#stalker tarkovsky

[molinavalentin]

The zone is... a very complex maze of traps.

All of them are death traps.

I don't know what happens here when humans aren't around.

But as soon as humans appear, things begin to change.

Former traps disappear, new ones appear.

Safe ways become impassible.

The way becomes now easy, now confused beyond words.

This is the Zone.

It might seem capricious.

But at each moment, it's as if we construct it according to our state of mind.

I won't hide the fact that some people turned back half-way.

Some perished on the threshold of the Room.

But everything that happens here depends on us.

I think it lets through those who've lost all hope.

Not the good or the bad, but the unhappy.

[wawek]

[ave-lucjver]

Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)

[mj1982mjha]

45 YEARS OF STALKER , TARKOVSKY'S MASTERPIECE

https://mj1982m.wordpress.com/2024/05/27/45-years-of-stalker-tarkovskys-masterpiece/ STALKER by TARKOVSKY.

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[the-morn]

I love your eyes, my darling friend,

Their play, so passionate and brightening,

When a sudden stare up you send,

And like a heaven-blown lightning,

It'd take in all from end to end.

But there's more that I admire:

Your eyes when they're downcast

In bursts of love-inspired fire,

And through the eyelash goes fast

A somber, dull call of desire...

[the-morn]

Are you awake? You were talking recently about the meaning... of our... life... unselfishness of art... Let's take music... It's really least of all connected; to say the truth, if it is connected at all, then in an idealess way, mechanically, with an empty sound... Without... without associations... Nonetheless the music miraculously penetrates into the very soul! What is resonating in us in answer to the harmonized noise? And turns it for us into the source of great delight... And unites us, and shakes us? What is its purpose? And, above all, for whom? You will say: for nothing, and... and for nobody, just so. Unselfish. Though it's not so... perhaps... For everything, in the end, has its own meaning... Both the meaning and the cause...

[the-morn]

Let everything that's been planned come true.

Let them believe.

And let them have a laugh at their passions.

Because what they call passion...

actually is not some emotional energy,

but just the friction between their souls and the outside world.

And most important, let them believe in themselves

Let them be helpless like children,

because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing.

When a man is just born,he is weak and flexible,

when he dies, he is hard and insensitive.

When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant,

but when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions.

Pliancy and weakness are...

expressions of the freshness of being.

Because what has hardened will never win.

[jamuura]

Deconstructing Directors: The Conscience Of Andrei Tarkovsky

“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art.” – Tarkovsky One of the greatest filmmakers of Russia and a renowned artist in the world of films, Andrei Tarkovsky was more than just a director. Marred by turmoil…

Deconstructing Directors: The Conscience Of Andrei Tarkovsky was originally published on Jamuura Blog