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I humbly give to you, three Hozier inspired posters.

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2023

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I present to you, the trauma dump trio.

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Just a collection of studies for class, based on D.C.R. Pollock’s “Room at the inn”.

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I humbly give to you, three Hozier inspired posters.

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Deleted all other social media, I live here now.

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I love all this new appreciation for Goncharov 1973, this was my father's favorite film for a long time and I remember fondly watching it as a child, but with all the talk, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone talk about one of the things I personally love the most about the movie, how it’s theme of time applies so well to the three main characters, in three diferente ways.

We see it constantly, represented in the abundance of clocks that plague us throughout this film, and also in many lines of dialogue, but clocks don't mean the same thing to all the characters. 

For Goncharov the clocks symbolize the future, what he believes to be fame and fortune and we know is his inevitable end. We can see this clearly when we are told by Andrei that Goncharov is not bothered by the sound the clocks make, that he finds it relaxing, to know that time is passing and he is moving closer to what he believes is his destiny, Goncharov feels that his time is running out, his time to be somebody, to be a man his father would have been proud of, but it will be this ambition that will kill him, because he does not actually care about his life, death would mean he does not have to worry about his legacy anymore, he would be free. (That’s why he tells Katya: “If we were in love, you wouldn’t have missed.”)

But what makes this film so special is how the theme also applies to the other two protagonists in a different way. While Goncharov represents a future that will never be, Katya represents being stuck in the present and Andrei represents longing for a lost past.

Katya is an intelligent and capable woman, but she is trapped in a loop that she is convinced she cannot get out of, so she feels she is not moving forward, she is trapped in the present. We see this in several moments, such as the scene of the broken clock in the living room, where she is the only one who has realized that the clock has stopped ticking, or in her conversation with Sofia just after the boat scene, where she confesses that sometimes she feels that time has stopped running for her, this is the reason why she is unable to shoot Goncharov and or leave with him. She is unable to imagine a different life, because she does not see herself as capable of changing, and overcoming her demons.

Finally Andrei, he feels overwhelmed by the passing of time. He himself tells us that unlike Goncharov, the sound of the clocks causes him anxiety, every time the clock ticks it’s a second his further away from a past in which everything was easier, everything has become complicated between him and Goncharov since they arrived in Naples, and for this reason, in their last conversation on that bridge where they’ve met so many nights before, just before shooting him, he asks “If you could run back time, would you do anything differently?” Hoping that the answer will change something, the he will maybe have some regrets, but Goncharov’s ambition does not let him see this, he’s not repentant, not about Ice pick Joe’s death, not about how his treated Katya, not even about everything he has made Andrei go through, and so he dies, by the hand of the man he would of never expected.