As I was going up the stairs 当我上楼时 I met a man who wasn't there 碰见一个原本不在那里的人 He wasn't there again today 今天他又不在那里了 I wish I wish he'd go away 我希望...我希望他已经离开了
Through interweaving and juxtaposing the two opposing worlds of dreams and of reality, Tarkovsky orchestrates a disjointed yet poetic narrative, by which he successfully externalised the complicated and contradictory inner world of Ivan, a typical child character who is made for war in reality, but retains his purest naivete of a child’s nature in dreams.