One of the very clear themes that I can't miss is that this notion that the room is going to grant your inner most desire but you don't know your innermost desire. Tolstoy found his innermost desire was something base and he couldn't handle that. He thought he was going in there to like bring his brother back but instead he just got a lot of money they're just exhausted by the end.
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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