Stalker

Yesterday, I embarked on a journey to space with Andrei Tarkovsky. Today we didn’t leave Earth, but it was still an almost three-hour ride. Well, a ride... Again, there was a great deal of philosophizing, and long, long shots in which nothing at all happened, and on which Agnieszka Holland probably based her film I, Olga Hepnarova. There was a lot of wandering through the countryside, throwing nuts and, gradually, the feeling of being robbed of three hours of my life was coming over me again. As far as Mr. Tarkovsky is concerned, I’m not going to make the same mistake for the third time. I guess I’m just not mentally mature enough for his films. (05/01/2021)

"Hardness and strength are companions of death, weakness and flexibility are an expression of the freshness of being." The notion of human humility against the belief in one's infallibility, power, and exclusivity - which proves to be fragile and uncertain when it comes to revealing what is truly inside, what this belief is truly based on. A film containing countless stimuli for reflection, from which everyone can take away something different in the end, but will certainly not be the same as when they came to the film at the beginning - just like Stalker, The Writer, and The Professor after visiting the "Zone." (07/03/2012)

This is exactly one of those movies that I will have to see again in order to appreciate it. Tarkovsky uses an interesting form which immediately impresses you - I mean the color scheme, which has two different forms. But it is a demanding work that requires your attention, it requires you to think. However, it is definitely worth watching. (19/03/2015)

Better is bitter happiness than a boring life. A powerful philosophical work with many metaphors that screams at the viewer throughout its two and a half hour runtime: "Either you will attentively watch me the entire time and get everything, or you will try to watch me as an ordinary disposable product and get nothing." The sea of Tarkovsky's thoughts, supported by minimalist and mystical music and wonderfully detailed camera work, brought me an unprecedented viewer experience and one of the most intellectually stimulating films of my life. (29/03/2007)