The average shot in this movie is over a minute but it's not like showy long takes. The camera really is a character there's on the criterion disc an interview with the cinematographer and he said that tarkovsky would like position their the people and their gestures in very precise ways um you know like he wouldn't tell them much about their characters but he would give them very precise instructions on how to stand I just don't know what specifically it's evoking but it's just like moving to the next andmoving to the next stage.
It’s the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky’s mysterious masterpiece "Stalker." A writer and professor are led by their guide (Stalker) into a cordoned off “zone” that may have been visited by a meteorite (or aliens) a couple of decades earlier. Their destination – a room in the zone that according to legend grants people their deepest desire, the one that has made them suffer the most. We gush over Tarkovsky’s filmmaking, his use of sound and music, and the richness of the questions this movie raises about meaning, art, delusion, desire, science, and faith.
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