Film Review: Stalker
In Russian, with English subtitles
Stalker, like most of Tarkovsky's films, is a stunning visual poetry. And, like many poems that we decide to be beautiful in the way the colorful tapestry of fancy and common words are wound, Stalker looks beautiful despite its hidden meanings as a parable. Stalker as a film, like some beautiful poems with words that don't mean as they seem, is not an easy film. It's the reason it took me time to finally make it past the first half of the 161-minute long film. I have to emphasize that, although it's talky, it's never boring because the imagery and use of colors are things to behold.
Stalker is a science fiction film. In the film, three men travels to the Zone. The Zone is an industrial waste land, the ruins of a (once) industrial zone after a meteorite (or meteorites) fell on it. It's believed that any man who travels to the Zone, and collect artifacts left behind by aliens, will have his wishes come true. One of these men is the guide, the so-called stalker. They enter the Zone illegally. But something goes wrong.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
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