film review

Diego 2022-04-21 09:01:45

When I watched this movie, my mood was always skeptical, like the two people who were led to the door that made their wish come true, the stalker kept telling them that it was dangerous here, how many people died here, but they did so After many outrageous behaviors, they still reached the door of the final goal safely, so does the danger that the stalker said really exists? In the scene where the three of them lay down for a short rest, two identical stalkers appeared in the camera, one was lying on his back and the other was lying on his back. When the dog came up to sniff the smell, I thought it was Smell the corpse, the original stalker is dead, and the zone creates a new one. The brief moment when the scientist went back to pick up the bag and separated from the other two and the writer walking alone in the pipe and the other two couldn't see each other for a brief moment terrified me, how could I trust the scientist and writer in the latter shot to be the same as the previous one Is the same person photographed on camera? The characters in the play are also suspicious of each other, so they want to find a certain thing as a foundation for them to stand firm, so the scientist called and took the initiative to confess that he had found a bomb to destroy his future life. I think this movie is about a process from doubting to believing: from doubting whether the wish can really be realized here, to believing that all efforts are meaningless; from doubting whether others believe in themselves, believing in the zone, to completely losing trust in others . At the end of the film, the girl's eyes first fell on the cup, and then the cup began to move, so it was the girl who was pushing the cup, but I didn't quite understand the ending. Maybe it was to show that there are still some beyond reality in this world that cannot be explained by science. matter? After all, the world is not all reality.

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Extended Reading
  • Reed 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    Another stalker, "Wild Boar," hopes to revive his dead brother in the room, but returns home extremely rich, and the exclusion zone fulfills his innermost desire, not the one he suggests to himself. The protagonists don't end up in the room because they haven't been brave enough to peer into their innermost desires. The stalker's wife loves him unrequited, her love is the last miracle against the lack of belief, morality, and spirituality in modern society, and writers and scientists are the victims who symbolize modern society. The film uses long shots, instead of destroying the characters' behavior and time and space due to editing, but instead creates a prose-like poetry.

  • Nakia 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Tarkovsky expressed his firm belief in human nature in [Stalker], calling love a miracle in this world. Such a Christian outlook on life in Eastern Europe is by no means his first creation, and the philosophical passages in the film are often highly lacking in depth, but what makes this film immortal is its operation on the film level. It's rare for a director to make the slightest move in a subtle way that makes the whole scene take your breath away.

Stalker quotes

  • [first lines]

    Stalker's Wife: [sub-titled from Russian] Why did you take my watch?

  • Writer: [subtitled version] While I am digging for the truth, so much happens to it that instead of discovering the truth I dig up a heap of, pardon... I'd better not name it.