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"Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky: Modernity and The Sickness Unto Death

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Exploring Tarkovsky's Engagement with Nietzsche and Modernity's Spiritual Crisis

This chapter delves into the thematic and cinematographic similarities between Tarkovsky and Kubrick, while also discussing the hubris of Silicon Valley engineers in playing god through technology and the profound philosophical reflections on nihilism and the human quest for transcendence.

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