The first thing I wanted to talk about with you was the use of the sepia tone at the beginning. So like Tamler said this movie is about a place called the zone that we don't know what happened. You know there's some speculation about whether it was like aliens or was it a meteorite or a visitor from outer space who knows. They travel into the zone but before they do we're in his apartment with his family and even before that we're in a bar. But it's a serious just dingiest looking bar imaginable.
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.
Plus, does having a small penis make you want to buy a sports car? Pre-crisis social psychology is back!
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