How to understand this film?
It can be imagined that this black stone grass is a connection point of multiple parallel worlds, which can make those people in parallel worlds who could not meet to meet here. The 6 people in the film stray into the grass and attract each other from different worlds to enter each other, so as to meet each other. An unstoppable cycle was created, and they kept entering and dying. So how to break this cycle? After all, there is a "Redeemer's Blackstone Church" on the edge of the grass that has a meaning.
According to the setting of the plot, normal people cannot get out of the grass. Only the person who touches the stone can see the way out, but this person himself will be trapped here. The reason why he can't get out is because the person who touched the stone People who can see their various lives in various parallel universes have already crossed the dimension of time, are no longer normal human beings, and cannot go out. (Once such a person goes out, he is a prophet-like existence, so he must stay in the closed space of the grass, so as not to disturb the real world outside) However, he can choose to let those normal people who have not touched the stone go out from the "hole" , from the church back to the real world.
The key to breaking this cycle is a redemptive heart. What is redemption is repentance and salvation, repentance of one's words, deeds and thoughts, and salvation of one's fallen soul.
And one of these 6 people had a heart of redemption in a certain cycle, and this cycle was terminated, and the one who was redeemed was not Tobin, the child who walked out of the church, but Travis who was trapped in the grass: In a certain cycle Travis touched the black stone and rescued Tobin to prevent people outside from entering the grass, thus saving his girlfriend Becky and his child in a parallel world (and this child was exactly what Travis was unwilling to accept before, and it was not worth it performance of responsibility). Although Travis is forever trapped in the black stone grass, his spirit has been redeemed. At the same time, Becky, who has been rescued in this world, will also meet Travis, who has a repentant heart in her world at the destination where he originally wanted to send his child. This Travis You won't stray into the grass on your way to looking for a girlfriend because you can't wait. Travis trapped in the grass will also prevent the Tobins from entering, thus ending the cycle.
So how does Travis in the grass stop the rest of the world from restarting the cycle after he dies? I think this may be the origin of the frescoes on the black stone. Travis engraved the main events in this cycle on the stone before he died: childbirth, killing of children, as long as someone in a later cycle mistakenly thought it was the work of some Holy Spirit If you follow the instructions, you can inspire yourself to fight to the death, and you can break the cycle again. ——But thinking about it carefully, this cycle has not really broken, it just widened the interval of the cycle, and only when Travis accepted the child at the beginning, his girlfriend would not take this path of giving away children, and could truly prevent the cycle from happening.
In fact, it wasn't just these six people who strayed into the black stone grass. There were many abandoned vehicles outside the church, and thousands of souls struggling under the black stone all explained the long history of the grass and countless trapped souls who could not find the way to redemption. The "Blackstone Church of the Redeemer" is the tombstone of those who have the heart of redemption but can't get out of the grass.
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