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> Burton's extended unexplained car ride What do you mean unexplained? They clearly were showing the future. The multi-level Tokyo highways were percieved as e
by horsh1 4y ago
> Burton's extended unexplained car ride
What do you mean unexplained? They clearly were showing the future. The multi-level Tokyo highways were percieved as extremely futuristic by the soviet audience. There was nothing like that in the Union at the time.
- horsh1 4y ago... Using Tokyo as the vision of the future ten years before Blade Runner and Akira.
- pavlov 4y agoDefinitely. But the length of the first-person driving scene is unexplained in the story universe, and feels somewhat out of place in Tarkovsky’s own body of work. I would agree it conceptually mirrors the “2001” stargate sequence.