Chinese Version
Сталкер (USSR/West Germany)
Stalker
Enter the terrible Zone to explore the essence of the soul
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Alexander Kaidanovsky Anatoli Solonitsin Nikolai Grinko
Footage: 160min
Year: 1979
A meteorite fell to Earth, and decimated a provincial Russian town. Villagers travelled through this curious area and disappeared. Stories purport that there is an inner chamber within that grants one's deepest wish. The desperate and the suffering continue to make the treacherous journey, led by a disciplined, experienced stalker who can stealthily navigate through the constantly changing traps and pitfalls of the terrible zone. Some people has returned alone and infinitely wealthy, only to commit suicide a week later. Soon, it is evident that reaching there is not their greatest impediment, but the uncertainty over their deepest wish.
A successful Writer , perhaps searching for inspiration or adventure, and a Scientist searching for Truth, enlist the Stalker to guide them through the terrible zone.
In the terrible zone, nothing is what it seems. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearrangs itself. It seems as if an unknown intelligence were actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders.
Stalker is a visually serene, highly metaphoric, and deeply haunting treatise on the essence of the soul. Episodically, Andrei Tarkovsky uses chromatic shifts to delineate between the outside world and the terrible zone. The zone's real or imagined powers proves to be inconsequential to the weary, ambivalent seekers. It was all in the journey.
References:
You have to look into the abyss to see beyond it
Andrei Rublev, The Stalker & Social Realism... (Part: II)
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