Ruins of an industrial society are everywhere in the form of shipping containers, boats, and cars. The village is a land of apathy and misery, where it feels like every inhabitant has been struck down with depression. The most crucial difference between them is what they stand for. It is split into two worlds, opposed in many ways: the village and The Zone. The geography of Stalker is crucial to understanding how its world works, and what Tarkovsky is trying to say in the film. Maybe it was formed when a meteor struck, but no one who mentions that theory in the film seems very convinced of it. All we are told is that it’s adjacent to The Zone, a space that defies category and reason. We understand its decline through absence: of shops, schools, neighbourhoods, or any kind of happiness. It’s never explained what has caused this domestic apocalypse, this corrosive decay that blights the village that Andrei Tarkovsky visits with his camera.
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