During the entire film, which feels like a requiem, there isn’t a single shot in which we can even recognize our planet. The film comes on as a kind of science fiction apocalypse. Hence the Pascal before the opening scenes—I wanted to raise the viewer to a high level and keep him there until the end. But the quote isn’t from Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher who left us wonderful aphorisms about the universe; it’s by me. I think Pascal couldn’t have put it any better. And another thing: in such instances, I always pointed out that I made something up.
