the movement into pure thought

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2006)

the movement into pure thought, the ecstasy of something so great it's nothing, the fetus, the icy blue and white of the celestial embryo. I have loved this movie since I first started loving movies, which was a product of my first starting to love life, love it with my consciousness, and how fitting that a movie about the development of consciousness in humanity would be associated for me with the development of my own consciousness. This movie is about the development of humanity's consciousness, as if humanity might be embodied in a single human, metonymy, a single part of a whole symbolizing the whole. It's really Hegelian and Darwinian. Read Hegel, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and think of how it resonates with this movie. Do the same with Darwin's Origin of Species.