What is the message of stalker?

“This, too, is what Stalker is about: the hero goes through moments of despair when his faith is shaken; but every time he comes to a renewed sense of his vocation to serve people who have lost their hopes and illusions.”

Why do they throw metal nuts in stalker?

A traveller must never take the same route twice. The Stalker tests the safety of the route by throwing little metal nuts knotted with rags ahead of the group before they move. He is the only one who can sense his way through the unnamed violence of the landscape, the only one who can take them to the Room.

What is Movie Stalker about?

In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. An illegal guide (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky), whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone, leads a writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) and a scientist (Nikolay Grinko) into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place known only as The Room. Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.Stalker / Film synopsis

Why is stalker movie so good?

As with all Tarkovsky films, Stalker is brilliantly made. It is grittier and more muted in colour than with his other films, but still maintains that hypnotic dream-like quality that the cinematography in his films have. The scenery is evocatively atmospheric, mundane but in a good way.

What does the Zone symbolize Stalker?

He leads them in a place known as Zone, which further may be interpreted as the human mind. The Stalker might be interpreted as symbolizing hope as he is the only one fully believing in the Room. The Writer and the Professor were not able to believe in the Room on their own. They were influenced by the Stalker.

Did the stalker enter the Room?

Stalkers are not supposed to go into the Room, but evidently Porcupine did go in there and afterwards became fabulously wealthy. However, within a week he committed suicide.

What did Tarkovsky say about Stalker?

I like Stalker the most. He is the best part of myself and at the same time the least real one. Writer—who is very close to me—is a man who has lost his way. But I think he will be able to resolve his situation in the spiritual sense.

Was Andrei Rublev real?

Andrei Rublev (Russian: Андре́й Рублёв, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej rʊˈblʲɵf] listen (help·info), also transliterated as Andrey Rublyov) was a Muscovite icon painter born in the 1360s, and died between 1427 and 1430 in Moscow.