Getting older means progress?

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2013)

I saw this the first time as 11-yo during re-run in 1978. Didn't get it, obviously, already having experienced much more entertaining cinematic wonders like "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Then I saw it again on video in mid 80's making not that much more impression, while of course the message was somewhat understood. And then again and again from a video or television broadcasts, before finally began to really like the picture for its merits. But what truly did it for me: my home theater! What an awesome, exhilarating movie in the form AT LEAST the way it should be: 2 x 1 meters on your own wall. (With adequate sound systems naturally.) And as I mentioned before, I had grown at least technically.
Progressed as far as my species go? Very hard to tell. But how many bothers to seek any re-evaluation?