Filmmaker Reaction/Commentary of Stalker FIRST TIME WATCHING
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2022
- In this video I'll be reacting to the Russian Science Fiction film Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and stars Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh
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Things I Liked
1-Camera composition
2-Camera movements
3-Atmosphere
4-Symmetrical shots
5-Zoom ins/Outs
6-Long takes
7-Tracking shots
8-Locations used
9-Editing
10-Acting
11-Pull off dramatic moments in performances
12-Sound design
13-Thought provoking
14-It's Bizarre
15-Concept
16-Re-watch ability
17-Runtime
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The trick with movies by Tarkovsky, Bergman, Kubrick and many others like them is that you're not really supposed to "get" them. There's no trick to unlocking them because they're not puzzles to be solved. They're not trying to get you to think about a certain thing in a certain way. They are presenting you with concepts and inviting you to think about them in your own way. I can't remember who said this and I'm paraphrasing heavily, but education shouldn't be about pouring information into the basins of people's minds. Instead it should be about laying out a stream of ideas and inviting people to fill their basins from the steam as they will.
This is my favorite film of all time, by my favorite director. I've only seen it about five times, and have seen many other movies way more times. I just feel that Stalker is so full of quality that I can only seldom watch it. It's always a special experience, a work of raw genius, and I think Tarkovsky is one of the greatest artists ever, up there with, say, Shakespeare and Michelangelo. I'm new to your channel, and I hope to see you watch more Tarkovsky as well as other brilliant films I'm not aware of.
Black dogs have been used to symbolize grief or misery. While searching for the Room the group didn't acknowledge it even though it was always present, as if they were avoiding or running away from it. The dog being with them at the bar in the end could be a metaphor of accepting and making peace with grief.
But that's just my thought on the matter.
Wow that's an interesting thought. Thanks for sharing that!
The Zone to me seems like a metaphor for human journey towards achieving their true desires. To go towards what you want in a straight path is a way to get lost, or killed. And in the end, nobody went into the room. Thus in a way implying, that what we really want isn't something material. If it was, then it'd be just be another milestone, and off we go to chasing the next goal. That, or it would be game over, with nothing else to strive for. The journey itself is what brings a transcendental fulfillment.
Interesting interpretation, thanks for sharing that!
That’s a great way to look at it. And would also explain as to why The Professor wanted to blow up the Room because he believed anyone who believes The Room and hurries over there could have the worst intentions like remaking the world the way they see fit could be applied in today’s climate with everything going on and trying to achieve the best of our desires but it ends up hurting us more than helping if that makes sense. That’s a great interpretation.
I'm not sure if you mentioned it here but the film was made three times. Yes three times! The first time the entire film stock was ruined by chemicals (only two images exist and the dream sequence and this film is from the original) though unfortunally the original was burned in a house fire and only few audience members saw it. They say it was extremely beautiful but different to this version while some say it was the exact same but shot in a different order. The second time they made it halfway through again but the director didn't like to cinematography because it wasn't "magical enough" I quote. So he fired him and brought a new cinematographer. This version is the final version though I would have loved to see all three versions though I believe the second version is stored somewhere. This film was based on a Book called Roadside Picnic about Aliens leaving the earth in ruins and a golden sphere that grants any wishes. The director had made the writers of the book write the screenplay dozens of times to remove the science fiction elements because of the directors hate of science fiction movies like 2001. Also this film is the reason we have the games Last of Us and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Great video man! I have the criterion you should buy it.
Thanks for sharing that Info! 3 times my goodness! Glad you enjoyed the video also!
@@nathansreviews3377 Np! I enjoy explaining movie info whenever I can.
@@nathansreviews3377 Also I really just want to say this. If you watch the ORIGINAL Russian trailer for this movie is includes not only takes from the original film (the first one that burned) it includes takeout and deleted scenes
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He took the bomb apart and threw the pieces in, so no he did not blow it up. Stalker is my favorite Tarkovsky film. Second is The Sacrifice, with Solaris a close third. Another great film suggestion, not Tarkovsky and certainly different but well worth the watch, is Holy Motors (2012), a French film by Leos Carax. The first half of the film slowly breaks down your mind until the intermission, where your mind snaps and gives up any resistance, allowing the film to just flow over you, then it begins to rebuild your perception through the second half of the film.
I've always thought this movie is about the idea, people are so fixated on an end goal they don't realize they never truly cared about reaching it so along the way they never truly appreciate the journey and people they experience along the way to get to an end goal,
and what they actual wanted was the people and journey and are left feeling empty and dissatisfied when they reflect back.
blessings!
Your point about conflict and the nature of film having to do with these challenging ideas reminds me of a quote by Andrei Tarkovsky: “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
I'd also like to recommend another film by Tarkovsky called Mirror. It's significantly more challenging than Stalker but I consider it to be his best (and also my favorite film of all time to boot).
Thanks for sharing that quote!
Called how????
@@sassymenses Lol I wrote Mirror but for some reason it didn't show up in the comment when I pressed send. Thanks, UA-cam
@@themanemperorofmankind5207 xD
4:26 the music sounds more like the music you hear in a Buddhist temple or in a forest for meditation.
Indeed, very true! Thanks for pointing that out.
M ♤ S T E R P I E C E !
I love the honesty of the ending, where the stalker admits that he himself can't brave doing fully into the endzone ... yet his soul really needs to see someone else do it. That is such a big part of what people do in real life, trying to move the dream onto the next person in order to avoid the shattering feeling that it was empty. At the end, with the moving glass, we can either claim it's being moved psychically or by vibration - so it's in that liminal space, delaying the eventual truth, that I think the film is talking about. I read the book it's based on (Roadside Picnic) many years ago, while my head was spinning from being a foreman in a really tough court case, and the book is far more about how people take mysterious, powerful objects from the zone and use them without understanding their alien technology at all. In a way, in Stalker, Tarkovsky removes the technology and turns it into an exploration of how we mentally trade what's incomprehensible.
I think you should watch an Indian, Malayalam movie called KUMBALINGI NIGHTS
aliens have visited earth and had a short picnic. they left behind artefacts or similar, rubbish in other words, and that is the zone. when i remember right. based on a story by the brothers arkadi and boris strugazki. solaris is another masterpiece from tarkovski.
Фильм, который надо смотреть под спиртом или опиатами.
React to Evangelion.
If you want to watch a really talented unusual movie of Soviet production, then I advise you to pay attention, for example, to some films by Karen Shakhnazarov, namely "City Zero", "Dreams", "Poisons, or the World History of Poisoning", but especially "city Zero". These films also have excellent camera work and music, but other than that they are full of ideas, stories, expressive characters and subtle absurd humor. If I'm not mistaken, all these films can be found directly on UA-cam with English subtitles. Although the subtitles are not very accurate and do not convey all the subtleties, but still I am sure that it will be very interesting for you to watch.
Thanks for the recommendations!
@@nathansreviews3377 I don’t need gratitude, I’m a misanthrope. But I really recommend watching films. It won’t be difficult, but there are a lot of impressions. If, of course, you are a fairly developed young man)))Just try it. And most likely, you will not be disappointed.
Why that nickname, are you acid Kastaneda-fan? Don’t spread your misanthropy over here!
Misanthropist can’t advice a good movie. Watch better the Island by Lungin, it is deep enough) Be philanthropist better)))
@@nathansreviews3377 but beware, because Shakhnazarov has turned into a neofascist recently.
You need to watch RRR(original language Telugu), its literally one of the best movie i have ever watched.
I thought it was pretty bad.
Looking forward to RRR Reaction
watch Padmawat most amazing movie based on a true story
must watch !!!!
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"Filmmaker Reaction" hahaha. watching youtubers try and react to brilliant films is so fun. they try so hard.
cheers glad you enjoyed it!
@@nathansreviews3377 as a channel that bills itself as "filmmaker" id love to hear you say anything original.
@@npotufsstrugas6390 Fair enough, watch and enjoy those channels that know more then. What channels do you enjoy watching? You might like James vs Cinema he certainly seems to know his stuff.
@@nathansreviews3377 i cant tell if your insulting me or james vs cinema? another want to be filmmaker who has never made anything while critiquing some of the best films ever made. do you want to be a youtuber? or a filmmaker?
@@npotufsstrugas6390 ahh I see you don't like his work either. Okay well I like his work and also channels like ralph the movie maker, Your movie sucks, Chris Stuckman (he is in the works of making a film so I imagine you would like his stuff). Now if you don't like these channels that's completely fine and your point of view and I can respect that. I also wonder is it possible to be both a youtuber and filmmaker? You gotta start somewhere right?
reaction leon the Professional 1994 Amzing movie thank you
Will do, added to my list.
Plzz react to RRR movie it is one of the best directed movie in Indian cinema
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I really hated this movie. Taking complex ideas and explaining it in a simple way, that takes talent. Taking simple ideas and making it vague, complex and boring is just cruel. Pls know that I don't have a problem with slow movies.
You have 0 faith in the zone……..
I myself was born in the Soviet Union and have read the original book by the Strugatsky brothers more than once, and also played the games of the Stalker series. And I can safely say that this film is a pretentious dummy, without a plot and meaning, but with an attempt to depict pseudo-philosophical reasoning. What is good in this film is the camera work and in some places the music of the composer Artemiev, but otherwise there is nothing to look for here. The level of supposedly "deep philosophical thoughts" here roughly corresponds to the level of a conversation between three old alcoholics drinking vodka while playing dominoes in the courtyard of a Soviet apartment building.
What do you think about Ran and Seven samurais by Kurosawa?
Сильные заявления (и глупые). Впрочем, у каждого свое мнение
ok buddy
@@SiniyLazutchik в правде ничего)))))
Yo yo.. I love ur reactions. How can we connect with you? Do you use any social media?
Not at the moment. That's something I will do soon though.