Post by Skipping February🚧✊🏿🚫 on Dec 28, 2016 5:32:56 GMT
Don Rumata
Here is the short version of why it is vital to the story.
The thematic underpinning of the story is by and large about belief. You have a Stalker who is deeply dependent on his belief in the zone, so much so that it seems exaggerated, meanwhile you have a character who increasingly ignores this, and goes along his way as though there is nothing special about the zone. Actually, by and large throughout the movie the zone seems as though maybe it is just a normal place. Some things stand out as very odd. An owl seems to teleport in one scene. Somehow a telephone works without any connection, and maybe there is a something weird in the way that one of them caught up to the rest of them without moving (or maybe it's a misunderstanding)
Then there is one scene in the beginning which is very intentionally placed to almost antagonize a certain type of person. A scene where a train passes by and is shown to cause a glass to vibrate and move not all that differently from the ending, but then the ending is clear. There is very little left open to interpretation. The girl clearly moves the glass, and not the train, but the train is placed in the scene to let people hold onto their beliefs. People that want to believe that there was nothing supernatural can try to argue, and will argue that this scene was to be left open to interpretation... because that is basically the point of the story. Belief is belief and a separate entity from reality. It's even pointed out plainly by the Stalkers wife "A bitter sweet happiness is better than a dull gray life." and there are only two things that are shot in color-The Zone and the Stalker's daughter, "Monkey" The two things which hold a mystic importance to the Stalker. Meanwhile people who don't believe hold the same importance in the lack of their belief, even so much so that they will argue against an obvious miracle. Its pretty genius.
The last few minutes tie together what is a rather inconclusive blob of feelings and ideas into a concrete vision of belief in man.
Here is the short version of why it is vital to the story.
The thematic underpinning of the story is by and large about belief. You have a Stalker who is deeply dependent on his belief in the zone, so much so that it seems exaggerated, meanwhile you have a character who increasingly ignores this, and goes along his way as though there is nothing special about the zone. Actually, by and large throughout the movie the zone seems as though maybe it is just a normal place. Some things stand out as very odd. An owl seems to teleport in one scene. Somehow a telephone works without any connection, and maybe there is a something weird in the way that one of them caught up to the rest of them without moving (or maybe it's a misunderstanding)
Then there is one scene in the beginning which is very intentionally placed to almost antagonize a certain type of person. A scene where a train passes by and is shown to cause a glass to vibrate and move not all that differently from the ending, but then the ending is clear. There is very little left open to interpretation. The girl clearly moves the glass, and not the train, but the train is placed in the scene to let people hold onto their beliefs. People that want to believe that there was nothing supernatural can try to argue, and will argue that this scene was to be left open to interpretation... because that is basically the point of the story. Belief is belief and a separate entity from reality. It's even pointed out plainly by the Stalkers wife "A bitter sweet happiness is better than a dull gray life." and there are only two things that are shot in color-The Zone and the Stalker's daughter, "Monkey" The two things which hold a mystic importance to the Stalker. Meanwhile people who don't believe hold the same importance in the lack of their belief, even so much so that they will argue against an obvious miracle. Its pretty genius.
The last few minutes tie together what is a rather inconclusive blob of feelings and ideas into a concrete vision of belief in man.
