Stalker
This science fiction milestone from director Andrei Tarkovsky takes you into the Zone, a mysterious, guarded realm containing a mystical room in which occupants' secret dreams come true. Stalker, a man able to lead others to this holy grail, escorts a writer and a scientist through this foreboding territory and confronts several unexpected challenges along the way. Based on the Russian sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic.
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Pick the breakup line that best suites you: 1) Sorry, it's just not going to work out. 2) It's not you, really. It's me. 3) I love you, I'm just not IN love with you. -- "Stalker" is beautiful, deep, and fun to listen to, but my God talk about frustrating. I want to be in love with it, I just can't. I don't know if it's commercial filled television, increasingly violent and realistic movies, email, instant messaging -- hell instant everything -- that's shriveled my attention span, but I kept waiting for something to happen. Almost 3 hours of "Okay, any second that guy's head is going to blow up", or "There's going to be an alien or a zombie, or something just around that corner." Nope. Nothing. Like I said, it's just me, you may really enjoy minute-long pans across disused hospital equipment, or rusted military vehicles and abandoned buildings, but I have the attention span of a gnat. Admittedly, the photography is stunning, the characters are interesting, and this is probably a classic at some film-school student level, but it's not one I would watch again.- Deus Ex Machina
If you could have your deepest wish come true, what would you risk to have it? What if you think your deepest wish is something good, but it turns out you don't know yourself as well as you think? The Stalker is a tour guide who leads folks on a dangerous journey to a place where maybe, or maybe not, their deepest wish comes true, for good or ill. It's a slow paced, beautifully photographed meditation, well worth the trouble.
- NetflixFan
A crazy, post-apocalyptic film with an unusual storyline, gorgeous cinematography, a little bit of creepiness, and a dash of suspense and action. Stalker sucks you into Tarkovsky's world whether you really want to go there or not. The only real issue I have with Stalker is that, like a lot of Tarkovsky films, every shot is at least 5 to 30 seconds longer than entirely necessary. There's a tracking shot along the water-covered floor of an abandoned building that, while beautiful and even interesting, takes up what seems like at least a half an hour. If you go into Stalker knowing that it is a movie to which you need to give your full attention and almost 3 hours, it is most definitely worth watching. I originally rated Stalker 3 stars. A week or more after watching it, I was still thinking about it, so I upgraded it to 4. Any movie that can make me think about it long after I've seen it deserves a rating upgrade.
- pterosaur