Tarkovsky's "Stalker" as a political allegory

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Music and Movies

 

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Dorothy F

 

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September 26, 2014

 

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Stalker's story is even more peculiar. An accident at the lab ruined all of the footage and the entire film had to be re-shot for less than a third of the original budget. The film's very existence is a miracle - in my opinion in more ways than one. The Stalker has been the subject of countless articles that equate it to a metaphor ? a modern day Jesus in a post-apocalyptic society...
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One cannot ignore the fact that the story by the Strugatsky brothers was inspired by the accident at a nuclear plant near Chelyabinsk. I, however, believe that the film is a lot more pointed than that. More than fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union it may be both irrelevant and irreverent, but upon watching the film I cannot help but seeing it as an allegory for the Soviet Union itself...
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