Death Is The Road To Awe

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Incoherent? How so?

A lot of people don't like the handling or presentation of the 3 "storylines".

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My interpretation is that the film is about Dr. Hugh Jackman trying to find a cure for his wife's illness. As we see, he neglects his wife and spends all his energy searching for a cure or a "fix" so she won't die. Even after she is at peace with death he completely fails to understand. The Conquistador angle is his wife's book she was writing and wanting him to finish. The space-tree stuff is a symbolic representation of the doctors inner journey. Upon reading his wife's story and realizing that her true wish isn't to live forever, the 3 "stories" all converge as a way of showing his new understanding and recognition of death as a part of life. It's not actually about a man flying a space bubble to Xibulba, but about a man being at peace with the death of his loved one. It's not actually about a Conquistador searching for the Tree of Life, but about a woman finding a way to let her and her husband "live forever" through their mutually written story.
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I love this movie.

Really? remember the bit just after she dies and Jackmans boss comes in and tells him that the monkeys tumor was shrinking?

He'd found the cure but not in time, I got the impression that he then built on the results to find immortality and then taken the now dying tree containing Isabellas "soul" to the nebula so that they could both live forever.

Not sure tho about the link to Spain, it's either through the story she was writing or re-incarnation.

I'll have to watch it again, Dammit

Stunning visuals though. Specially at the end where he enters the nebula and bursts into light.

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Good point Zen, that is how I saw the film too. My girl said the bit about the space scenes being his internal voyage too; like it was so obvious. To me that is like saying that Total Recall doesn't have two interpretations because the guy had a sweat drop running down his face, which proves that it WASN'T a hallucination.

I liked the film, and prefer to imagine that he planted the magic tree over his dead wifes body and it picked up her essence and he was trying to get her to the nebula so they could be reunited when the star went nova.