The Zone is a gift to the soul of man

“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”

The very harm one may inflict upon the world always, in the end, comes back to bite them; I’m sure there’s many other philosophies in regard to the nature of man’s lifelong desire to find out who they truly are outside the exterior of the shells we inhabit I could examine here that Stalker seeks to raise and understand in its almost three-hour length of meditative long takes and existential musings, but to me, this idea represented is the most compelling and fascinating to me. The answer does not matter if of divine or extraterrestrial nature the origin of The Zone is. Wherever it came from, whoever designed and designated it to operate the way it does does not take away the supreme belief in me that The Zone is a gift to the soul of man. Not in its ability to allegedly grant one’s true unconscious wish, but in the spiritual development and enlightenment one trekking through The Zone and its traps may come to grasp, understand and harness to the point where the need to ask for that wish that led one to The Zone is no longer a desire of interest. Nothing more is the promise of the wish but bait to lure the unhappy into The Zone, so differentiate The Zone can between the unhappy as to who the true-hearted are and who the unjust are. If one cannot go through all that The Zone sends their way and not break free from the cognitive dissonance of all they’ve been led to believe in their life on the subjects of morality and being, then what hope for change and happiness outside The Zone will they in their lives ever find? Those who aim to abuse or exploit the nature of The Zone are punished; those who enter The Zone and treat its nature and its rules with only love, care and reverence are rewarded, not in materials, but in the rising of spirit and the disassociating from metaphysical disconnection with one’s own existential torments. In 2 hours and forty-minutes does Stalker contain a lifetimes worth of poetic philosophy to reflect on. It remains unbelievably rich, deep and thought-provoking in everything it aims to express, and the meditative cinematic experience of going on this journey with the Stalker, Writer and Professor is one of the all-time great interactive cinematic experiences, and heightened is the profundity of the Stalker experience all the more if into this film you go quite drowsy.