I particularly enjoyed the opening, it conveys a very positive mood. I wish to convey positive feelings in my own work. I felt the music played a big part, it also used visually stunning shots.
In the article (link posted below), the writer talks about the rejection of montage in the work of Tarkovsky.
I intend to use montage but I still found Tarkovsky to be quite an interesting film maker.
Reading the article I have established that Tarkovsky tends to use long sequences, repeating shots to show the character trying to achieve his goals but without using a 3minute montage to glue together the 'struggle' of the character and how he/she eventually solves his/ her problems.
Instead Tarkovsky chooses to show the clip over and over again until the character solved the problem, even if this means playing the same clip over a 15 minute duration.
Unfortunately because of my time restrictions I will have to make use of montage but I agree in a sense that montage isn't truthful because it covers a vast array of information in a short time scale, wheras a struggle could take a long period of time.
An interesting quote on Tarkovskys distaste for montage from the man himself.
"The idea of "montage cinema"—that editing brings together two concepts and thus engenders a new, third one—again seems to me to be incompatible with the nature of cinema. Art can never have the interplay of concepts as its ultimate goal. The image is tied to the concrete and the material, yet reaches out along mysterious paths to regions beyond the spirit..."
http://www.ce-review.org/00/39/kinoeye39_halligan.html
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