Stalker

""nobody can know their true intentions"" stalker (1979)

unbounded we seek 

outside

what is not found

inside

we are bound to repeat

Author's Note

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

but finding what's inside is the only way to really unbind us from what is stalking us...conscience is often not enough...we must open up and explore the possibilities, follow the clues like Hercule Peroit ...
a few words here to make us think, and reach inside our own minds.
j.

[Davidgeo]

The search begins within indeed. But what you find inside will always be tempered by what you run into outside. In real life, we never truly grasp what our intentions really are after all things are considered. We will always have questions in retrospect. To ever actually become one with our "stalker" would defeat the purpose of our existence. The true nightmare "existence" might be what happens after we find too much insight into our own intentions. The cognitive dissonance might be crippling. I highly recommend the movie Stalker, it's not the most riveting piece of cinema but the cinematography is uniquely beautiful and... it is a highly insightful movie if you read about it beforehand. The first couple times I watched this movie was purely for the cinematography and mythos. It's in Russian and the story telling is very opaque as Tarkovsky loves to do it... but, if you know what you are in for I think Stalker is one of best sci fi/existential philosophy films of all time.

[The Unknown Sith]

Short but deep. This is good.

[Davidgeo]

Don't take acid and watch a movie by the name of Stalker. You don't want to do that.

[Ayesha Faiz]

I get this... it feels so real. We all keep looking for peace or answers outside, when the truth is they’re missing inside us. And when we don’t find them, we end up repeating the same search again and again.

[Davidgeo]

Welcome to the party Ayesha. I'm glad we could share a moment of it here.

[Davidgeo]

Sorry... I'm watching Total Recall at the moment and I just watched the part where Michael Ironside get's his arms ripped off by an elevator and Arnold says "see you at the party Richter!!" in Arnold voice.

[Davidgeo]

See you at the party Ayesha

[Ayesha Faiz]

You're quite lively I think. It's nice that you got your ideas from the show. A nice scene you've explained here about Total Recall. I can picture the scene a little bit just from your explanation.
Nice work though. Keep it up!

[Laz K.]

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
— C.G. Jung, "Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self"

[Davidgeo]

That is a very valuable piece of insight to be aware of.

[Ms claws]

The poem is amazing! I love the mind of a pervert, genius, savant.

I kinda got the video. Mankind ruins everything.

[Davidgeo]

You should watch that movie in it's entirety. Tarkovsky's movies are visual poetry. That movie in particular is especially unique, look into how it was made, what they went through to finally finish it and what eventually happened to many of those who stuck around to finish it. It's a very interesting part of cinematic history.

[Ms claws]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc

[Davidgeo]

If you are going to really subject yourself to the whole thing I would read a summary of the plot first. It's not an easy movie. I loved the cinematography as soon as I saw it but it took me a long time to understand what it was trying to say.

[Ms claws]

. . . . . . . . . . ................ and I coulda been d***o shopping

[Davidgeo]

Understanding Tarkovsky's Stalker will end up being more satisfying than any d***o you can find on the market.

[Ms claws]

Seriously, I have the link to STALKER EXPLAINED | True Meaning of Andrei Tarkovsky's Masterpiece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XfmsYTyJ_s ...It just really blew my mind. I'm seriously planning on watching How to Understand It. You are very smart under all that bullshit.

[Davidgeo]

Dive into it. The "understanding" part is not really a thing with that movie. It will be a personal revelation. Everyone "understands" that movie a little differently. Which I think was the point Tarkovsky was trying to make. What we seek to understand in ourself and if we do that honestly we will have a better understanding of the outside, the other. We are all looking for something very similar and "it" probably doesn't exist... the searching part is real though. That's probably the only thing that's real.

[Davidgeo]

We all share something we cannot explain. Our efforts to understand may be our true commonality.