Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife’s objections, a man rises in the early morning and leaves her with their disabled daughter to meet two men. He’s a Stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one’s secret hopes come true. His clients are a burned out popular writer, cynical, and questioning his talent; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis.
Andrei Tarkovsky is a rarity among filmmakers in that he creates films that resemble elaborate (and always smartly written, beautifully shot and superbly acted) puzzles. The pieces are always scattered, and Tarkovsky relies on his viewer to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. SOLARIS explores the boundaries of consciousness and the sense of grief (and it uses the titular planet as a metaphor for God). ANDREI ROUBLEV is a multi-layered voyage into religious belief. STALKER, however, is far more spiritual and existential than both of them.
A teacher and a scientist wish to go to a restricted patch of nature – the mythical conscious “Zone” – to make their wishes come true. To enter the area and survive its numerous danger, they hire a man sensible to the Zone’s thoughts and actions, a Stalker. What they find there turns out to be very different from what they expected, as they come to discover who they truly are.
There’s only so much you can say without getting drowned in details that would appear heavy-handed on paper but flow seamlessly on screen. Quite often, Tarkovsky reduces his characters to silence, letting their movements and eyes convey their thoughts and feelings and letting the viewer bring his own thoughts and beliefs to the film. One of STALKER’s many treats is that it invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder… In that sense, the film is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. Yet the images Tarkovsky provides – whether filming landscapes or wide-shots or simply peering into his actors’ extraordinary faces – make this almost hypnotic.
STALKER is a treasure: an invitation to go on a mental ride with a poet and philosopher. A film that makes you wonder more about yourself yet without making you anxious. The few existing films like STALKER are the reason why cinema is called “art”!
File Name : Stalker 1979.mkv
File Size : 3.25 GB / 3326.23 MB
Resolution : 800×576
Duration : 02:41:53
Video : AVC, 2 648 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 224 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 1 stream
Quality: BRRip
Language: Russian
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Art-House, Drama, Sci-Fi
