I know it's a really beloved film on this forum so I was curious to hear your take on the film.
I've just seen it and I have mixed feelings.
This is what I thought I understand from the movie. (As you can see I'm not sure of the accuracy of my understanding)(There might me spoilers)
There is a place called the zone and in the zone there is a place that can grant you a wish. There's a guy which is called stalker that gets paid to bring other people to this place. He brings with him a writer and a teacher. Along the way we learn that the zone is a dangerous place and that to actually be able to go to that place where you can have a wish you need to be unhappy and to be in search of some kind of truth about humanity. The writer went there to find inspiration, but along the way he is saying that if you know the truth and don't have any doubt you will not write, because every writer does it to prove something to others, but also to themselves. The teacher lied the whole way and went their to made it explode because he thinks that it can't help anyone and that is someone with some bad intentions goes there he could made evil. The stalker is not happy because he's saying that he is worthless and that the only thing that makes him useful in this world is to bring unhappy people there so that they can seek answers. As for the glass that moves by itself at the end I don't have a clue what it is. Actually I didn't get the ending at all.
As for the look of the film. When they're out of the zone the color is in a kind of topia, I wouldn't know how to name it differently and when they're in the zone it's in color. As for the signification of that I don't know, maybe it represents the stalker's reality. He feels useful and happy in the zone and he doesn't feel good outside of it. Honestly, I don't really like the look of the film it's very cold and depressing. It's beautifully shot and I don't have the pretention to criticize Tarkovsky style, but it feels really pessimistic
I've just seen it and I have mixed feelings.
This is what I thought I understand from the movie. (As you can see I'm not sure of the accuracy of my understanding)(There might me spoilers)
There is a place called the zone and in the zone there is a place that can grant you a wish. There's a guy which is called stalker that gets paid to bring other people to this place. He brings with him a writer and a teacher. Along the way we learn that the zone is a dangerous place and that to actually be able to go to that place where you can have a wish you need to be unhappy and to be in search of some kind of truth about humanity. The writer went there to find inspiration, but along the way he is saying that if you know the truth and don't have any doubt you will not write, because every writer does it to prove something to others, but also to themselves. The teacher lied the whole way and went their to made it explode because he thinks that it can't help anyone and that is someone with some bad intentions goes there he could made evil. The stalker is not happy because he's saying that he is worthless and that the only thing that makes him useful in this world is to bring unhappy people there so that they can seek answers. As for the glass that moves by itself at the end I don't have a clue what it is. Actually I didn't get the ending at all.
As for the look of the film. When they're out of the zone the color is in a kind of topia, I wouldn't know how to name it differently and when they're in the zone it's in color. As for the signification of that I don't know, maybe it represents the stalker's reality. He feels useful and happy in the zone and he doesn't feel good outside of it. Honestly, I don't really like the look of the film it's very cold and depressing. It's beautifully shot and I don't have the pretention to criticize Tarkovsky style, but it feels really pessimistic
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I do not speak english perfectly so expect some mistakes here and there in my messages