stalker

Effie 2022-04-23 07:01:42

When one already knows something about the void, staring intently can cause a further plunge into the void. The world is bare ground with scattered words.

Poetry is the way to enter.

From start to finish.

Can't stay.

Everything is changing every second.

Can't go back.

No one can go back the way they came.

Detours.

Catkins and erratic desires.

roads with opposite names

lay down your weapon

Don't make wrong choices

The end is nothing

Coherent images in running water

huddled wreckage

Whats the sense of coming here

Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

I am the image seen by myself.

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Extended Reading
  • Alvah 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    The first Tarkovsky. The images of water, empty mirrors of ruins, philosophical speculations and belief propositions are all reminiscent of Apocalypse Now, less flying, but more convincing. Poetic and slow, long mirrors are thought provoking. The light shines in the world, but the light still loses.

  • Natalia 2021-11-13 08:01:25

    Classic restoration, a masterpiece of nihilism full of metaphors. The content can be said to be nothing, or it can be said to be all-encompassing. From Eisenstein to Tarkovsky to Sarkinsev, Russia/Former Soviet Union has produced a lot of masters of lens scheduling. The iconic transition lens of the "Stalker" can be crowned in history...

Stalker quotes

  • Stalker's Wife: You know, Mama was very opposed to it. You've probably already guessed, that he's one of God's fools. Everyone around here used to laugh at him. He was such a wretched muddler. Mama used to say: "he's a stalker, a marked man, an eternal jailbird. Remember the kind of children stalkers have." I didn't even argue. I knew all about it, that he was a marked man, a jailbird. I knew about the kids. Only what could I do? I was sure I'd be happy with him. I knew there'd be a lot of sorrow, but I'd rather know bitter-sweet happiness, than a grey, uneventful life. Perhaps I invented all this later. But when he come up to me and said: "Come with me", I went. And I've never regretted it. Never. There was a lot of grief, and fear, and pain, but I've never regretted it, nor envied anyone. It's just fate. It's life, it's us. And if there were no sorrow in our lives, it wouldn't be better, it would be worse. Because then there'd be no happiness, either. And there'd be no hope.

  • Stalker: In the Zone, the longer way, the less risk.