The mood after watching this is similar to watching "Youth and Vigorous" before, it is very calm and very shocking.
Starting from the male protagonist's dream of his younger brother who died early, he recalled his mother who couldn't get rid of the pain of losing a child in middle age and his childhood growth experience.
Terrence believes in Christianity and is an existentialist. He presents various images in life and higher-dimensional mysterious power in the way of stream of consciousness. There was light in the dark red chaos, which should be the picture of the fetus about to be born and leave the womb. The brilliance of driving through the block probably symbolizes people's sense of loss in society. A mother who has lost her child is constantly asking God where her hope is for her child.
What follows is a 17-minute long, macroscopic vision of nature and the universe. In this part, I was completely shocked, and my heart and eyes returned to the original with the picture. From cells to blood to lava to the surface of the sun, from the crust to the surface, from clouds to nebulae, from glaciers and caves to ocean forests, fish and birds fly. Only then did I realize that there are still countless kinds of life with human beings, and they are so fresh. They are even more dynamic than humans in a sense. (Seeing the process of evolution from cells to the surface of the sun, I felt the surprise of the same frequency resonance. This is exactly the question I have been pondering: maybe the human body is also a planet, a universe, and the planet and the universe are also a body... I There are too many thoughts on this issue to go into detail.)
The camera travels back to the Jurassic era, and dinosaurs appear in the picture. They are different from the ruthless beasts in previous sci-fi films. Here they are living beings with the same emotions and perceptions as humans, and the same sentient beings.
Thus, the shock of being attracted by the beauty of nature now becomes the infinite fear of being shocked by the nature that has not decayed for hundreds of millions of years. We are so small, yet arrogant, obsessed with humanism, blindly elevating and promoting human values, but ignoring everything that is most authentic. We are consumers, endlessly demanding and plundering from nature, keen on urban life, modern technology, and taking nature's gifts and graces as the trophies that advanced animals deserve. Looking back at the mythical story of Pangu opening the world, Pangu's torso eventually became the earth, his limbs became the four directions of east, west, north and south, his eyes were the sun and the moon, his blood was rivers, sweat and dew... and human beings were transformed from fleas on his body. . People really act like fleas on the earth, trying to conquer the world and even dominate the universe, without any reverence.
The camera is zoomed out of the Earth. The sun, the nebula, and even the entire infinite universe, the aesthetic illusion of Genesis is on the fourteen-inch screen in front of you. Once again, I feel that humans are as insignificant as ants. At this time, the call of the male protagonist's mother full of compassion echoed in the universe, and in the high-dimensional space, he felt the power of people and the traction of the mind again.
In his childhood memories, the boy developed a rebellious mentality under the suppression of his father's discipline, witnessed the unexpected death of his friends and family accidents, experienced the unspeakable sprouting of adolescence, swayed in the embrace of nature and compassion, and swayed in impulse. Grow comprehension in adventure and introspective restraint. Finally, I left the house that carried the family and friendship in my childhood.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist stepped into the narrow door in the high-dimensional spiritual consciousness, and followed his childhood self to the end of his life. A conservative and bossy father, a gentle and innocent mother, a brother who was close but died young, and childhood friends are all there waiting for him.
Life has no end, compassion is the source of true love.
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