The movie begins with the Bible, which points to a very religious film. God created the universe, created all things, you and I live from this, and God is the father of mankind. The family represented by the film on the microscopic side can be said to be a metaphor for the relationship between God (father) and son (human beings). Why are there three sons in it? Because Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, gave birth to three sons: Cain, Abel, and Seth. These three sons are the beginning of true human beings from a biblical point of view, because Adam was created by God, and Eve was created from Adam's rib. Only Cain, Abel, and Seth were conceived from the true human mother. The eldest son, Cain, is especially important in the sense of human history.
In the movie, the father is a stern but loving person. Maybe he forced too much and punished too much. It was difficult for the young son to understand, and he had a deep estrangement and resentment towards his father. Father (God), you don't do good deeds, why should I be a good person? Cain is very much like his father. His father had the courage to steal the forbidden fruit, and Cain also had the courage to kill his brother. In the film, the mother is devastated by the death of her youngest son.
In the contemporary age when the eldest son has grown up, people have basically ignored the existence of God and been deceived by each other's greed. Is it because God has forgotten us? I really like a sentence my mother said in the movie: Love, or your life flashes away. The film's gentle and tolerant tone from beginning to end, and the subjective perspective like wind and water, make people jump out of the body to feel God, the universe, and how natural and insignificant all the joys and sorrows of life and death are. After all, the universe originated from the big bang, and the big bang always had an origin, and that was the greatest existence of God.
The earth always has an end, and life should always have an end, whether you like it or not. With the power of the vast and beautiful universe, God's hand can do whatever he wants to us. At the end of the movie, human beings are almost begging and calling to God: Keep us, guide us, to the end of time. Then comes the closing remarks, which I still think about to this day. It says Follow me, I give him to you. I give you my son. The archetype is of course from the life of the savior Jesus, but I don't know what this sentence means when human beings die today and another universe starts anew.
In addition, the copy of "2001 A Space Odyssey" at the end is too similar.
The tree of life, the source of life and the immortal god of youth in almost all ancient cultures and religions for thousands of years. Adam initially guarded the tree of life in the Garden of Eden by God's will, but he stole the fruit from it. Therefore, God drove mankind far away from the tree of life, so that we are still struggling to find the mystery of life.
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