Offret

If you water a dead tree every day, one day it will live. It is a very beautiful story, but it is suddenly interrupted. And Alexander decides to make a sacrifice. A sacrifice so that everything remains as it was. When we read Heraclitus, we know that things will never be the way they were. But it’s not so much about Heraclitus as it is about how unexpected events change people’s lives. Sounds banal. And it’s about war. Because war brutally changes people’s behaviour. Also banal. And some (quite a few, if you look around Europe) would be prepared to make a sacrifice. So that everything stays as it was. They just don’t realize that sacrifice brings nothing. And that the river of Heraclitus is still flowing. 

Offret. By Andrei Tarkovsky. Not in the cinema. But maybe you can stream it.