Stalker: The Zone as a Test of Faith

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Somewhere in an unnamed country there is a forbidden, fenced-off region called the Zone, where an unexplained event — a meteorite, an alien visitation, no one knows — has left the ordinary laws of the world unstable. At the heart of the Zone is a Room, and the Room is said to grant the deepest wish of anyone who enters it. Guides called Stalkers smuggle desperate people past the soldiers and the wire, through the shifting traps, toward the Room. That is the entire plot of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), and it takes roughly two hours and forty minutes, and almost nothing in it is what a synopsis would lead you to expect.

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Stalker: The Zone as a Test of Faith