The whole film probably tells the story of a 70-year-old Dominic who is constantly rejuvenated after being electrocuted. It is precisely because of this electric shock that Dominic split into two personalities. It is also that he possesses knowledge that humans cannot know and powers that humans cannot fully understand.
Let's start with the movie. Turning constantly, a skeleton face appeared. The clock represents the passage of time and the intertwining of time and space tunnels, and the skeleton represents death, but death is not the end of life, but the beginning of another life. As the German philosopher Nietzsche said: "How can you be reborn if you don't first burn to ashes?"
The whole film has a time node, which is 1938. From Dominic's point of view, he was 70 years old at that time, so it is presumed that he was born in 1868 and can be seen in the film in 1894 with his girlfriend Lola. At the time he was a student studying the origin of language. Thinking you're 25 years old and doing nothing, there aren't any meaningful research findings. At this time, his girlfriend Laura also proposed to break up because Dominic had studied linguistics for a long time and did not accompany her. The later life is not described in detail. It is probably the origin of language that has been studied for a lifetime.
It was at this very moment that he suffered an electric shock, which miraculously brought him back to life.
In the spring of 1938, it was Germany under the righteous Hitler, and World War II was about to begin. Dominic's life has also undergone great changes at this moment, allowing his life to start anew, his body continues to grow stronger and rejuvenate at an amazing speed. His body returned to the prime of life, presumably around 40 years old. From then on he opened his new life experience and lived until 1968. So it can be seen that he actually lived 100 years.
After rebirth, he has a dual personality and even some super powers, such as the ability to study linguistics in dreams and so on.
On a rainy day he met his young girlfriend, but the girl was no longer called Laura, but Veronica. This is probably the reincarnated Laura. The reincarnated Laura was in an accident on the winding mountain road. When Dominic went to rescue her, she spoke some language that no one could understand. This is an ancient Indian language called Sanskrit. And said her name was Rupini, and she had been meditating in the cave for months. After Dominic's investigation, it was found that this person did exist, and she was the daughter of one of the first families who believed in Buddhism. She was under the tutelage of the philosopher Yue Said, and she was in the cave to copy the teacher's works. (This can be seen as the time and space of the heroine)
When Dominica communicated with Rupini who traveled through time and space, Rupini kept speaking some ancient and strange languages, getting closer and closer to the era of human "tooth" language, which made Dominica's research on the origin of language. Continuous improvement. But Rupini's crossing has constantly affected Veronica's body, causing Veronica's body to age rapidly, making her 25 years old look like a woman in her forties and fifties. Dominic can't bear to see his beloved getting closer to death, so the only thing he can do is to leave her, because without Dominic's presence, Veronica can return to normal. It can be seen that in the life of his rebirth, between love and career, he chose love.
I think what the director of this film probably wanted to express is, if one's life could be repeated, what would you choose?
At the end of the film, Dominic travels back to 1938, when the 70-year-old is meeting friends in a cafe, chatting and laughing. He treats everything he has experienced as a dream, but is he now in a dream or out of a dream? This is also in response to the noon "only Tao" written in the title. "Tao" is proposed by Lao Tzu. He believes that Tao is the origin of all things. What I understand means: "Tao" is a cycle that repeats itself. "Tao" leaves from the starting point, and when it reaches a certain limit, it will return naturally, so the starting point is the end point, and the cycle goes back and forth, forming a circle. (For example: spring, summer, autumn and winter, south-east, north-west)
Going back to this film, I think what this film wants to express to a certain extent is that life has no end, and what you think of as the end is the beginning of another beginning.
Another point in the film is the contrast between reality and fantasy. There is no absolute reality, and there is no absolute fantasy. The reality you think you are living in may also be that your dreams are too real.
In fact, this makes me think that the world we live in now, that is, the three-dimensional space, is the position we reach through continuous exploration on the basis of one-dimensional space and two-dimensional space. Yet there are higher four-dimensional spaces. Then the four-dimensional space may be that we treat everything now as a dream. In the four-dimensional space, there is no concept of time and space. Human beings are separated from the body and the soul can be immortalized.
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