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Stalker | Year: 1979 Classification: Foreign Film - Russian Directed: - Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrej Tarkowski Actors/Actresses: - Alexander Kaidanowski - Alissa Freindlich It's not just a movie but an emotional adventure. There is a lot of different review here but everything is true because there is one more character of "Stalker" movie. It's You. The word "Stalker" is English but it's not just Tarkovsky's innovation. He used a Character from beautiful story of brothers Strugatsky. This masterpiece is done as a short excerpt from novel "Picnic at the roadside" (it's hoax!). Idea is that Stalker is professional illegal visitor to Zone for collecting and sale strange things. It's dangerous job because Zone is not predictable and Stalker must to STALK through area of unknown dangers. Strugatsky's Zone is a place of temporary stop of some aliens and it's result of littering. Zone by Tarkovsky is different one but he used the image of Stalker for few reasons: 1) story by Strugatsky is an action so it added ground and feeling of reality to movie; 2) it gives rise to feeling of possible mystification by Stalker so you can believe or not to reality of Zone; 3) it adds a feeling of reality to this psychological movie. Actually this movie is poetry of reality and reality of poetry at same time. You can love it or not but it's must see. Be ready to hard work. My god this guy is amazing When I slipped Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" into my VCR I just layed back, openned up a bag of chips, and began contemplating the useless, insignificant quote left by some small time critic on the box: 'this film is the Slavic equvilant to David Lynch's "Eraserhead" (Who like that's a good comparison).' But then, instead of turning out like some third-rate American make-no-sense paranoia noir, Tarkovsky's achievment is so ingenious, so visual, so relative, and so downright different that I was just blown away. The film begins in stark black, white and brown colors. The look is so bleak that it looks faded and unfocused. Tarkovsky introduces us to a man desperate for color and beauty in a society that depraves him of such things. The smoke, rain and mud seem to forbid him to leave his home just as much as his own wife does. With this scene alone Tarkovsky has painted a finer picture of communist Russia than every film combined that has ever tried to capture the country's atmosphere and spirit (I'm largely speaking of American movies). I could go on and on about this film, but I can't. I can't describe what you see, feel, and how it purminates in the mind. It goes so beyond anything that English or American 'Ambitious' epic films present. Films like "Apocalyse Now" and "Lawrence of Arabia" have a surface, but rarely a living indivualized heart underneath. This is my first Tarkovsky film, and after watching just one, I have contemplated he is just as brilliant and highly cinema-vocabularic as Bergman, Godard, Ozu and Herzog (at his prime). After witnessing Tarkovsky's work, I have a newfound interest in Russian Cinema, and a newfound interest in Russia in general.<BR>Watch this film, or any other Tarkovsky masterpieces, and I garuantee that the bag of chips will be just as untouched come the end as it was at the beginning. Faithless world First of all, do not watch this film if you have ADD. There are long, drawn out shots of fields, three men walking, and quirky discussions which many will find boring. I didn't. While this film is about many things at once, I found on reflection that (at least to me) "Stalker" is essentially about the ethical/non-ethical nature of notions like hope, redemption. The 'Zone' as it is termed is really a metaphor for what a human has to reach in his/her life to find metaphysical hope. In the end, that hope is judged (by the most likeable character out of the three) to be invalid, even morally wrong. The meditative shots of fields alternate with shots of decay, destruction, and a "1984ish" state. These men remind one of some of Beckett's characters, behaving in absurd ways. But, perhaps the point is, this is an absurd world. A masterpiece that demands full attentiveness. Buy Stalker at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Stalker Search with the Priority Search Engine on Stalker This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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