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it's important to me that everyone thinks I'm intelligent, knowledgeable and sophisticated, so what can I say about this film that will impress people? Well it's directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. He's an auteur, that means he's really good. And this film is a classic. Everyone knows that. It's a complex oblique parable. It's an endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness. It's.....erm....... No, it's no good, I have to be honest. This film is about a man leading two other men to a place where their wishes will come true. They arrive to find nothing there and then they go home. And that's it. But this film lasts two and a half hours, isn't there more to it than that? No there isn't. It's stupefyingly boring. It's a waste of celluloid, or whatever it's made out of. Dammit, now no-one's going to believe I'm an intellectual. But 'stupefyingly' is a big word isn't it? Vollständige Rezension lesen
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The DVD arrived timely, very well wrapped up and of course, the film itself is a classic. So, super thumbs up
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It is Andrei Tarkovsky's cinematic poem pre dating but anticipating Chernobyl. Beautiful long takes. A visual meditation.
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An engaging and gentle yet sinister portrayal of hope in adversity.
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I would categorise this film as drama rather than science fiction because although it has a sci-fi storyline (something falls on Earth – a meteorite, an alien spacecraft – creating a ‘Zone’ where no one lives and where strange things happen), to me it is a rather serious comment on the human condition. So if you are looking for state-of-the-art space hardware, special effects and weird aliens – not to mention Luke Skywalker/Buck Rogers type heroes – you will be somewhat disappointed. The story concerns the ‘Stalker’, a kind of outlaw who guides people safely through the Zone – in this case a professor and a writer (perhaps representing the present day meaningless state of art, literature and technology) to a ‘Room’ where anyone’s deepest desires can be made to come true. Reaching the Room is dangerous, and needs a lot of courage, but is achievable. Actually entering the Room, well, that’s another matter. The film is very allegorical and many levelled, and the brilliant photography is done in such a way that it makes ordinary things – sometimes displaced – appear mysterious and menacing. Every time I watch this film, I get something new from it, for it is a many layered drama encapsulating the human predicament. It could be for instance, taken as a retelling of the story of the Quest for the Holy Grail – without the knights in shining armour, instead a rather seedy looking outlaw, the Zone representing the Fisher King’s/Elliot’s Wasteland. It could also be taken as a journey through the human unconscious to that secret ‘room’ that contains our innermost being/the Self/the Atman etc. There is no doubt also a Marxist interpretation of the story (the film was after all produced in a Marxist country), but not being a Marxist myself (having put such toys aside years ago) I am unable to comment on this. Arcady and Boris Strugatsky were involved in writing the script for the film, which was very loosely based on their novel, Roadside Picnic. But whereas the Stalker in the novel is more like the Harrison Ford/Bruce Willis type of ‘hero’, in the film he's a sort of holy fool – a jaded Perceval perhaps.Vollständige Rezension lesen
Stalker is the high point of Tarkovsky's artistic acheivement. His art, however, is not immediately accessible; and while I would always advocate making the attempt to see the film 'raw' in the first instance, there is with this seminal artist of our time every justification in seeking assistance in interpretation. The interpretation of Slavoj Zizek is for me one of the most insighful. He sees the the 'Zone' - the core concept of the film - as representing ' the material presence, the Real of an absolute Otherness incompatible with the rules and laws of our Universe' This is a film to be experienced as gateway to a new and different level of psychological and sensual experience. A work of art that has the power to change lives.