Spanish part is Izze's novel, where the knight represents Izzi's husband, setting off to find the tree of immortality. The "real" male and female protagonists are real people. After izzi died, the male protagonist invented anti-aging drugs, and then there was the part of flying to the nebula.
The tree is the ship's self-sustaining circulatory device, no doubt about it. But the tree in the spaceship looks a lot like izzi incarnate. The scenes are very similar, such as the hair on the bark, which is quite similar to the hair on the female protagonist's head and neck, and the male protagonist has been whispering to it, dont worry, almost there. Of course, these details are different.
Nebula is a symbol of life/underworld. The male protagonist finally wakes up and understands that his obsession with eternal life is the reason for preventing the reunion of love, so in three stories, the ending has changed: In order to get eternal life, the Spanish knight lost his life. The ring (love?), implies that it is impossible to live forever to obtain eternal love; the doctor chose to accompany izzi to spend the last time, instead of losing the ring to treat the monkey, thus giving up the male protagonist who pursues eternal life, Accepted the death of the heroine, and finally planted a seed in the grave, indirectly continuing the heroine's life; the hero who flew to the nebula finally took out the ring (this is a bit symbolic, on imdb, someone said It's because the male protagonist has changed the past, so the ring appears, it feels a bit crap), and dying in the nebula symbolizes the reunion with the female protagonist.
But here I have a question, why did the male lead fly to the m78 nebula?
This movie needs to be watched several times, but it does not need to be fully understood. The theme conveyed is actually very simple: clinging to ghosts, letting go of Buddhas.
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