It's hard to figure out what it's an allegory for. I don't have any confidence that I understand the metaphorical aspect of the movie or even that there are metaphors for anything. It gives us enough that we're not we can't just say any old thing. If it's two on the nose it's not interesting but there is the worry that like you can make it so complex or about some like have so many different angles to it that any interpretation would work.
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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