Tarkovsky's The Stalker

[Richard Romeo]

The dude who made Solaris has another mind bender called The Stalker, a 
three hour movie meditating on the nature of reality and belief systems.  
Apparently, a man called a stalker is a guide for a physicist and a 
writer into the "Zone", a place where reality changes moment by moment.  
It is protected by the government with barbed wire, machine guns, 
soldiers, etc.  Oh, the Zone is pastoral, in color, outside, it's 
stalin-gray, blown out buildings, rubbish, and another strange kind of 
fear.  Speculation is the Zone can give you what you ultimately wish 
for.  And that the Zone was caused by a meteorite...

I expected heavy visuals but this movie is very subtle in its splendor.  
Picture Dostoevsky on either some low-level mescaline or some really 
great hash.  Lots and I mean lots, of dialogue.

I'll leave it up to those who've seen it to make the connections with 
that other "Zone."  I'm sure there are plenty.  I think the movie came 
out in 1979.

Rich Romeo

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