Just Video's 2.0

[mkers]

Stalker (1979) short analysis - no spoilers
https://youtu.be/vfxmXYcvnHw

The info about early nuclear disasters was enlightning.

I don't believe the film is just a dream. Take the train journey scene for example - I think it felt like this was to emphasize the cross over from normal to the zone, giving us time to maybe feel how they feel as they move towards it.

Dream like states whilst in the zone but not wholly in a dream.

My 2p 

[Ernesto ep5]

Yeah same here. And the ending of the game is mostly you hallucinating that shit.
The bad ending for example where the building just caves in.