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Title: Simply one of the best films ever.
Review: The movie is long, slow, and is always pushing you someplace, only you find out that when you get there it's not where you thought you would end up. But I keep coming back to the sadness. It's not the type of downer sadness that pushes those buttons that films find so alluring, but rather it deals with death in a way that gives meaning to death. Not in the usual way of "rebirth" or even alluding to God and a new existence (another form of "rebirth", anyway) but rather absolute and final ENDING which has a beautiful closure and brings nobility to fatalism. I wasn't crying for the loss of things, but rather for the acknowledgement of truth. That being that even though life is a futile attempt at happiness, and is in a constant state of decay and entropy, when all is said and done maybe there is hope that even though things are not eternal, at least beauty and meaning can be experienced while life is still present.
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