Nick made a bet with him to see who can win more souls. Nick represents desire, and Parnassos represents dream. In the end, Parnassos won and gained immortality. In fact, immortality is a punishment, and Nick lost deliberately. Parnassus realized this after meeting his favorite woman. He made another deal with Nick. He regained his youth and got love, but his child had to be given to Nick when he was 16 years old.
The current world is really bad and happy. The old birthday stars who are as powerful as Parnassos, speak English, have no power to bind a chicken, and are full of benevolence and morality, are only mixed on the streets and run a mobile theater. I wondered, how can no one save such historical and cultural heritage? It can be seen that British costume dramas are underdeveloped, otherwise it would be enough for the crew to serve as a trick.
The Parnassos we saw at the beginning of the film was a downcast image of a dwarf, a pair of young men (Anton and Valentina), all in a carriage. Nick came and told him that his daughter Valentina's birthday was three days away. If he wants his daughter to stay, he needs to make another bet with him, which is to see who can win 5 souls first.
At this time, Anton found Tony (Heath Ledger) who was hanging under the bridge, and they rescued him. This person is a liar who uses child welfare agencies to trap money and launder money for the underworld. However, generally speaking, such scammers have some personal charm, otherwise, others are not so easy to swindle. Valentina was like seeing Lin Pingzhi's Yue Lingshan, leaving her kind-hearted big brother An Dong aside. The next is that Tony enters the dreamland three times, incarnate as Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Corinfeld.
I don't want to continue to spoil it. I just want to say that this is not a simple Hollywood movie. Terri Gilliam, as the core of Britain's most famous Monty Python, will never make a major theme blockbuster. Nick seems to be the incarnation of the wicked in the film, but the more we look at it, the more we feel that desire is not necessarily evil. Dreams may also be opium. The existence of this world has both dreams and desires. It cannot be said to be noble.
In fact, Parnassos has always lost. What he wants is actually desire, whether it is immortality, love, or daughter. For desire, he can deal with the devil. And the devil didn't ask for anything from beginning to end. In fact, he wanted to make him understand that he had to compromise with desire just like everyone else. The world we live in is never just a fairyland without dust, it may be a trap for hiding dirt. We need the simplicity of dreams, but desires are everywhere. Sometimes, you can't tell what is dream and what is desire. For example, in Jude Law’s dream, the underworld chose the mother’s call instead of the police striptease. What do you think they chose?
Regarding Tony's fate, the devil said he deserved to die, but Parnassos saved him. Is this doing good or accumulating evil?
Although the film is not as sharp as "The Meaning of Life" in 1983, it still touches on some concepts that we think are distinct from black and white. If we want to extend, we can also say that Parnassos is a religion and Nick is a reality. Religions always claim to be a savior, but they are often entangled with real interests. Tony is a politician, so both sides want to play around. Terry even said that Tony's prototype was Tony Blair.
This year, fantasy-themed movies got together and were bombarded by the wonderland scenery of "Avatar" and "Lovely Bones", the dream of this film is still remarkable. Of course, the most important thing is Heath Ledger's last performance. Without the perverted perversion of the clown, it is still full of evil spirits. He left, I don't know whether he converted to dreams or desires, or just a choice to escape from life.
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