A religious fable. A total of three reincarnations before and after, three worlds. The first was in 1949, Reuben, on a school trip. " If you cause an accident, the same thing will happen to you ." As Buddhism says (in fact, Christianity, and other religions all say the same), people eat sheep, sheep die, and people die. Sheep, in this way, even in ten lives, life and death, come and go to eat each other, evil karma is born, and the future is poor . The Bible says that anyone who kills with the sword will be killed by the sword . This is cause and effect.
Reuben, the first generation, drifted (wandering) at sea for thirty-five years, which implies that a person's life is also wandering and drifting from birth to death, which is meaningless. Just thinking about it makes life full of tragedy and even fear. However, the boatman showed Ruben a way out, and said that he had wasted thirty-five years. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha wandered in the Dead Sea in countless reincarnations in the past countless years. He has become a cultivator, he has become a heavenly person, and even because of bad karma, he has fallen into the animal realm and hell, and has been reincarnated hundreds of thousands of times, with no way out. This story implies that a guide is also a lost person before giving directions to future generations.
Reuben of the second life, because of the accident of the past life, triggered the second reincarnation of thirty-five years. The last time was by sea (the last time was by train), this time it was by road, the last time Juan died, this time it was a little girl. The past and the present, because of karma (or something similar), are strikingly similar.
This time he is the guide, and the new lost is Daniel (the ten-year-old boy). Before his death, the guide recalled that he was Reuben in the past, and he warned Daniel not to get into the police car. This is another hint that if Daniel gets into the police car, another cycle will begin. But Daniel ended up doing it anyway. Here, the police car represents another reincarnation, a choice, and the "cause" of falling into reincarnation.
Sure enough, Daniel's next life became a police officer (or a private detective?), opening the third reincarnation. Because of an accident, which was symbolized by the explosion, he fell into the cycle again, which is the stair cycle.
At the last moment of his life, he suddenly remembered himself in the previous life, someone had entrusted him, and then he entrusted the same words to the later person, namely Oliver (the flustered younger brother). This time, he was pointing the way, and the lost one was Oliver. He warned Oliver not to enter the elevator, but the latter also did not hold back the temptation, and finally walked into the elevator, put on the waiter costume, and started the next cycle of life.
Time and time again, the whole cycle is filled with pessimism, and there seems to be no hope of ever getting out.
Daniel's family has a stepfather, a mother and a younger sister. Life is trivial, happy and quarrelsome. In Oliver's life, he lived with his brother, and there was brotherhood. But in the second half of their lives, it was full of gloom and ugliness, which made people feel full of negative emotions. Our life is similar, the first half of childhood and adolescence are happy and innocent. The second half of life was muddled and caught in a vicious circle. Reuben of the Second World became a walking corpse who only knew how to eat and drink Lazarus, and Daniel of the Second World also became a walking corpse who only knew how to eat and drink Lazarus. Looking at the reality, how many people do not live in such a state of life? This life is lost.
Here is another religious metaphor. Because of the blessings from the previous life (Reuben's study, the life of Daniel ascetic monk), the future life can live carefree and enjoy the blessings. In Daniel's world, it's the gas station, and in Oliver's world, it's the vending machine. These two things are supplied in an infinite cycle, and represent the blessings from past lives.
But it is conceivable that because of this kind of "blessing", the two of them are willing to degenerate, living a life of eating and drinking walking dead every day, and finally living an extremely ugly life. According to the point of view of reincarnation, this kind of enjoyment made them fall into an even more irreversible reincarnation.
In the end, the core of the whole film, and arguably the only thing that is not so hopeless in the whole film, lies in the dying realization of the two fallen guides: our gray life is unreal. is a specular projection. Our true beings have always lived in joy. We live in this world, from birth to death, to experience, to gain some kind of energy from life. This energy, in Christian terms, is "heavenly life" and "spiritual life" (rather than physical life), in Buddhist terms it is the seed of Bodhi, and it is also the Dharmakaya Buddha of Tantra. In Taoist terms, it is gold. body. When people live meaningfully and do good things, this real thing grows, otherwise it wilts and perishes. And the only meaning of life in this world is to let this "spiritual life" continue to grow, and strive to cultivate her wholeheartedly, rather than let it languish and die.
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