Year: 1979
I cannot review this movie beacause I am completely overwhelmed every time i watch it.
All that i can say is, if you haven't seen a Tarkovsky, you haven't seen anything at all. He takes the movie medium & turns it into art & all we can do is watch with wonder, every frame, every dialogue, every little sequence, pieces of a masterpiece.
One of my favourite movies, one i can watch over & over again & every time is like a revelation. You want to freeze every scene so that you can remember it vividly when you close your eyes, you want to memorize the dialogue so that you could keep quoting from it. And at the end, you are left with a sense of having witnessed something magnificent, a deep, rich, full feeling. Very few things can give you that feeling.
True art, in every sense.
6 comments:
Too Dreary for me.
But I quoted lines from it often.
Everytime I see the church scene in Nostalghia or the first scene of Solyaris, I tremble. Tarkovsky didn't make cinema. He painted on the screen.
@WIAN... shut up, i keel ew! ;)
(i hope you've seen Achmed? if not go watch on you tube or something)
@the none... absolutely man!
I thought Stalker was very pretentious - especially in the pholosophical discussion he is bringing out... I have more profound discussions when four ppl are drunk and talk thru the night..:D .. solaris was totally different.. that was brilliant!
well, you really have to be able to think a certain way to appreciate whatever is the message of Stalker. I know people who love it or hate it, there's nothing in between, it's because people are either open to what is being said, they can feel it, or they are closed & feel it's all mindless nonsense.
Like Herman Hesses's Steppenwolf, most people think it's all rubbish, Siddhartha is better & so on. Hesse mentioned somewhere that the book is not meant for young people, they can't understand the subject matter simply because they won't undersatnd the way the protagonist, a man past his prime, can feel.
Similar case for Stalker. You need an inclination toward, spirituality, if i may call it that, to get it, otherwise it will indeed seem pretentious & preachy. All great works of art will seem pretentious if you aren't attuned to the artists soul, it works that way.
Your 'Achmed' isn't even documented on imdb! To me that's the limit of "cinematic obscurity". All pun intended. :P
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