Russian Ark

I could easily tell that this was a copy off of Tarkovsky. Mirror gave me motion sickness at the end of it. This film gave me motion sickness halfway through it. The filming was similar. It was more like cameraman was dreaming therefore it was thrown around a bit, which caused me to get nauseated.
I did recognize the focus on hands. That theme was also viewed in Mirror. The elements were present; water in the form of snow, the plants. There was also the sense of being lost in time. There seemed to be a time line but it would be tossed back and forth between current times and past times. It also had an eerie feel to it. In Mirror, the eeriness came from the fact that the mother seemed to age but the children stayed young. In Russian Ark, the eeriness came from the fact that we weren't sure what this traveling was suppose to mean. It could have been his mind forming a dream before he died so that the transition was easier for him. The only reason I'm led to believe this is because at the very end he finds that doorway that leads to the water. It's almost as if he had been on a quest the entire time trying to find this passageway into a new realm.