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If you have some time, watch "Stalker". It's pretty amazing this twisted-reality dreamlike film was made in 1979. It feels right out of 2010.

danielodievich 5y ago
And The Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky brothers is an incredible read. The movie is loosely-ish based on that but both stand on their own. The book is tightly written and profound in its exploration of human condition when facing pressure of money and exploitation of something we don't understand.
- andrei_says_ 5y ago
  What is a good translation?
  - danielodievich 5y ago
    I read Russian natively but wife does not and she was satisfied by the Bormashenko work. see https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4s4bv7/is_there_a_better_roadside_picnic_translation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4s4bv7/is_there_a_be...
- euroderf 5y ago
  When I try to describe the book to someone, I start with the containers that have ends but no sides. That piques a person's interest.
jamesakirk 5y ago
If you are a fan, I strongly recommend Weird Studies' 2-part episode on Stalker. Phil and JF generalize the concept of "the zone" and discuss other examples of zones in art.
- SavantIdiot 5y ago
  Never heard of that, thanks for the recommendation!
marttt 5y ago
The central parts involving the Zone were filmed in and around Tallinn, Estonia [1, 2]. EDIT: Ugh, looks like some people may have died because of the lengthy filming sessions near a chemical plant. Wikipedia quotes one of the crew members [3]: "We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris." 1: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-locations https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-loc... 2: https://dobraszczyk.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/tallinntarkovsky-and-stalker/ https://dobraszczyk.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/tallinntarkovsk... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Production

danielodievich 5y ago

And The Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky brothers is an incredible read. The movie is loosely-ish based on that but both stand on their own. The book is tightly written and profound in its exploration of human condition when facing pressure of money and exploitation of something we don't understand.

andrei_says_ 5y ago
What is a good translation?
- danielodievich 5y ago
  I read Russian natively but wife does not and she was satisfied by the Bormashenko work. see https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4s4bv7/is_there_a_better_roadside_picnic_translation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4s4bv7/is_there_a_be...
euroderf 5y ago
When I try to describe the book to someone, I start with the containers that have ends but no sides. That piques a person's interest.

jamesakirk 5y ago

If you are a fan, I strongly recommend Weird Studies' 2-part episode on Stalker. Phil and JF generalize the concept of "the zone" and discuss other examples of zones in art.

SavantIdiot 5y ago
Never heard of that, thanks for the recommendation!

marttt 5y ago

The central parts involving the Zone were filmed in and around Tallinn, Estonia [1, 2]. EDIT: Ugh, looks like some people may have died because of the lengthy filming sessions near a chemical plant. Wikipedia quotes one of the crew members [3]: "We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris." 1: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-locations https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-loc... 2: https://dobraszczyk.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/tallinntarkovsky-and-stalker/ https://dobraszczyk.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/tallinntarkovsk... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Production