THE ILLUSION OF REALITY OR CONVERSELY
Ivane Begiashvili's student film, "Dialogue by the Lake" (2022), based on the motifs of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "Dialogue in the Dark," makes the process of watching it more interesting. Nonetheless, there is a feeling at the end that the film misses something and that the director deliberately left the viewer in this unusual position. This raises the question - is the story presented real or is it a tightly packed illusion? From the very first shot, a snowy road and a young man walking along it are visible. Within a few seconds, a car stops on the road, from which a man and a child get out and the impression ...
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