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STALKER

STALKER 

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Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky 
Genre : Drama Sci-fi

Stars:

 Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,Anatoliy Solonitsyn 

Two men are guided, by a "stalker" into an area know as "The Zone" in search of a room that grants you wishes.

 This film is mainly visually interesting but to me it lacks a sens of story. This film succeeds in visually drawing you in, but sadly to me the zone felt like one big garden the only obstacle being your own thoughts.

 Takovsky is indefinably one of the greatest, that being said I did not connect to the story of the film, I found myself being emotionally infested in only the images being shown on the screen,and the metaphors they hold. But  not the characters.  the film consist of shots being shown for a long duration of time, transporting you into a dream, once we are transported into the zone, we don't really remember how we got their, much like a dream.

in a lot of ways the theme of this film could be seen as innocence, the good and bad we all hold within us. Sadly to me the impact of the theme got lost somewhere with in the two and a half hour duration of the film. 

If you are a fellow cinephile you should defiantly take up the time to watch, but if your a main stream consumer, who seeks action packed  thrills then don't waste your time. 

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