
64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker
About Buildings + Cities
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Introduction
The film is based on a novel called Roadside Picnic by the brothers Arcadian Boris Strigutsky. It's another kind of cousin to Solaris in that again it's a story featuring slightly unknowable aliens or the slightly unknowable alien mind. I've actually met people who like all of them best. Some people like Andre Rublev because it's so epic and in a different way strange and still has a narrative. This one is like the archetypical one that in a way most sums up the tropes.
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