house in the country where the seriously ill mother and her loving son lead a quiet life… To a certain extent the mother and the son are one single creature plunged into the strange and beautiful world of eternal Nature, the world which either has never been visited by Man (and thus nothing has been spoilt) or was forever abandoned by Man long-long ago…”

- Alexander Sokurov (from the author's annotation) -

이 영화는 어머니와 아들 사이에 존재하는 깊은 애정을 그린 사랑의 이야기다.

이 영화 어머니와 아들(Mother and Son)에는 병들어 죽어 가는 노모와 그 어머니를 극진히 간호하는 아들 두 사람만 나온다. 장면 장면 고요하고 아름다운 러시아 시골 풍경을 한 폭의 그림처럼 보여 주며, 대사도 거의 없다. 소쿠로프 감독은 가슴을 메이게 하는 이 긴 - 긴 - 침묵 속에서… 결국 남는 것은 모든 것을 견디어 내는, 삶과 죽음까지도 견디어 내는 끝없는 사랑뿐이라고 전해 준다.

"나에게 이 관계에서 중요한 것은 그 사랑이다. 즉, 잔잔하고 고요한 사랑, 다른 데를 두리번거릴 필요가 없는 사랑, 두 사람이 서로를 어떻게 대해줘야 할지를 매우 조심스럽게 마음 쓰는 사랑, 바로 그런 종류의 사랑이다." ― 알렉산드르 소꾸로프ㅡ

In the film Mother and Son the director presents the theme of meeting and parting of the two dearest to each other people as initially tragic. Death the moment when a man breaks off his relations with Mother-Nature  is interpreted not as a natural stage of life cycle but as a hand of Fate that eventually gets hold of a man. The stage where the tragedy takes place is the Earth, the characters  the mother and the son, always and everywhere lonely and bound to each other by the fear of losing each other. Their faces are marked by different genetic codes. The son is Alexei Ananishnov, the principle character of Days of Eclipse, his mother  Gudrun Geyer, an emancipated European woman. But they both belong to the same Home.
Sokurov who is inclined to shoot set models of a reduced size and thus to create a whimsical 'play on scales', in this film shoots a model of Home, a real size building in Russian fields. At the same time a huge open pit through which the hero's way to the depths of the Earth lied was shot in Germany. The road from Home is also the road to Home where Mother and Son lie in the same deathbed-cradle.

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알렉산드르 소쿠로프 - 어머니와 아들