This will be my third time seeing the film, and I am heartily glad to find it on the Criterion Collection this month after a few teases in that direction in the past — few films I’ve ever seen have seemed more specifically connected to Criterion’s overall mission — but I don’t find myself any closer to professing any kind of unified understanding of Tarkovsky’s greatest work. I got lost in it again. I’ll get lost in it next time too, I’m sure. I’m beginning to think getting lost in Stalker is nearer and nearer the fulcrum of its point.
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