#tarkovsky stalker

[theromanticrationalist]

“We’re about to enter worm territory. We can’t walk like regular humans, if we do we’re dead. We’ll have to walk like the Fremen do. It’s called the sand walk.”

“I told you, it’s not a place for peaceful walks. The Zone requires respect to itself. Otherwise, it punishes.”

Dune (2021) Dir. Denis Villeneuve | Stalker (1979) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[theromanticrationalist]

The Cinematic Poet | Tarkovsky’s Stalker: On The Road to Emmaus

Stalking the Holy Spirit through The Zone

"Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. [...] Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing." | Stalker (1979).

"For Tarkovsky, to improve ourselves spiritually is the noblest pursuit of the artist – or in this case the filmmaker – and in this way, Tarkovsky’s films become sacred spaces to quiet the mind and stir the soul. Whether or not Tarkovsky found Heaven in the end, weighed down by the sorrows of his life and leaving this world through cancer, is something we cannot know for certain, but I believe with all my heart that through his films we can touch the fringes of Heaven’s garment, and perhaps by doing so find our hearts renewed."

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