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Stalker (1979)

Mystery | 163 minutes
3,84 1.229 votes

Genre: Mystery / Scifi

Duration: 163 minuten

Alternative title: Сталкер

Country: Soviet Union

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starst: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn and Nikolay Grinko

IMDb score: 8,0 (152.083)

Releasedate: 25 May 1979

Stalker plot

Stalker tells the story of a writer and scientist who, led by the guide Stalker, enter a Forbidden Zone. Constantly threatened by visible and invisible dangers, the three men try to reach a mysterious room located in the zone. This room can fulfill the deepest wishes and the most ardent desires.

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tbouwh

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Unfortunately, this movie was too hard for me to get through. The intense rest and slow pacing are as much a curse as a blessing...

When the three main characters reach the nature reserve near the Zone, Stalker briefly reaches that cinematic perfection for me. You hear and feel the silence, and you know that the characters are experiencing the same at that moment. However, then the film progresses again, and it struck me time and again how paradoxical I was towards the slow progress. On the one hand, it is the power of the film. That pacing makes my eye even more on certain film technical aspects. The strong camera work, for example (especially in the first part of the film). Or the sound design with the off-screen train. However, because Stalker takes place at a high level of abstraction, and also because the film is so slow, I never got into it.

I had no affinity with the three characters, and the theme of the film was fascinating, but not touching. Interesting dialogues at times, in a play between biblical allegories, metaphysical representations and academic materialism. But it is all presented so dry and heavy that it really left me completely cold as a viewer.

It means that I can only conclude that I thought it was a long, tiring session. One with some film technical and content highlights, but that is not nearly enough for a pass.

2*

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HK Senator

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First I saw Tarkovsky's Solaris. The film is considered a masterpiece by many so I was curious. I found it incomprehensible, way too long-winded and ultra boring. That was one of the reasons for me not to go and see Tarkovsk's other masterpiece “Stalker”. Finally, after I had once again read praise for this film, I gave in. On the back of the DVD cover, which I got from the library, it even stated that it was an exciting adventure film. Anyway, the cover gave a lot of info. The entire story, including plot, was described in detail. It's a good thing I always only read that afterwards, although a little foreknowledge can't hurt Stalker, because otherwise you don't understand it anyway. Everyone may think Tarkovsky is a genius and his films are masterpieces, and somehow I understand that, but the best man didn't make his films for me. Stalker was also an unbearable slow monstrosity that crawls painfully slowly. The whole story, if you can talk about story at all, can easily be told in half an hour. In any case, if you delete all the endless shots in which nothing happens and nothing is said, there is at most half an hour left. The high score here on moviemeter is therefore a mystery to me. But hey, to each his own. Tarkovsky is definitely over for me. The two interviews on the DVD and the last shot did yield some sympathy for the makers. However, you should not judge a film by how the shooting conditions were. But without these extras it would have been a 0.5.

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