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In Reply to: stalker posted by fredgarvin on November 07, 2002 at 15:00:15:
As much as I love Tarkovsky, I was not able to finish the Stalker. We tried several times, making small progress each time... but still no.Perhaps because I never liked the Strugatski brothers - the writers of the novel. Good actors, but something just doesn't click.
Should I try once again?
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Basically just 2 word Stalker and Zona
I don't think I ever finished any of their novels, so I'll take your word. I always concidered them super-intellectual cult kaka nor worthy any serious attention. But their popularity was staggering.Much like the Arthur Hailey's "Airport". You had to wait in like for months to get to read it. Both my wife and I were bevildered when it was finally was our turn. But some Russian "intellectuals" would argue hotly.
Someone gave my wife the Strugatsky book recently, saying: "You missed it all, try it this time seriously". She tried. She simply can't read that stuff.
To enjoy the Stalker it is probably best to have no actual familiarity with Russia
Tarkovsky takes us from the opening scene (which is a magnificent piece of understatement in itself) on to a place so far removed from what most Westerners are familiar with, that it could be the dark side of the moon.
Cleverly, Tarkovsky familiarises the audience with the bleak interiors and wide expanses, until by the films end, when the wife slips on the ice at the entrance to the bar, it could be our own front door
The seamless way the film goes from Black and White, to Sepia, to Color I've never seen in any other film
Tarkovsky plays a trick with the viewers perception of space and time when the travellers get lost in the "Zone" at one point that's also very clever; they come back to the same spot they started from as if no time had passed, it's quite eery
It's a most unusual film that is certainly not to most peoples taste, I think it's Tarkovskys greatest film, the acting and the dialog are low key but very well crafted
Let's see if they can do a remake of that, with George Clooney as the Stalker
Eric
Tokyo
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