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"This film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the film maker has tried to recreate the poet's inner world through the trepidations of his soul, his passions and torments, widely utilizing the symbolism and allegories specific to the tradition of Medieval Armenian poet-troubadours (Ashough)."

"I am the man whose life and soul are torture."

"Books must be well kept and read,, for books are Soul and Life. Without books, the world would have witnessed nothing but ignorance."
 

As a young boy Aruthin helps lay out books on the roof in order that they may dry out from some kind of inundation.

"From the colors and aromas of this world, my childhood made a poet's lyre and offered it to me."

Women clean their fancy rugs. Other women make the fancy rugs. Men dye the thread that goes into the making of the rugs.

A man removes the cut-off head from a chicken.

"Saint George, we implore you, let your good fortune, your kind thoughts spread over our family, on our people, along with your white horse be a stronghold for our people, give prosperity to this family, give them good thoughts and prosperity".

Aruthin looks into rooms where men get massages from servants. Black mud is put all over the men and then a servant helps wash the mud off the men.

Aruthin looks into a room where a nude woman is laying. (Brief nudity.) (And another shot of brief nudity.)

Men play music for the men going through the treatment.

"We were searching for ourselves in each other."

And then there is the art of lace making.

Next comes some dancing.

"In this healthy and beautiful life my share has been nothing but suffering. Why has it been given to me?"

Now there are scenes shot in the outdoors, including those involving horses.

"We were searching for a place of refuge for our love, but instead, the road led us to the land of the dead."

Horsemen ride from right to left paralleling a fortress wall.

There's a death scene with a cloth dummy representing the dead.

"You abandoned us and went away, but we the living wrapped you in a cocoon so in your new world you would burst out like a butterfly."

"How am I to protect my wax-built castles of love from the devouring heat of your fires?"

"You are fire. Your dress if fire. You are fire. Your dress is black. Which of these two fires can I endure?"

There is dancing around a number of hanging rugs.

"Go then, selfless heart and find your place of refuge. I will go and search the monasteries one by one."

Thirteen religious men are busy eating pomegranates. Other men are stomping grapes.

"Beautiful one, come quickly, quickly come, o beautiful one . . ."

Man and woman getting married.

Christening of a child.

"Brothers of mine in soul and blood, heaven has sent upon us to this world, grief -- grief -- grief. Brothers of mine in soul and blood, grief, inconsolable grief has been sent to us from heaven today. On this night of revelations at Etchmiadzin, died our Saint Father Lazarus, Catholics of all Armenians. Brothers of mine in soul and blood, heaven has sent upon us to this world, grief -- grief -- grief."

A man digs a hole within the church. Sheep come into the church where the man digs a hole.

"Brothers of mine in soul and blood, grief has sent to us to this world from heaven, grief -- grief -- grief. Brothers of mine in soul and blood, grief -- grief -- grief. Grief is sent to us from heaven today at Eatchmiadzin. During this night of the revelation of Saint Sarkis, our Holy Father Lazarus, Catholics of all Armenians, has died."

"I asked for a shroud to wrap the dead body, instead, I was given frenzied convulsions of their living bodies."

"Where can I find selfless love?"

More prayers to God. Women bring into the church their detailed rugs they made.

"In the Sun Valley of the distant years, live my longings, my loves and my childhood."

"You are fire, you're dressed in black. You are fire, you're dressed in black. You are fire, you're dressed in black."

A camel is in the next scene of people making raucous music.

A family has a huge piece of flat bread. The boy tears off a piece and eats it. Now they have a bakery full of bread.

The top piece of a building is being put in place but is dropped and breaks.

Three dogs are used in a scene.

"I saw everything clear and strangely blunt, and I understood that life had abandoned me."

A bloody scene comes when men kill and butcher three sheep. Blood runs over the steps.

"We have slain the sacrificial lamb, boiled the meat and distributed it at seven places. Come hither, come. " The bloody heads of three sheep are displayed.

Wife: "When my husband and I went to Tiflis, we went to the Turkish square, where there was a public bathhouse. We had a good bath."

Husband: "What are you saying woman? You're letting everyone know that we've been to the bathhouse. Take these roosters and give them to the maidens."

Wife: "As we came out to eat some barbecue, we heard that a troubadour had come to town. We went to see him, but he was no troubadour, but a cobbler."

People sing: "As long as I live, my life is all yours, my love. My life is all yours, how can I help it, my love?"

A white-haired man says to another man: "Go amongst the people and may we always hear of your triumphs, your kind deeds and your well-being. You are the salt of the earth. And may God of speech be always with you. Go amongst the people."

A horse is used in the next scene. He is pulled along by the man sent out to go amongst the people.

A soldier sits on a different horse and prepares to fire an arrow from his bow. The face of a stained-glass picture falls from the window.

"I hear calls of homecoming and hope, but I am weary. Who has spread all this sorrow upon this old and weary earth?"

"The world is like an open window. And I'm weary of passing through it. You wound the one that looks through it. I'm weary of the tomorrows and even its gardens are full of sorrows. "

A female human body is buried.

"The bread you gave us was beautiful, but the soil is even more beautiful. I'll go and soon turn to dust. I am weary, I am weary."

A woman with a knife later pours blood over a man who might have looked like Christ.







旁白摘记转载于 Sayat Nova (Color of Pomegranates) (1991) - Vernon Johns Society
                              http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/color%20of%20pomegranates.html


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从来没有这样一部电影，像诗一样美。
《石榴的颜色》，我会永远记住那鲜血一样的红色。

还有，那女人，薄纱后面，深似谷底的一双眼睛……

对，没有办法用文字来形容它。
看到这部电影，我感到自己彷佛在和自己的梦对话。
是的，就是这种强烈的感觉。

我试图举起画笔，捕捉那一副副刻在脑海里的图像，
但我失败了……

这是前苏联亚美里亚地区导演瑟吉·帕拉让诺夫执导的一部个人代表作。被誉为“前苏联冷战时期最出色的一部电影”，整部影片充满了超现实主义色彩，影片叙事类似于《追忆逝水年华》支离破碎、缺乏前后连贯。整部电影非常抽象，充满了象征意味，让人非常难以理解。在IMDB的网友评论中，将本片列为最难看的一部电影。网上有人翻译了亚马逊网站上一位网友的评论，相信对大家理解本片有所裨益：

影片影象风格深受亚美尼亚中世纪绘画和十九世纪塔部利什民间画家普罗斯马尼以及哈可伯·哈瓦纳坦尼（与导演及本片主角诗人一样，生活在塔部利什的亚美尼亚人）影响，本片的影象风格完全不同于导演以往的作品。在本片中，镜头甚少移动，帕拉让诺夫创造了大量以前的舞台造型，影片里，他的演员多半时间是面无表情站立不动，或进行仪式般的哑剧表演。帕诺让诺夫自己是个天才般的艺术家，他创造了数以百计的抽象派拼贴画和素描，大多数可在帕拉让诺夫博物馆里看到。

就象费里尼一样，帕拉让诺夫也在自己电影里放置一位令人过目不忘的面容。本片里的女主角格鲁吉亚人苏菲柯·切沃尼扮演了几个精彩片段：年轻诗人和他的爱人安娜，白色饰带的修女、诗人的沉思，无论是扮演男性还是女性，她都显得异常美丽。

尽管本片出名在于片中独一无二的想象力，但它的配乐也非常出色。由萨雅创作几首诗歌及民谣与亚美尼亚、格鲁及亚传统音乐完美结合创作出非凡声音蒙太奇效果。值得一提，导演帕拉让诺夫在进入电影学校之前学习音乐。影片里展现了大量该地域特有的悠久历史的手工品、古代遗迹：地毯、亚麻织品、金属制品、历史遗迹。

关于萨雅·诺瓦

《石榴的颜色》（1969，COLOR OF POMEGRANATES）原名《萨雅·诺瓦》（SAYAT NOVA），诺瓦是18世纪亚美尼亚著名的吟游诗人，年轻时曾受到格鲁吉亚的国王赏识，被召入宫，成为宫廷诗人，晚年则笃信宗教，成为僧侣，避世于修道院。帕拉让诺夫在片头就告诉观众：“不要在影片中寻找诺瓦的一生。”他籍电影方法将诗影象化，只是打算呈现抒情诗人VALEIR BRIOUSSOV所说：“中世纪亚美尼亚的诗是雕刻在宇宙历史中人类精神最辉煌的胜利。”

僧侣诗人萨雅·诺瓦（1712-1795）出生于格鲁吉亚首都塔部利什附近一个村庄Sanahin，其父母为亚美尼亚人，在塔部利什做地毯。（与帕拉让诺夫同为在塔部利什出生的亚美尼亚人），他原名为Haroutiun Sayakian，年青时，他成了一名吟游诗人。活动于格鲁吉亚、亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆。而后被亚美尼亚人称之为“SAYAT NOVA（歌王）”，比较有传奇色彩的是，他与格鲁吉亚王国安娜公主相爱了，因而被国王下令放逐。在亚美尼亚北部的一个修道院里度过残生。或许与本片有着一定联系就是：萨雅是由入侵格鲁吉亚的波斯王国士兵所杀害。

强烈建议所有对艺术感兴趣的朋友观看本片。

石榴的颜色是本届电影节到现在为止最让我动容的一部片子
这部片子本身，鄙人拙见（没看简介和影评）就是一部对于中世纪宗教的反思和呈现。

那些繁复的服装上的装饰，群羊，三位一体，那些尖头的鞋子，活生生得像是从中世纪manuscript里走出来的一样。甚至把二维的绘画，不符合透视，脸谱化的人体全部带到了三维的空间，让扁平化的人物有了自己的深度。影响最深刻的就是男主上马，将身体转向摄影机，这是完全模仿当时脸对着画面，然而双脚对着侧面的画法。这种让图画上的人物与现实生活中完全不同，但却又相仿的人类形象，让信徒可以将自己和圣灵有所联系，但又不至于怀疑他的神圣性。

然而这就联系起了本片的故事线。男主无非就是在寻找圣灵，自我中无法自拔，直到生命的最后一刻也不知道何处去寻找所谓“selfless love”（无私的爱）。然而全片讲述了他与自我欲望（包括那些吃饼的桥段，拒绝修女的主动现身（但却得到了圣母mary，又牵涉到mary即是基督的丈夫，也是他的母亲一说），和对divinity的追求。让我不得不相信男主即使诗人，也是personification of Jesus Christ。然而这样说来，那我觉得本片让我觉得Christ 更像一个真人。他不再是manuscript里other worldly的divine spirit，他只是一个不断在找寻自我中迷茫并痛苦的灵魂。所以贯穿全片的十字架，无时无刻的在折磨着他，直到影片的最后。他说“I am weary. I am weary". 是啊，他一生的折磨并非是把他钉在十字架上的那些给他的，而是他自己，然而也正式因为他的痛苦和折磨，才让他有了解救众生的能力

但是你却又不得不承认，本片对于基督教的态度是嘲讽的。至少他对于大众的这种朝拜心理并不完全认同。三位一体却被用来宰割代表基督的羊，圣洗约翰的脚却是为了酿葡萄酒（也是eucharist的重要组成部分），面包（囊）被孩子玩耍和食用。

还有很多细节让画面不但美丽也充满深度。比如不断在画面中出现表示时间流逝的钟摆或者摇摆的人，落在金属盘子上的染料奏出充满节奏的音乐声，两个天使带来的天堂之门，和刺绣精美的花布。。。。

可无限刷。求清晰源

写完可以开始研究影评和相关的历史背景！好片才会让人有琢磨的意味。