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The End of Ode to Joy

There's lots of like very literal carry-throughs from his films in shot. Ode to Joy which actually this isn't even the only time that we have Ode toJoy in a Tarkovsky film. We've got it in nostalgia as well. In case you think we're being accessible on the Christian front I mean there's like several biblical quotes. There's also... There's a whole load of stuff which is just like brought up and then never dealt with. It feels like it's like some sort of appendix of a story that was belonged somewhere else and all of the rest of it has been cut away.

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