Musycks

13Mar09

Stalker stays with you... I've been chewing on it a bit, and I'm sure it's no blinding insight but I found I read it as Stalker was the Priest, the Zone was the realm of the invisible that the clerical classes help the punters navigate through, and the room was heaven/nirvana. In the attack on religion from science (The Professor) and godless media (The Writer) Stalker decries them destroying hope, even if he knows no-one has been made happy once in the room. So even if heaven is a lie, isn't false hope better than no hope? I'll be digesting it for a while yet though... and the fact he made it twice because they stuffed up the developing of the negative print makes the film even more remarkable. The Mirror and Ivan's Childhood are both in the box set I have so I'll explore those when I'm next in a Russian mood. thanks for the insights.