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I've seen the Kino version twice now and part of a third time with my wife. What am I missing in the translation? Some of the words in the subtitles are obviously wrong. The voice over isn't that good either.
Monkey, doesn't the wife refer to him as a he? But Monkey is really a she. At least the headgear indicates that.
The film is difficult enough without adding a language roadblock. And then there is the partial quotations from the bible. Was this part of a game Tarkovsky was playing with Soviet authorities?
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...but Stalker is a special film for those who can appreciate it (for those who can't, I recommend trying again in 10 years).
Tarkovsky didn't make many films, but if you got anything out of Stalker you probably should take a look at: The Sacrifice, Andrei Rublev, and Solaris.
By the way, as bad as Stalker's subtitles are, I think Andrei Rublev's are even worse. I distinctly remember a few long lines of dialogue (some that were clearly multiple sentences) whose only subtitle was something like "Yes."
and hope you did, too.
Have you seen the films of Bela Tarr?
Since you appreciate Tark, you'd most probably like him.
And Sokurov....
Never heard of Bela Tarr, but I will do some research on him.
Stalker is worthwhile in some ways, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Solaris.
What is its main message? Mission not accomplished!
And where are the sympathetic characters? Stalker? The Scientist? Perhaps the writer? There is a change in them after their ordeal, but how do we really feel about them? Do we admire them? Do we pity them? The long suffering wife of the Stalker, is she to be admired or pitied or both?. The Stalker's child is perhaps the only one with a future. Can we relate to that?
Unquestionably, his masterwork is the very long (7 hours, or so), "Satantango."
Very few works can be compared to it but I'd put Fassbinder's, "Berlin Alexanderplatz," in that select company.
Before you venture into, "Satantango," though, I'd see Susan Sontag's favorite film of his, "Damnation."
For all of them, be prepared for a different world, a different take on film art. He will reward your "work."
I'd wholeheartedly agree with a critic who said that Tarr's films have a way of drawing in the viewer so that he feels like he's in the landscape, alongside the character.
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