貝拉·塔爾并非超驗的追隨者所以當塔可夫斯基將物質延伸至精神的崇高時塔爾在反復試驗著物質的有機和分解不斷復現的墻壁、破敗的荒原和悲愴的雨水都在積累著一種循環且逐漸崩塌的情緒András Bálint Kovács講得好“Tarr had an eye for the same thing as Fassbinder: to see the spiritual source of the universal drama in the utterly banal ?gures determined by their environment.”