Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I dunno I might need to rewatch it, there's definitely something interesting here in terms of ideas but I mostly just enjoyed the atmosphere. I'm not gonna try to engage with the ideas except to say that the concept of the difference between subconscious and conscious desires is interesting, as is the Stalker's view of the zone as a thing of spiritual beauty when it is much more obvious a sort of cosmic horror. His final monologue when they get…
First time I got all the way through it. Usually I think that a movie being too long is a pretty obvious problem, but in this case I think it works. It's got all the elements of the other great Scorsese films that span decades, the level of depth and dedication to recreating the qualities of each time.
The part at the end where he gets old is maybe the best depiction of that in a movie I've seen. Usually…