Celebrate the moments

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2007)

A visual feast of stunning imagery...captivating and clever, beautiful and intense; full of mystery and dreamlike metaphors - i loved it! If you are an artist you will be inspired by this movie. I am looking forward to watching it again
The director grapples with life's great mysteries, suffering and death, in such a refreshing way. And just like suffering and death it doesn't always make sense.
My take on the movie: the 'present' story is straight forward, its the real part of the story . The historical story was Izzi's metaphor for how she was dealing with her sickness. The future story was a little hard to work out but i think it was Tom's journey, his way of dealing with his wife's death. The message for me was no matter how far into the future you go trying to cure suffering it will always be with us. The way to resolve it is to celebrate the moments we have and know when to let go. This was shown towards the end of the movie when Tom decided to go for a walk in the snow with her, and give up on the cure.
We can be so busy trying to work out the cure for life(or death) we miss out living it... 'enjoy the journey'.