Recently, I have come to a conclusion, which has been fulfilled many times. It is better to honestly make up for the masterpieces in the history of movies, rather than to watch the new films of the same era.
"Stalker" is an accidental bead. Before it, I just watched "Still in the Mirror", one is Tarkovsky from the Soviet Union, and the other is Bergman from Sweden. The two masters seem to have negotiated Yes, the two films on the same day happened to be discussing the motif of "creation", which is especially instructive to the individual who has been facing "difficult childbirth".
Back to business.
Stalker, the plot is probably a poor man as a tour guide, with a writer and a professor, into a "area" that seems to be highly civilized but is under military martial law, looking for a mysterious "room", but must pass the nickname of the meat grinder. The "pipe" can enter the "room". In the room, one can obtain huge wealth and satisfaction, but also inexplicably embark on the road of suicide...
While watching, I went through a period of confusion for about 30 to 40 minutes, and I saw three old men who thanked them, walking in a surreal stinky ditch, chatting a lot of empty words, and I don't know what the director is going to say. So I started to get restless, trying to find a way to decode it, a key to forcibly unlock the dream.
First of all, analyze the attributes of the characters: the poor + the writer + the professor, one common man, one more practical, one more theoretical, two intellectuals, I guess the theme is mostly related to culture and creation, so let the three visit the mysterious "area" , as three people exploring the "road of creation" to interpret the plot, and they found the key to the dream!
The film suddenly became clear: the two intellectuals were exhausted of inspiration and wanted to use the poor to obtain materials (after all, most artists' creations are to observe and describe the bottom society.), so the poor became their "stalkers" to lead the way People and three people entered a creative area to explore, which is full of mystery and unknown. The only criterion is "the farther the road is, the safer it is", that is, "the farther the detours are in the creation, and the less shortcuts are taken, the safer the creator is."
The "room" they are looking for is the "comfort zone" in artistic creation. To enter here, they must pass through a black pipe full of barbs and run through neck-deep sewage, but "most people are in It died here.” In real society, many artists also fell here, because this is the so-called “bottleneck period” of artistic creation.
The writer "Porcupine" once arrived in the "room", he quickly gained wealth, but inexplicably committed suicide... The rumors in the film that sounded suspicious, with this key, became easy to understand - Porcupine found He quickly became popular, staying in the comfort zone, constantly accumulating wealth. After becoming rich, he lost his fulcrum, committed suicide, and sought relief.
The three of them finally arrived at the door of the "room", but they slumped on the ground together, clearly expecting, but they were afraid when they faced it. Oh, people are paradoxes.
In the film, Laota uses the mouth of the poor to secretly praise the poetry collections of the ancestors of the family. At the end, after reading a book, the poor son can move things in the air and speak witty words, and he seems to have magical power.
In the final place, the camera of the poor family is reversed, and a wall of books is full of dazzling, reversal irony - the literate poor! The poor who touch the core of creation are silent, but the idiots who claim to be writers and professors are poor and slick and chatter endlessly... This damned current state of creation, speechless and fussing, is really a slap in the face.
The train, as an important prop for traveling through time and space, runs through the beginning and end of the film, making this trip a dreamlike reality, where the reality is unclear, bridges, minecarts, houses with water... Fortunately, these images are relatively simple, and the talented director "XX" Picnic" and "Earth XXXX" are easier to learn.
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