About 20 years ago, they say a meteorite fell here. It razed the settlement. They searched for it, but they found nothing, of course.
Why “of course”?
Then people began to vanish. Finally, it was decided —
- Well?
Finally, it was decided that this meteorite was not quite a meteorite. So, for a start they put up barbed wire to stop the inquisitive taking risks. Then rumors began that somewhere in the Zone there’s a place where desires come true. Well, naturally, they started to guard the Zone like a treasure. For who knows what desires a person might have?
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
enrique262
deathmental
barcarole
moviehub
criterioncollection
ozu-teapot
freshmoviequotes