So young, so feminine and so helpless..That's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not. Being a woman..And in the last analysis, nothing's any good unless u can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is.Without that, u r not a woman.
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.