This is an absolute masterclass of a film that took a long time for me to gather my thoughts and write a review. Since I started critiquing films, I have seen this movie three separate times and only now am I finally writing about it. And this is for good reason; Stalker is one of the oddest films ever made. This meandering and almost nonlinear story is accompanied by eerie sound design, strange poetry-spewing characters, and long pauses without any dialouge or plot at all. However, this strangeness is obviously intentional and it makes this one of the most intriguing movies ever. There's so much to see and talk about when it comes to this film. I love thinking about the overlapping and widely varying themes of religion, God, humanity, consciousness, desire and more. The visuals are obviously top notch and make the movie a joy to simply sit back and enjoy. The dialouge and general content of the majority of the slower portions of the film are definitely confusing, especially for someone who doesn't know a single word of Russian, but the poetic undertones and meanings behind the words are not completely lost on me, and the philosophical dialouge is quite fun to listen to. I love the pure aesthetic style that permeates throughout this entire film. I know that I will never fully understand the film, and I also know that's kind of the point.