The Sacrifice

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This is Andrei Tarkovsky's last film. He knew when he was making it that this would be his last, and this film more than any other is proof of what Tarkovsky said (a good film should not be entertaining). This film moves at a very slow pace, but this allows for a deep examination of the characters. The events in the film are not shown through special effects, or even any real visuals at all. Each event is instead talked about by the characters, thereby telling us what happened.The story invovles a man deciding to offer himself as a sacrifice ("The Sacrifice") in order to save humankind. Being that this is Tarkovsky's final film, it is deeply personal and at times painful to watch. The film is also very difficult to sit through at times. It runs at just under 2 1/2 hours and it'...