"Should we tell them this thing will soon melt into nothingness?" our protagonist asks.
"There is no way to tell, there is no word for ice in their language."
Second, in the legend of the Shivaro people, the white god and the white artifact will descend in the future to guide them to a place without grief and death. While Fitzcarrador was standing on the deck of the ship, playing an opera in the rainforest, the natives met their Chosen Son. He told them that the artifact needed to cross the mountain, and it happened.
3. However, the clansmen could not tell the second half of the Fitzcalador legend: when they dragged the white artifact across the mountains, they would cut the rope and let it pass through the rapids to calm the ghosts in the still water. Colonial whites were terrified of the brain-sucking myths of barbarians, and had no time for the ancient gods and mystical legends of the natives. So our protagonist walked back and forth on the Amazon River and found nothing. Like a thank you, you gave us a dream, and I gave you a dream back. Two dreams, the same nothingness.
4. At the end of the film, Fitzcarado tells a story: When North America was not conquered, a French hunter discovered Niagara Falls west of Montreal. After returning, he told people that the waterfall was beyond imagination. But people didn't believe it, thinking he was either crazy or lying. What evidence do you have, people ask him. He said, my proof is that I saw it.
5. In Homer's epic, Sisyphus was cast into hell and punished to roll the boulder to the top of the mountain every day, and then watch it roll back to the ground. His life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless labor. Until one day, Sisyphus contemplates a series of life actions that are not directly related but closely linked to his own destiny, and finds that it is he who has created his own destiny. He was so engrossed in this happiness that he felt no more suffering. So he became harder than the boulder he pushed.
6. Camus said that striving for heights in itself is enough to fill a person's heart. Sisyphus, our protagonist, Fitzcarrador, has finally found his own kind of happiness.
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