Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Stalker (1979 film)" in English language version.
Oh what can you understand, you funny man! And you are not the only stalker in the world! And not a stalker ever knows, with what those, whom they lead, come in here and with what they leave. And the number of unmotivated crimes is rising! Isn't it your work (goes around in the room)? And military coups and mafia in the governments – are they not your clients? And lasers, and all these supreme bacteria, all that repulsive filth, until the right moment hidden in safes?
It's kind of a joint influence with Mad Max, Fallout, and the Soviet science fiction books by the Strugatsky brothers, who wrote Roadside Picnic.
Pacific Drive is inspired by the Strugatsky brothers' novel Roadside Picnic, Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker, and Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
Someone on Tumblr once wrote that I, as an author, "do not get" the essence of the Zone in Roadside Picnic and Stalker. Which is very funny to hear from a foreigner, who, by definition, cannot grasp the themes of these works in their entirety
Someone on Tumblr once wrote that I, as an author, "do not get" the essence of the Zone in Roadside Picnic and Stalker. Which is very funny to hear from a foreigner, who, by definition, cannot grasp the themes of these works in their entirety
