贝拉·塔尔并非超验的追随者。所以当塔可夫斯基将物质延伸至精神的崇高时,塔尔在反复试验着物质的有机和分解。不断复现的墙壁、破败的荒原和悲怆的雨水都在积累着一种循环且逐渐崩塌的情绪。András Bálint Kovács讲得好,“Tarr had an eye for the same thing as Fassbinder: to see the spiritual source of the universal drama in the utterly banal figures determined by their environment.”