On that day, two of the disciples went to a village called Emmaus, about twenty-five miles away from Jerusalem. They talked to each other about all these things they had encountered. Right. When talking about each other, Jesus personally approached them and walked with them, but their eyes were blurred and they didn’t recognize him. Jesus said to them, “What are you talking about when you walk?” They stopped, with faces on their faces. With sadness."-----"The New Testament-Luke"
In "The Stalker", the theme of Tarkovsky's film has embarked on a thorough metaphysical path, compared to the previous work "Mirror" The individualized self-examination in "Stalker" is a total exploration with human beings as the main body. The plot of the film is very simple. Twenty years ago, a Yun star fell to a small Russian town on the earth, and a large number of people were killed. The villagers ran away from this strange area (now known as The Zone) and disappeared. Legend has it that there is an inner room called The Room, which can satisfy people's deepest wishes. Fearing the possible consequences of this mysterious house, the army immediately fenced the area with barbed wire and patrolled the area with heavily armed troops. A successful writer and a scientist hired a guide to lead them through The Zone. Under the cloak of science fiction in the film, Tarkovsky discussed many themes such as soul, desire, belief, cognition, and coupled with the consistent magnificent lens language of the tower style, the film has become an outstanding philosophical epic.
One, two worlds
In the film, Tarkovsky uses different lens colors to construct two different worlds. Of course, the interpretation of the film is closely related to the metaphors of the two worlds. We know that Tarkovsky is a poet. Therefore, the poetic concept of life in Heidegger’s philosophy has become the most perfect spiritual home in his ideals. The district is given this meaning, which is through the tower-like image. In the ineffable of a kind of discourse, human beings can achieve the ultimate vision of happiness. As the film says, they can satisfy the deepest desires of human beings. While achieving this kind of life, everything about humans can be achieved. The truth will be revealed. In the film, Tarkovsky uses color lenses to describe the poetic world in which this truth appears. In the real world, modern iron bones composed of dilapidated factories and towering chimneys have become elements of today’s world. This is a world where truth and poetic life are obscured, so Tarkovsky used black and white film to photograph this part of time and space. In both worlds, desire becomes the subject of talk. The tragic situation in the real world is ultimately the result of the gathering of non-authentic desires. In the constant pursuit of current goals, human beings forget the essential realization of the self, and thus lose themselves, come from the real world to the world of the district, chasing the deepest layer of the heart. The journey of desire essentially forms a torture about the nature of human beings. Of course, the world in the district is not peaceful, and the constantly emerging traps will gradually engulf the human beings in it, and all of this is due to the desires of human beings themselves. The guide in the film said: The zone is a very complex system, always full of dangers. I don’t know what it looks like when no one is there, but as long as there are people, this place will move. His state is caused by our own emotions. . In the film, Tarkovsky's mysticism tendency is also brought to the extreme. The way to lead the way in the film is to throw a screw cap. This obsession with uncertainty and non-speech represents the consistent tendency of the tower. There is a passage in the film. When the writer first entered the district, he wanted not to move forward alone by throwing a screw cap, but he was warned by the district. Tarkovsky used this to show that poetic life and truth have their own limitations. The blasphemous mystery rules, the secular rules represented by the writers cannot be realized here, and the supreme vision cannot be discerned by human logic.
Two or three people
In the film, Tarkovsky focused on establishing the image of three people, the writer, the professor and the guide. For the writer, the director gave a lot of pen and ink. In the film, the writer has a total of three concentrated personal expressions, three times The difference in discourse metaphors reflects the sublimation of the writer’s personal soul. At the beginning of the film, the writer eloquently said that the world is governed by the law of pig iron, and there are no mysterious things. Even if there are districts, it is probably the same as the world. Same, it's lonely. It can be seen from the film that for the writer, the iron law of the rational world has controlled the world. Everything is regulated and regulated. The loss of uncertainty has caused the loss of freshness and relative The loss of the most important inspiration for the writer. Therefore, everything is meaningless. In the tavern, the writer said to the professor, you have discovered a truth, and I have discovered a group. It can be seen that the writer is already deeply aware of his own contradictions at this time. The cultural self-realization depends on the freedom and freedom caused by uncertainty. Freshness, of course, is incompatible with the regularization of reason. It inspires writers. However, this freedom creates difficulties in self-definition. Right and wrong can no longer be distinguished, just like the Roman artifacts in the film. It is no longer possible to appreciate it objectively, which leads to the author's self-talk in the following two paragraphs: 1 My conscience needs vegetarianism to win the whole world. And subconsciously, I yearn for a piece of juicy meat. 2 I thought I could change them. Who knew that they changed me in their own way. From these words, we can see that the writer has fallen into two predicaments. 1 Difficulty in self-definition caused by diversification. He no longer knows whether he is a writer who can be helpful to mankind. 2 The invasion of the rational world has made him lose his original intention, and he has become a puppet manipulated by others. For the professor, Tarkovsky did not pay too much attention to him. He only completed the symbolic function in line with his own identity in the outbreak at the end. Tarkovsky was more interested in his identity. -Professor of Physics, as an interpreter of the laws of the objective world, he is the spokesperson of reason. There is no mysterious or unexplainable thing in his belief system. We know that belief is a cognitive system of desire Therefore, although he and the guide both have the desire to realize the poetic life and the manifestation of truth, the difference in the cognitive system makes them take completely different actions. His rational cognitive system tells him that this kind of mysterious and unreasonable The things that will bring disasters to mankind are the source of evil, and for the guide, this is the refuge for man to escape the invasion of reason, and it is the last home of mankind. And the guide this Personality, Tarkovsky gave enough sympathy, and even the director’s own shadow can be seen from it. He is portrayed as a prophet, and he continues to lead the unfortunate people to the district to realize his own The true wish, although my daughter was born with a disability due to radiation due to her occupation, this kind of penance-like behavior not only brings hope to the unfortunate, but also realizes the value of self-generation. In the film, the guide is taciturn, but every speech is rich in philosophy. In the film, the guide has a discourse about music. He said that the meaning of music is that humans need it. This can be seen as Tarkovsky’s own Self-confession of the value of the film.
Third, a topic
Tarkovsky’s discussion of these grand themes is not metaphysical empty talk. Let’s look at the Bible at the beginning of the article. These are the two Bibles that appeared in The Stalker. The first one appeared in the film. In the middle part, the guide is lying by the water, and the voice-over is the scripture. This is a human's condemnation of self-conscience, and it is also a portrayal of the plight of the three people. Christ has lifted the seven seals and condemned mankind, which is a reflection of modern society. Profound disaster. Moral vacuum, nihilism, and rationality spread. The culprit of these risky social disasters is human beings. Tarkovsky uses an imagery lens (a very long lens on various discarded daily necessities, including the statue of the Virgin). Show this kind of disaster. (In view of the limited space, I won’t talk about it here.) Of course, Tarkovsky not only shows these dilemmas, but also provides solutions to humans. In the film, the guide wakes up by the water and looks at The sleeping writers and scientists read the second Bible aloud. The "two disciples" obviously alludes to the writers and scientists. They went to great lengths and ventured into the "zone" to find things that were actually by their side, but their eyes were already Being blinded and unable to see the truly valuable things, as if the Lord is by our side but we don't know him. What is this deceived thing? Obviously it is the great vision of human life, the truth of poetic life, but how can it be around? Combined with the end of the film, we found the answer. At the end of the film, the guide's wife showed a great love with the guide. This kind of love embodies a certain degree of poetic life and is the deepest desire in the human heart, just like Tarkov What Sky said: When the stalker’s wife came to the restaurant where they rested, the writer and scientist faced a puzzling and incomprehensible phenomenon. In front of them, the woman experienced unspeakable suffering because of her husband, and gave birth to a sick child with him; but she still loved her husband with unselfish and sincere sincerity as she did when she was young. Her love and sincerity are the ultimate miracle against the lack of faith, cynicism, and moral vacuum that poison the modern world. At the end of the film, the daughter of the guide has superhuman abilities. She can push the water glass with her eyes when she is disabled. This shows that the great emotions among humans can overcome the iron laws of the physical world, but this kind of performance is mysterious. The practical significance of "Stalker".
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