The full title is Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room. The film in question is Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, one of my all-time favorites. The book basically describes the film and the author's interpretation/reaction to it. Here's how it starts:
If you're not a Stalker fanatic, skip Zona. If you've never seen Stalker, remedy that as soon as possible.
An empty bar, possibly not even open, with a single table, no bigger than a small round table, but higher, the sort you lean against--there are no stools--while you stand and drink. If floorboards could speak these look like they could tell a tale or two. ... It's the kind of bar men meet in prior to a bank job that is destined to go horribly wrong.I enjoyed the book because I love the film and appreciate the thoughts of a fellow admirer. Dyer captures the richness and ambiguity of Stalker well. His interpretation of the events is similar enough to mine that I trust his judgement, but different enough to give me new twists to consider.
If you're not a Stalker fanatic, skip Zona. If you've never seen Stalker, remedy that as soon as possible.
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