Stalker

"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)

A gem that demands quite a lot from the viewer. Stalker basically transcends the boundaries of the medium, rather than a film, it’s a philosophical composition that you can grasp in any way, and no one can say their interpretation is the right one – or the wrong one, depending on how you look at it. (21/09/2009)

This is a paradox. Stalker is now a cinematic concept that everyone watches in a dogged attempt to understand its message and to fit each abstract shot into an imaginary mental puzzle. However, the more we know and think about the film, the more confused we get and end up knowing nothing; and to be honest, it’s better that way. You should keep your brain active, because you won't see so much cinematic beauty, visual art and extremely dense atmosphere anywhere else, but it's really better to let yourself be absorbed and sucked into the Zone than to try to shape and twist it to your will. For me personally, one of the weirdest, most interesting and most moving cinematic experiences ever. And yes, I want to watch it again, several times... (14/02/2014)

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)