Reviews

He describes traps and says detours are safer than direct paths, but the characters NEVER encounter ANY danger AT ALL, there's even a hallway that the movie dwells on trying to convince us and the characters that it's supposed to be scary, Stalker even hides behind one of his clients, calling out to...

Within the Zone exists a room said to grant the inner desires of those who enter, and we watch as the men wind their way toward it.

Its clear that Tarkovsky intended this film to be an intensely personal experience for each individual that takes the leap into this almost 3-hour long spiritual journey, whose modest plot follows three men as they venture into the mysterious Zone, in search of a Room which supposedly has the power ...

Stalker is about a personal experience...it's reflective, as four people go into the zone...The fourth person is the movie viewer.

Bela Tarrs movies similarly make use of extremely long takes, often to an even greater extent than what is seen in Stalker.

Stalker is a very complex film, however, its plot is very simple: a man living in a desolate and miserable industrial Russian town, promises two men (a writer and a professor), that he will guide them to the center of a forbidden area known as 'The Zone' to find a room which can apparently grant wi...

Stalker is a Master's thesis of a film, one that deserves to be watched multiple times and analyzed and dissected and written about at length.

Many of you know I went on record that day that (as of now) it is the best film I have seen from the standpoint of film as a piece of art.