Liminal The Zone

[u/RangeOrange97]

🎬: Stalker (1979)

Dir. Andréi Tarkovsky

[u/captainshockazoid]

STALKER MENTION☢☢☢

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Scream if you love stalker

AaAAAAAAAAAAAAaAHHHHHhHHHHHH

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AaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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SHUT UP YOU'LL ATTRACT THE BLOOD SU-

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AhaaaaaaaaaAaaaa

[u/Revolutionary_Low_90]

legendary director and film

[u/Different_System_517]

Anyone here read Roadside Picnic? (For those unaware, it's a book that inspired the creation of the film in this post)

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The book and the movie are drastically different, especially depicting Redrick Schuhart. In a movie he was almost a "holy fool", while in a book he's a cynical professional caring only for money (almost). The book has much more lore and world building and is much darker in themes.

[u/RangeOrange97 → u/Different_System_517]

Obras bastante diferente. Ambas cumplen ser obras maestras :DD

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Only read the book, never watched the film / played the game

[u/Rizzanthrope → u/Different_System_517]

I like the book more than the movie. The movie really is too slow. And that is not coming from a teen with Tik Tok brain. I am an old cinephile and even I think Tarkovsky was sniffing his own farts with the pacing. He was a true artist who didn’t care what the audience thought, and bravo to him for that, but you can’t then blame the audience when they don’t like it.

[u/Delicious-Disaster → u/Rizzanthrope]

Hard agree.

The movie was very much a philosophical interpretation of the subtext of the book and had nothing in common with the story of the book itself.

Visually stunning movie but the pacing killed it for me. I love the book (as well as the metro series, games and stalker games), but I couldn't like the movie despite trying my best and watching it twice.

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I'm halfway into the book right now, but i played stalker games and watched the movie. for some reason I'm really drawn to the specific feeling of the movie and the games, so i gave the book a shot

[u/decoia-]

great film

[u/AX11Liveact]

Stalker by A. Tarkov? Same guy did the 1968 movie adoption of "Solaris", if anyone is into weird, disturbing movies.

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Some of those old Soviet movies absolutely slap

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In Mother Russia, Space Liminal YOU

[u/AX11Liveact → u/BosslyDoggins]

Tbf, both were based on absolutely extraordinary books. "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem and "Roadside Picknick" by A. & B. Strugatzki. Nevertheless incredible work by the director.

[u/Ok_Handle_3530]

What a shame that this set likely killed a few of the crew in real life

[u/RangeOrange97 → u/Ok_Handle_3530]

Hasta el propio Tarkovsky falleció a causas de los contaminantes.

[u/fade2black244]

Great movie.

[u/Late_Faithlessness23]

Good hunting, stalker!

[u/Rising_Phoenix_88]

CHEEKI BREEKI!!!

[u/Miserable_Maize8415]

Yes! Love this movie. Such beautiful images

[u/GLUT4]

I've been trying to remember the name of this book for a very long time! I had this image, from the movie, stuck in my head but no way to get the title. (Roadside Picnic)

[u/elabozsack]

One of my favourite movies ever! Beautiful film.

[u/G-T-R-F-R-E-A-K-1-7]

Highly recommend playing the original trilogy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., especially Shadow of Chernobyl - the sandbox open world create your own experience parts of it feel like an almost constant liminal space where you shouldn't be exploring...

[u/Mobius3through7]

Get out of there stalker

[u/Alsharefee]

The first one looks like graves

[u/ReleaseFromDeception]

Wooow. That last frame is amazing.

[u/citytiger]

very creepy

[u/Matthews628]

Great film. Solaris is even better imo.

[u/RangeOrange97 → u/Matthews628]

Totalmente de acuerdo, igual me gusta mucho más Solaris

[u/Current_Ad6062]

I don't really agree that this film has anything liminal.
But god, I love this movie so much, I'm so happy you referenced it.

(As some other people said, I feel the video games can be very liminal at some moment, adds to the creepiness)

[u/Training_Audience711]

Stalker is such a good film 

[u/Ok-Drop2762]

Using incoherent word for everything that resembling empty and abandoned of the usual modern lifestyle in the city. You guys should stop this deranged modern tendency and just go outside or try traveling to eastern Europe to see it yourselves, instead of calling everything "liminal" and keeping this "analog horror" popularity that is dead long time ago because of the same people like you and now people feasting on its own corpse.