Title/Year: Stalker
(1979)
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1932
Budget: 6,000,000 RUR
Gross: n/a
Synopsis: A man acts as a guide for two other men as they enter “the zone”, a strange, rural area that can be dangerous if you don’t know how to travel through it. The guide is taking them to a place in the zone called “the room” where people’s innermost wishes come true. But as they travel, they run into trouble and when you’re in “the zone”, trouble is a very bad thing.
Narrative and Visual Keywords: Russian film, rural area, sci-fi, stalker, scientist, writer, black dog, railroad, alien area
Characterization/ Dialogue: Mysterious, sometimes confusing dialog, long scenes of quiet (no-dialog), tension, anger, fear
Camera/lighting/editing technique: Quite a few very long, drawn out scenes, big backed off shots, some tight shots, natural outdoor lighting, black and white and color.
Political/ Social Commentary: Made during the Soviet rule in Russia, so the film would have to of been approved before it was made.
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: The Chernobyl incident happened 7 years after this film was made, but many of the workers who were sent to clean up Chernobyl referred to themselves as Stalkers and that the Chernobyl was “the zone”.
Notable Collaboration : n/a
Random fact, Etc.: At least 3 members of the crew (including the director) died as a result of chemical contamination encountered on location in Estonia.
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1932
Budget: 6,000,000 RUR
Gross: n/a
Synopsis: A man acts as a guide for two other men as they enter “the zone”, a strange, rural area that can be dangerous if you don’t know how to travel through it. The guide is taking them to a place in the zone called “the room” where people’s innermost wishes come true. But as they travel, they run into trouble and when you’re in “the zone”, trouble is a very bad thing.
Narrative and Visual Keywords: Russian film, rural area, sci-fi, stalker, scientist, writer, black dog, railroad, alien area
Characterization/ Dialogue: Mysterious, sometimes confusing dialog, long scenes of quiet (no-dialog), tension, anger, fear
Camera/lighting/editing technique: Quite a few very long, drawn out scenes, big backed off shots, some tight shots, natural outdoor lighting, black and white and color.
Political/ Social Commentary: Made during the Soviet rule in Russia, so the film would have to of been approved before it was made.
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: The Chernobyl incident happened 7 years after this film was made, but many of the workers who were sent to clean up Chernobyl referred to themselves as Stalkers and that the Chernobyl was “the zone”.
Notable Collaboration : n/a
Random fact, Etc.: At least 3 members of the crew (including the director) died as a result of chemical contamination encountered on location in Estonia.
1. In
Stalker, the characters obviously don’t like their current job or situation
because the whole movie is about them trying to find “the room” which is
supposed to change their lives and grant them their deepest desire.
2.
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There is one
big symbol that I really notice in this film and that symbol is the switch form
black and white to color. It’s almost as if the director want’s the real world
(probably meaning Soviet Russia) to appear dull, dark and troubled, a lot like
a prison. But then they get out into the zone and all of a sudden there is
color, it’s almost like they are free from the gloom of society and they are on
a quest to find what they really want in life.
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3. In Stalker, the main character actually doesn’t
really control his destiny. He was born with the gift of being a stalker and
guiding people through “the zone” and he feels like he has to do it. I suppose
this can relate to the whole communist thing where they give you a job and that’s
your only job and you don’t have another choice.
Sources:
Stalker, 2012. Web. 30 January, 2012.
Stalker, Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 30 January, 2012.
Web. 30 January 2012.
Andrei Tarkovsky, Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 30
January, 2012. Web. 30 January 2012.
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