Stalker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BwUuZp0XA

Previous Friday I've been watching Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker (1979).
"It describes the journey of three men travelling through a post-apocalyptic wilderness called the Zone to find a room with the potential to fulfil one's innermost desires. The title role is played by Alexander Kaidanovsky, who guides two others through the area, the Writer, played by Anatoly Solonitsyn, and the Professor, played by Nikolai Grinko. Alisa Freindlich played the Stalker's wife.
The film is loosely based on the novel Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. An early draft of the screenplay was also published as a novel Stalker that differs much from the finished film. In Roadside Picnic, the Zone is full of strange artefacts and phenomena that defy known science. A vestige of this idea carries over to the film, in the form of Stalker's habit of throwing metal nuts down a path before walking along it. The characters in Roadside Picnic do something similar when they suspect they are near gravitational anomalies that could crush them."
I thought the whole film was amazing, although very physologicaly strong. The use of poems in dialog enriched the whole story, fulfilled concept behind it. Although I had to stay very concentrated and focused on dialog to understand it because it was very easy to loose the clues what they're talking about if you miss a few lines.
The whole set was just amazing- no special effects, just natural light in a dark space can create something just unbelievably beautiful. Dump, darkness, water drops, mist- just a simple things and such an amazing effect. I liked that there wasnt any sound tracks or so, just a natural ordinary sounds. When its dark and you cant see, your hearing senses is getting stronger. I think thats why its so unique listening to just those simple sounds and realising how beautiful they can be.
Another thing that I realised and while discussing about film in class- that director makes such an uncomfortable things looking so simple and comfortable to watch, or at least makes you believe that its comfortable, like person just sleeping in a bog, talking about life like there wouldnt be anything.