She begs him to stay, but he's got to do what a holy fool's got to do. Tarkovsky's films have always invited allegorical interpretation, and certain viewers might be tempted to view the Stalker's impending trip in the light of recent history. Is the Zone an idealised image of the UK with its generous welfare system, a land of milk and honey with many opportunities for those willing to pick fruit for six quid an hour? Or, more radically, is the Stalker an asylum-seeker?
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It turns out, yes, that's exactly what he is! But he's seeking asylum from the world. Ridiculous, of course, to see a work through the prism of events that occur after it was completed, but the idea that Stalker imaginatively anticipated the Zone of Exclusion around Chernobyl has become a critical commonplace. She says he'll end up in prison. He replies that "everywhere's a prison". One assumes this is intended metaphorically, but the film is constantly making us wonder about its connection to the state that funded it.
Worth pausing here to consider if Tarkovsky could ever have raised the dough to make this film in the unrepressive west. Now, this was the s, not the s or the s, when the Soviet Union was a vast prison camp. By the time of Stalker, communism had become, in historian Tony Judt's words, "a way of life to be endured". Still, while the film may not be about the gulag, it is haunted by memories of the camps, from the overlap of vocabulary "Zona", "the meat grinder" to the Stalker's Zek-style shaved head. The turnaround, as the film-maker Chris Marker has pointed out, is that here freedom is found within the wire.
After the Stalker leaves, his wife has one of those sexualised fits of which Tarkovsky seems to have been fond, writhing away in a climax of abandonment. He, on the other hand, like many men before and since, has gone to the pub. He's not there to meet his mates - this is not Distant Voices, Still Lives - but the people he's taking into the Zone. From the bar they can hear a train, can hear that lonesome whistle blow.
So there are hints, here, of a heist movie - the Stalker being lured back into the Zone for one last job - and of a sci-fi western ie "eastern". They leave the bar, begin their journey into the cinematic unknown. In a way that might prove significant, the Stalker tramps through a puddle like a man with more important things on his mind than worrying about wet feet.
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Since there are people out there who have not yet had Stalker burned into their retinas, and given the film's zero-gravity suspense - is anything going to happen? His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers. At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return. A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
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After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents.
Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally In a small, unnamed country there is an area called the Zone. It is apparently inhabited by aliens and contains the Room, where in it is believed wishes are granted. The government has declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed off the area with barbed wire and border guards.
However, this has not stopped people from attempting to enter the Zone. We follow one such party, made up of a writer, who wants to use the experience as inspiration for his writing, and a professor, who wants to research the Zone for scientific purposes. Their guide is a man to whom the Zone is everything, the Stalker. Andrei Tarkovsky is a rarity among filmmakers in that he creates films that resemble elaborate and always smartly written, beautifully shot and superbly acted puzzles. The pieces are always scattered, and Tarkovsky relies on his viewer to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him.
A teacher and a scientist wish to go to a restricted patch of nature - the mythical conscious "Zone" - to make their wishes come true.
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To enter the area and survive its numerous danger, they hire a man sensible to the Zone's thoughts and actions, a Stalker. What they find there turns out to be very different from what they expected, as they come to discover who they truly are. Stalker is a great movie that seems a bit bleak, but is very captivating, as it is shot beautiful black and white, which adds a melancholic surrealistic atmosphere to the tone of movie.
Clearly, Tarkovsky tried to capture a certain vibe, and you feel it here. If you love foreign cinema that are breathtaking in scope, films that make you think, and has a simple, yet very good premise, this is a film not to miss.
After Solaris, is Tarkovsky's second greatest work, and it's a film that resonates with the human consciousness. This is a superb movie, a flawless piece of cinema, and one of the finest movies that I had the pleasure to watch. Watching more and more of Andrei Tarkovsky's body of work, you begin to realize how great he was at telling superb stories with brilliant performances and incredible direction. His films are works of art, and with Stalker, this is a journey that is worth taking as we travel with the two characters as they travel in search of what they're looking for. This is simply put, filmmaking at its very best, and if you love exceptionally well crafted cinema, then you ought to watch this phenomenal film.
The film is long, but it never feels boring because there is just so much in the film that you never realize how long it is. The film is a journey, one that makes you think, and it's a masterwork from a director who has constantly crafted truly superb pictures. Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the rare filmmakers whose filmography is flawless because he hasn't made one bad movie.
Dazed, shaken and poignantly moved. Mesmerizing, not by the magnetic scenery itself, but by own thought. My least favorite Tarkovsky thus far.
Danger! High-radiation arthouse!
So talky, so ambivalent, so I really should afford this a second and third chance as I was stuck reading the subtitles most of the first viewing. I do not relish the thought. More Top Movies Trailers Forums. Season 7 Black Lightning: Season 2 DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 4 Doctor Who: Season 11 The Flash: Season 5 This Is Us: Season 3 Saturday Night Live: Season 4 The Walking Dead: Weekend Box Office Results: View All Photos 1.
Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier Solaris, was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky.
The film follows three men -- the Scientist Nikolai Grinko , the Writer Anatoliy Solonitsyn , and the Stalker Alexander Kaidanovsky -- as they travel through a mysterious and forbidden territory in the Russian wilderness called the "Zone. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearranges itself. It seems as if an unknown intelligence is actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders. In the Zone, there is said to be a bunker, and in the bunker:
