Sculpting Time

Taking on a full time and having a serious relationship certainly leaves a very small amout of time for personal interests. It seems like I spend more time rushing through everything I'd like to get done than enjoying my interests while I'm engrossed in them. Unfortunately there's no real way of slowing down time, but the closest attempt I've witnessed is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's films. His award winning films , most of which were directed in the last fifty years, seem miles apart from the fast paced cinematic style of today's hollywood director's. My first Tarkovsky movie was Solaris, that I got on accident hoping to receive the George Clooney version via Netflix. After only 15 minutes into Solaris I was almost ready to turn it off, and then it started to click....As I was staring at a half minute camera pan of a wooded landscape I realized how much I've personally been so caught up in getting from A to B everyday that I was seldom living in the moment. So much time I was spending thinking about what I'd do next or what I had done before. Tarksovsky fixated on the moment. I ended making it through Solaris and just recently tried another Tarkovsky film Sacrifice. It is remarkable the amout of ground that the movie covered after setting such a slow pace. Usually Hollywood action sequences barely move me, as they are all so often strung together in a long chain with out any room for character development or plot, but with Tarkovksy's slow build up even a