Denis Villanuve has beautiful movies that look cool, but this is different. The way he even just films three men's faces looking at the camera is hitting you in a way that's just like I can't describe why that's emotionally intense. You all of a sudden you literally feel yourself being pulled towards the screen. There's nothing that makes me want to say oh my god I gotta rewind and see what those objects are on the nightstand. It's not like it's not like that.
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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