'You don't think three men could destroy this place? They could.'
Three men enter into a forbidden world, sneaking back into a Eden that's learnt how to live without them. It is strange, rich, transcendent...but they all want something from it.
There is the Writer who wants inspiration. There is the Scientist who wants knowledge. And there is the Stalker who wants love.
The long slow takes of Tarkovsky take us into a world already there yet rarely explored. Ourselves.
Mesmeric, hypnotic we go through trying to find the Wish Grantor experiencing life fully with it's terrors and beauties and wonders.
In the Zone, filmed near Chernobyl and limited the life of the director and his crew, is something that cannot be explained or captured or destroyed. A mystery from an older world.
