Images, shots and spiritual souls of the old tower

Palma 2022-04-23 07:01:42

About Tarkovsky's films, people have mixed opinions, some people worship it, some people think it is long and boring, I am of course the former.

Every shot in Stalker is so picturesque, and every picture is so poetic, and the information conveyed is ubiquitous. In the stalker's dream, returning from the looping scene to the stalker, bringing the audience from the dream into the reality, plus the gentle poetic music, how can the old tower be so poetic! This is a director who expresses his personal spirit but is very charismatic and talented! Stalker is an excellent work of art, everyone has a different interpretation of the spiritual meaning inside, who is a wise man, how to enter the "area", a girl who is psychic but can't walk... It will be different once you watch it. experience.

Modern people have seen a lot of fast-paced and fast-edited split works, watching stories and watching actions. But when you want to pursue the essence of art, when you want to look at the composition, the picture and the camera, when you want to experience the pure poetic film and personal spirit, Tarkovsky is the only choice.

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Extended Reading
  • Moriah 2021-11-13 08:01:25

    I wonder if it’s Tarkovsky’s most obscure, mysterious and metaphysical movie? There is no sense of suffocation and wonderful reversal of [flying into space], as if nothing is said, and everything is clicked. The presentation of the subconscious and desires, and the trivial debates about life and beliefs are very tormenting. Slowly moving the long lens can make the stinky water ditch poetic. You can also see the rain in the mysterious house, the black and white reality and the colorful "area" picture, and the power of thinking is shifting. (8.3/10)

  • Watson 2021-11-13 08:01:25

    I think this is a religious movie. Only desperate people will turn to it for help, and it also opens its doors to desperate people. You can’t walk the broad road, because it leads to destruction; if you walk the narrow road, it leads to eternal life (walking through the narrow road, the stalker tells the writer that you will live a long life). Although no one wanted to enter that door in the end, and the stalker said that he would no longer lead people, Tarkovsky showed a child in the end.

Stalker quotes

  • 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.

  • Stalker: Are you awake? You were talking recently about the meaning... of our... life... unselfishness of art... Let's take music... It's really least of all connected; to say the truth, if it is connected at all, then in an idealess way, mechanically, with an empty sound... Without... without associations... Nonetheless the music miraculously penetrates into the very soul! What is resonating in us in answer to the harmonized noise? And turns it for us into the source of great delight... And unites us, and shakes us? What is its purpose? And, above all, for whom? You will say: for nothing, and... and for nobody, just so. Unselfish. Though it's not so... perhaps... For everything, in the end, has its own meaning... Both the meaning and the cause...