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Faith at the threshold in Stalker
Three men cross a forbidden wasteland to a room that grants your deepest wish, and none of them goes in. Tarkovsky’s parable of faith, despair and the leap no one takes.
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Three men chase the same tree across the centuries. Aronofsky’s answer to the oldest story we tell is that death is how life continues.
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