Stalker
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In a small, unnamed country there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland
known as The Zone.
The government has declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed off the area with barbed wire
and border guards. However, this has not stopped people from attempting to enter the Zone.
We follow one such party,
An illegal guide, whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone,
a writer, who wants to use the experience as inspiration for his writing,
and a professor, who wants to research the Zone for scientific purposes.
The guide leads them into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place
known only as The Room. A place where in it, is believed wishes are granted.
Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.
The guide is a man to whom the Zone is everything,
A figure known as the "Stalker".
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Complete movie,
youtube cc Subtitles
Сталкер (фантастика, реж. Андрей Тарковский, 1979 г.)
https://youtu.be/TGRDYpCmMcM
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specific scenes.
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Train
Train scene - 'Stalker' (HD)
https://youtu.be/W_hWqsWHac8
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Happines
Stalker 1979 Writer - Professor dialogue
https://youtu.be/mhhotsAMde0
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You've brought here many people.
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Not as many as I would like.
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That's not the point. Why did they come here? What did they want?
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Happiness, I guess.
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Yes, but what kind of happiness?
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People don't like to speak about their innermost feelings. And it's neither yours nor mine business.
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In any case, you've been lucky. As for me, I haven't seen one happy man in my life.
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Me neither.
They return from the room and I lead them back, and we never see each other again.
It's not that wishes come true immediately.
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Have you ever wished to use this room yourself?
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I'm fine as I am.
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Listen, Professor. Speaking of the purchased inspiration.
Let's imagine that I enter this room and return to our God-forsaken town a genius.
A man writes because he's tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove
to himself and the others that he's worth something. And if I know for sure that I'm a genius?
Why write then? What the hell for? Well, I must say that we exist for…
B
Will you be so kind and leave me alone?
Let me get a wink, I haven't slept all night.
Keep your complexes to yourself.
a
In any case, all this technology of yours...
all those blast furnaces, wheels...and other bullshit
are only designed in order to work less and eat more.
They are all just crutches, artificial limbs.
And mankind exists in order to create...
works of art.
Unlike all other human activities, this one is unselfish.
Great illusions!
Images of the absolute truth!
Are you listening to me, Professor?
B
What unselfishness are you talking about?
People still die of hunger. Have you fallen from the moon?
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And they are considered to be, our brainy aristocracy!
You're not even capable of thinking in abstractions.
B
Are you going to teach me about the meaning of life?
And also how to think? It's useless.
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You might be a professor, but an ignorant one.
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Dream
Dream scene - 'Stalker' (HD)
https://youtu.be/TxN2tJ4D9lE
And there was a great earthquake.
And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair.
And the moon became like blood…
And the stars of the sky fell to the earth,
as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.
And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up.
And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
And the kings of the earth and the great men
and the rich and the chiliarchs and the strong and every free man,
hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
and they said to the mountains and to the rocks,
"Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of His wrath
has come, and who is able to stand?"
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Stalker
Stalker- Writer's monologue
https://youtu.be/gLN_UanuUTs
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One more experiment.
Experiments, facts, truth of the highest instance.
There's no such thing as facts. Especially here.
All this is someone's idiotic invention.
Don't you feel it?
But you, of course, must find out, whose invention it is.
And why.
What good can your knowledge do? Who is going to get guilty conscience, because of it?
Me?
I've got no conscience.I just got nerves.
Some bastard would criticize me, I get wounded.
Another would loud me, I get wounded again.
I would put my heart and soul in it,
they gobble up both my heart and soul.
I would relieve my soul of filth,
they gobble it up too.
They're all so literate. They all got sensory deficiency.
And they're all swarming around,
journalists, editors, critics, some endless broads.
And they all demand:
more, more!
What hell of a writer am I if I hate writing?
If it's constant torment for me, a painful, shameful occupation,
sort of squeezing out a hemorrhoids.
I used to think that someone would get better because of my books.
No, nobody needs me! In two days after I die they'll start gobbling up someone else.
I wanted to change them, but it's they who've changed me.
Making me in their own image. The future used to be just a continuation of the present,
with all the changes looming far behind the horizon.
Now the future and the present are one.
Are they ready for it?
They don't want to know anything! All they know is how to gobble!
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Gosh, how lucky you are! My goodness, now…
You're going to live a hundred years!
Yes. But why not forever?
Like the eternal Jew.
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My Favorite Scene from Stalker
https://youtu.be/Q_bPRyNLY5g
You're a civilized man, aren't you?
- Why? What's the matter with you?
- You, lousy hypocrite…
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Why? What have I done... to you? - He wants to destroy your hope!
That's all people have got left on this earth!,
It's the only place they can come to, if there's no hope left for them.
You yourself have come here! Why destroy hope then?
/ Shut up!,
I can see through you! You don't give a damn about people!
You just make money, using our... anguish!
It's not even the money. You're enjoying yourself here.
You're like God Almighty here. You, a hypocritical louse,
Decide who is to live and who is to die.
He deliberates!
Now I see why you stalkers never enter the room yourselves.
You revel in all that power, that mystery, your authority!
What else is there to wish for?
It's not true! You... you're mistaken. A stalker must not enter the room.
A stalker must not even enter the Zone with an ulterior motive. Remember Porcupine?
Yes, you're right, I'm a louse. I haven't done any good in this world,
and I can't do any. I couldn't give anything, even to my wife.
I can't have any friends either. But don't take mine from me!
They'd already taken everything from me back there, behind the barbed wire.
So all that's mine is here. You understand? Here! In the Zone!
My happiness, my freedom, my self-respect, it's all here!
I bring here people like me, desperate and tormented.
People who have nothing else to hope for.
And I can help them! No one else can help them,
only I, the louse, can!,
I'm so happy to be able to help them that I want to cry.
And that's all. I don't want anything more.
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Stalker's epiphany
https://youtu.be/5tIKxASMMBo
Oh God, what people…
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Calm down, it's not their fault.
You ought to pity them, not to be angry with them.
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Haven't you seen them? They've got empty eyes.
The only thing they can think about
is how to sell themselves, not too cheap!
How to get as much as possible, for their every emotional movement!
They know they were "born for a purpose", "called upon"!
After all, they live "only once"!
Can people like that believe in anything?
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Stop it, calm down. Try to sleep, will you? Go to sleep.
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And nobody believes. Not only those two. Nobody!
Who am I going to take there?
Oh, God… And what's most awful… is that no one needs it.
No one needs that room. And all my efforts are just in vain.
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Why do you say that? Stop it.
I'm not going there with anybody again.
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Do you want me to go with you?
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Where?
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You think I've got nothing to ask for?
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No… You can't go there.
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Why not?
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No, no.
What if it wouldn't work with you, either?
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Stalker (1979) Final scene
https://youtu.be/FyFLUJ4kmXQ
You know, my mother was against it.
You've probably noticed already that he's not of this world.
All our neighborhood laughed at him. He was such a bungler, he looked so pitiful.
My mother used to say: "He's a stalker, he's doomed,
he's an eternal prisoner!
Don't you know what kind of children the stalkers have?"
And I... I didn't even argue with her. I knew it all myself,
that he was doomed, that he was an eternal prisoner,
and about the children.
Only what could I do? I was sure I would be happy with him.
Of course, I knew I'd have a lot of sorrow, too.
But it's better to have a bitter happiness than…a gray, dull life.
Perhaps, I thought it all up later. But then he approached me and said:
"Come with me." And I did, and never regretted it.
Never.
We had a lot of sorrow, a lot of fear, and a lot of shame. But I never regretted it,
and I never envied anyone. It's just our fate, our life,
that's how we are.
And if we haven't had our misfortunes, we wouldn't have been better off.
It would have been worse.
Because in that case, there wouldn't have been any happiness.
And there wouldn't have been any hope.
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I love your eyes,
my darling friend,
Their play, so passionate and bright'ning,
When a sudden stare up you send,
And like a heaven-blown lightning,
It'd take in all from end to end.
But there's more that I admire:
Your eyes when they're downcast In bursts of love-inspired fire,
And through the eyelash goes fast a somber, dull call of desire…
The End
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Bonus
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A look to the Film, and Tarkovsky's "Stalker".
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https://youtu.be/lhK7hMBli4s
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The cutscenes
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https://youtu.be/0CKcoM7r7AA
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The documentary
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Now go out and play.
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