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Feb 21, 2006 17:26:53 GMT -5
Post by MaKS on Feb 21, 2006 17:26:53 GMT -5
Bravo, Malishas, you have enriched this extraordinary board with inevitable turn-a-side into biology. Bravo, Malishas! but why biology? literature, it seems. Five years before "Roadside Picnic" Strugatskie wrote "The Snail on the Slope"*, with epigraph by old japan poet Issa: Little snail inch by inch, climb Mount Fuji!Now we can wonder, either Tarkovskiy referred to the Strugatskie's story, or to the famous old haiku... both seem possible. o.o * "The Snail on the Slope" have its Zone (jungle-like Forest) and "normal world" (the Department). Perec, a scientist, tries to get into the Forest; Candid, a common man, tries to get out. Both oppose locals (bureaucracy/weird mind-controlling feminist cult), both fail.
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Feb 21, 2006 17:29:46 GMT -5
Post by MaKS on Feb 21, 2006 17:29:46 GMT -5
46 and counting... now words fail me!
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blue
Trespasser
The Snail
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Feb 26, 2006 9:15:26 GMT -5
Post by blue on Feb 26, 2006 9:15:26 GMT -5
"Beautiful concept."
It so happened that our dear administrator inadvertently erased the text in my post when making a quotation from it. Since I don’t like repeating myself I’m going to say almost the same with new words.
What I want to say is that I hope that our friend Malishas will continue to share his deep knowledge of The Zone and its stalkers with us. He has done a hell of a lot to make this site alive and interesting!
Then I’d like to emphasise that a films value isn’t only in how many times we find enjoyment in watching it but even more in how strong impression it makes on us and what effect it has in our life. I for example have for entertainment watched the Bond film “From Russia with Love” about the same number of times as I have watched Stalker. But has it made any impression on me? Not much in comparison.
Be well
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Mar 11, 2006 18:40:52 GMT -5
Post by MaKS on Mar 11, 2006 18:40:52 GMT -5
by the way, have you noticed what Freindlich reads in the moment the snail appears? She chuckles, then continues from Revelation: "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men..." (6:15, King James) It makes me wonder if it was intended. o.o
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