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Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild

Very Bad Wizards

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Is Stalker a Christian or a Tolstoy?

There's so much Christian imagery in the movie that I don't know what he's trying to do with it other than just another little thing you can grasp onto if you so choose. was watching that how much of that was just like found in that shitty like area already and how much he planted in there yeah. He had some Christian uh orthodox inclinations I see him a lot like Tolstoy where it's more of just a way into some deeper dimension of reality but it doesn't have to be the same way. Stalker then gives this speech kind of uncharacteristic about music which is his belief that there is meaning and a reason to why we can respond to something It has not

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