The most objective evaluation I can give is that this is a well-crafted fantasy love story, but it's really not too far from sci-fi, breakthrough, and brain challenge. The director's so-called discussion of the results of n nights with former NYU neuroscience researchers on Manhattan Avenue is a little bit of "science fiction" about how to treat brain tumors. This is really not technical at all: they experimented with monkeys, and a compound extracted from a tree found in a jungle in Guatemala was found to bind to nerve cell receptors and promote nerve cell growth. and inhibit the growth of brain tumors. If this can be considered science fiction, I will go to the African desert tomorrow to find a bug to cure AIDS.
I guess that if some Westerners have high evaluations, it may be because of the oriental or Mayan elements added to it (Aren't the Mayans also said to be descendants of merchants anyway, hehe). The film emphasizes a concept that death is life, which is very old-fashioned to us, but may be very new to them, and the process of the protagonist's enlightenment is very Zen.
In fact, the technical content of science fiction is not the most important thing. The important thing is that I was expecting a complex system full of logical problems, but I didn't see the logic, only the mystery of selling (Maya culture), simple characters, and face Incitement to come. I couldn't help but go home and look up the matrix again to comfort my hurt heart. The correspondence and connection between the so-called three parallel stories are almost obvious. One is the Spanish period, who went to China and the United States to find the tree of life, the other is modern, and the extract from the tree from China and the United States was used to treat brain tumors. It's the future, ascending to the middle of the universe with the tree of life, first to die, then to be equipped with props such as rings, it's really difficult to understand. Could it be that the quality of the translated subtitles is too poor?
This is all my thoughts and warnings: don't expect too much, just read it as a popular novel, maybe you will be moved, I cried while watching such a vulgar movie on a transoceanic plane... …
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