From the beginning of love
from Spain in the sixteenth century to the mysterious technology developed today, to the unknown future, the time span of the film is very large. The three paragraphs intersect each other, but they are not very complicated. Aside from other details, what runs through them is actually just a touching love story.
Love is what drives the plot. Although the film is divided into three parts, two seemingly unrelated stories from the past and the present are linked together by a surreal future.
In the past: The Spanish warrior played by Hugh Jackman went through hardships to find the tree of life in order to win the queen's love. The tree of life is a divine tree that coexists with the tree of wisdom in the Garden of Eden. When Eve and Adam stole the tree of wisdom After the apple, God hid the tree in the world. Eventually, it becomes one with the tree of life.
Present life: Doctor Tom, who loves her wife deeply, but sacrifices time to accompany his wife to carry out various experiments in order to save his wife from brain cancer. Tom struggles with contradictions and also brings harm to his wife. The experiment has just improved, but his wife has already After passing away, the remorseful Tom is unwilling to lose his beloved wife like this, and is still looking for a good medicine - a medicine for resurrection.
The future: In the endless universe, the light and shadows fade away. Tom and the withered tree of life traveled through endless time, space and years, to the destination of the soul, the source of life-that is, the stardust that his wife and her watched together, the paradise of the legendary soul, hope to be able to save his wife. In the destination of the soul, the tree of life was resurrected, and Tom also ran to immortality together.
The main body of the story is the present world, and the other two stories are also continuations of this love story. In order to imply this continuation, the male protagonists of the three stories are played by Hugh Jackman, and the female protagonist is also Rachel. -Weitz. The key item, the ring, appears in all three stories. The love token ring given by the queen is eventually lost at the tree of life, and it was picked up by the future Tom. The real Tom lost it because he focused on research. To get the wedding ring, in pain he used a pen to poke a circle around the ring, until the future Tom stabbed his arms all over the years.
The description of love should be a very important part of the director's role in this film. The director even has a lot of sensationalism. The scene that keeps flashing back is the once healthy and beautiful wife. The pen pierces the skin to engrave the eternal marriage ring, and gently strokes the trunk of the tree. Like the skin of a wife. Yangtian shouted angrily, revealing his powerlessness to death. The deceased wife and the life that cannot be turned back are Tom's eternal pain and the main reason for the story.
To expand the life and death
if there is no eternal life, there will be no eternal love. In order to return to the happiness of the past, I searched for eternal life. The director borrowed the concept of the "tree of life" in religion. Point out that if you find the tree of life, you will have eternal life. The three stories are all driven by love, and the search for the tree of life begins.
Tom stubbornly believes that there is a way to live forever. In his eyes, death is just a disease, and there is still a way to cure it. Because of this persistence, he has been looking for the "tree of life", no matter the past or the present. Still in the future. Tom is not the only one who is obsessed with immortality. Emperor Qin and Han Wu are also obsessed with the technique of immortality, but no matter how they search for it, they will eventually turn into dust.
Compared with Tom, his dying wife is rare. The story of Spain is a story written by Tom's wife's novel, so we can completely abandon the concept of reincarnation and take the ancient story as reality. A fictional story in the novel, the idea in the story is exactly Tom's wife's view of life and death.
Tom's wife is obsessed with Mayan culture and believes that the ancestors created all living beings through death, and the paragraph in Spain finally ends with the explorer turning into a few flowers after drinking the sap from the tree of life.
From this, the main proposition of the movie is drawn, death is immortality, death is not the end, but immortality in another sense. We can think that the explorer is dead, or that his life has turned into the life of thousands of flowers, and the flowers have become the life of thousands of flowers. Another form of his life. The same goes for the death of Tom's wife. And the future Tom finally understood this truth, so he saw his wife again, maybe it was just a dream, but it was only the embodiment of this truth, or what he saw was just another image of a wife.
Religion, science fiction and various mystics
director individually mysticism of expression, but in the film, then added more mysterious elements.
The quotation from the Bible at the beginning of the film announces the beginning of the dream. It comes from the legend of the Maya, the oriental Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and the demonstration of the Tao of Heaven and the concept of the reincarnation of life by Tai Chi, which adds a mysterious color to the film. The "tree of life", the dagger of the Mayan totem, and the instructions of the astrology together constitute a mysterious force, adding more revelatory branches to this otherwise simple love movie. In order to bring out the thinking of many propositions such as eternal life, death, true love, etc.
The film shows the views on
the film can be seen as a new exploration of the science fiction movies, with coming up with mysticism to describe love, food for thought for life. The past is the expression of thoughts, and the future is the reflection. The plot of the past is reproduced with the plot of the novel written by Tom's wife, so even if that part is magical, it is only the plot of the novel, and it does not affect the realistic atmosphere of the real paragraph. And the future shows Tom's lost psychology. Tom, who lost his wife, needs more reasons to achieve self-redemption and dispel the resentment that he has always pursued for immortality. And the future is just the process of Tom's continuous thinking and enlightenment.
The purpose of this film is to be a philosophical film, which makes people feel too distracted, and even generates resistance. Although the film is not very deep, it is also philosophical, which will lead to some audiences who have nowhere to focus and seem to understand but not understand. Mood. But after understanding the director's intention, it will also bring his own deep thinking, and the resonance is also a kind of sublimation.
When immortality is a dream, death is another kind of immortality.
Stop writing here, I think this film gives people more insight into life and death, revealing the love in the world from the perspective of life and death. Hope you all like this video too.
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