Everything comes together to give such an atmospheric and ambient feel throughout. The score is quite haunting and helps convey the desolate tone of the film. The visual storytelling is also excellently done. All the colour is washed out initially, and when the film enters The Zone, everything becomes luscious and vibrant. The film presents a dystopian post industrial vision of Russia. It is hypnotising to watch, the visuals are both beautiful and haunting, and the camera movement was meticulous.
Stalker transports you to an alien world without the use of alien visuals with the help of its non-invasive cinematography, editing, and score.
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This is the first movie I’ve seen from Andrei Tarkovsky, and already I want to watch more of his films because his work here is fantastic. It was quite compelling watching these three talk, again the dialogue between them is intriguing and thought provoking. Even though these characters make this journey, what they think they want is far from what they really desire. Each character desires something, which is why they travel into The Zone. These three characters involved are quite different – the Stalker, the Writer, and the Professor, played by Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn and Nikolai Grinko respectively. The performances are great, as are the writing of these characters. While I think this won’t work for everyone, I was surprisingly finding it gripping and I wasn’t distracted or bored. Stalker definitely takes its time to unravel, at 160 minutes long and with a very steady pace. It presents some themes that are intriguing and thought provoking, some of the standouts being the disconnect between what we want vs what reality will let us have. The dialogue is thought provoking and deep, and very relevant to the themes and events that unfold. They talk about a lot, especially philosophy, faith, fear, the purpose of existence, life and the meaning of it all. I also loved the dialogues between the three characters, and there’s a lot of talking. The film takes quite a steady and solemn approach to its existential questions, with the characters’ frustrations and doubts being conveyed through some beautifully written dialogue, and monologues. It is very deep, intelligent and thought provoking, and takes you on a philosophical and psychological journey. While it does sound very straightforward, there’s an endless amount of things in this movie that can intended as metaphors, and definitely source for analysis. Essentially, Stalker is about a man with no purpose guiding two other men, who are trying to find purpose, towards a post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone to fulfil their desires. Second of all, it’s very much something that you will have to experience for yourself as each person can get different things out of it. First off all, it’s really complex and hard to describe. Writing a review for Stalker is very difficult. While I wouldn’t try to pretend that I understand everything about the film, I think it is amazing. After seeing that Stalker has been celebrated as a fantastic movie by many, I wanted to check it out.
I knew it was a famous film from a director called Andrei Tarkovsky (whose films I hadn’t watched yet), it was Russian, it’s quite long, and it was in the sci-fi genre.
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