Loss and Defection: the Incommunicability in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films

This paper mainly focuses on Andrei Tarkovsky’s drama films and science fictions to illustrate the way through which his loss and defection are reflected by applying psychoanalysis approach. This paper firstly introduces Andrei Tarkovsky and accented cinema as background information and then conducts discussion concerning different genres of his films respectively. In the discussion of drama films, time and personal memories are strengthened from the perspective of individuals, while in terms of science fictions, this paper puts more emphasis on the ideological issue and political unconscious. Freudian notions of uncanny and doppelgänger are the key tools to do textual analysis, and to understand the obscure implications and metaphors that hinder the viewers from grasping his words between the lines. The theme about homeland and women, usually mother and wife, are distinguishable in Andrei Tarkovsky’s works and conveys his inner appeals. This paper also tries to interpret Andrei Tarkovsky’s film language through aspects such as composition and sound, aiming to provide a deeper and overall discussion of Andrei Tarkovsky and his loss and rebellious spirit in storytelling, which not only offers a glimpse towards that specific historical period but also has a significant and lasting influence on filmmakers around the whole world until nowadays.