Tarkovsky and Landscape

A landscape is a spectacle, perceived and interpreted by the human eye. 

A landscape is a space with a frame around it, planted like a garden full of meaning.

This review contains some very quotable quotes on landscape, two of which are included above. It is about the Russian film 'Stalker', directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Space is political, in the real world. People fight over territory at every level: Neighbors bicker over the property line, while borders define the shape of every nation and pin their identity to the map. 
The Zone of Stalker takes place right on the line that divides here from there. 
It is overgrown the same way that the Demilitarized Zone is overgrown, that strip of land between North and South Korea that is like a geographic scar. 
It is abandoned the way that the area around Chernobyl is abandoned.

I re-watched Stalker earlier in the month, for the first time in quite a few years. It's an excellent movie.