![]() The next day we learned that we had gone to see Stalker on the night of the London riots. The post-apocalyptic scene was entirely of a piece with what we had just witnessed on screen, as if Tarkovsky’s film had simply spilled out into the world, taking us with it, sending us meandering towards the Zone. All of this should have felt strange, but it didn’t. He stood under a streetlamp picking at a vivid gash on his forearm, oblivious to the world around him. On our way home we saw only one person, a disheveled man with a beard. When we got out nearly three hours later it was night, and the streets of London seemed eerily deserted: storefronts were shuttered and garbage blew around on the wet sidewalks. I was in London the last time I saw Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker I went with my wife to a matinee at the British Film Institute. ![]() Entry into the Room can grant a visitor’s deepest wish. ![]() The Stalker is their guide in a place called the Zone, a forbidden place where an alien entity, having made contact with Earth, has left some trace of itself behind - in a mysterious building called the Room. ![]() ![]() Terrible things may happen to the Writer and the Professor if they stray from the path the Stalker has laid out for them. THREE MEN PICK THEIR way across a damp field. ![]()
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