The third space trip made me a little stunned. This space traveler reminded me of a sentence in the second chapter of the Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra: Prajna Paramita, which means the great greatness of Buddhism. Wisdom, guides all beings to transcend the realm of life and death. The space traveler's destination is a golden nebula, which the movie says is the place where people can be reborn after death in Mayan legends. But according to Mayan legend, the golden nebula referred to in the movie: Xibalba, is actually one of the layers of hell in Mayan culture. There are six houses in it, full of torture tools and methods of torture, and the meaning of rebirth. A little bit different. Leaving aside the true significance of Xibalba in Mayan culture, since Xibalba is said in the movie as a place where the dead can be reborn, let’s think so.
This space traveler can play tai chi, but he wants to maintain his eternal life from the bark of the tree of life, and try to extract substances from it to save his dead wife. Although the wife is dead, she is still mentally In the past, he was still in the state of trying to save his wife, but his wife kept telling him to finish her/it, which meant that he should stop insisting on saving her life, and stop using the tree of life to maintain life. , to face death quickly, and then to have eternal life, to be together forever. But the space traveler has always wanted to keep himself alive through the tree of life so that he can find his dead and reborn love in Xibalba. Finally, when his lover appears as the Queen of Spain, he slowly realizes that only through death can he lead to eternal life. So he began to climb the tree, left the tree of life, faced death peacefully and calmly, went straight to the Xibalba underworld, and in the process actually traveled back to the first stage of time and space and appeared when he faced the Mayan priest, making the priest mistakenly believe that It is death, bowing its neck and offering life. This part is too mysterious.
The ending just fits with the concept of life and death of the Yama culture, that is, death is the door to life, and life is the door to death. The reincarnation of life and death also exists in Buddhism, but it does not exist in Christianity and Catholicism in the West, so Westerners may find this film very mysterious. I think my understanding of this movie may disappoint the director, because he said that this movie is about love, but because he added the elements of Yama culture and immortality, it made my understanding out of focus. Besides, if this is really about love, I appreciate Woody Allen's style.
Overall, I still like this movie very much. It is full of suspense and will make people think all the time. It is a rare cult work recently.
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