More than meets the eye...

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2006)

I have to say that the reviews on this movie were less that inspiring. I can understand how most people would miss what this movie is about, mistaking it for a scattered love story across what seems an endless time line. It couldn't be anything further from that hopeless synopsis that i can imagine. This brilliant film is a depiction of our inner selves and the simple yet epic struggle of being present with ones self. Which can mean the difference in our experience hear on earth becoming heaven or hell. How beautiful that it is our choice.
I would like to further stipulate that this film does not take place over the course of thousands of years but that it happens within the essence of a sheer moment, the here and now, which is all there is. It begins with him telling his wife he couldn't spend the moment with her because he was to busy trying to save her life, and ends with his enlightened response to the same question.
I further maintain that the bubble in space represented his state of being or mind and was a visual manifestation of where his awareness was during the entire experience.
The story of the conquistador was his wife's method of showing her beloved husband what it means to truly live, forever, together. She used a method in which he could easily follow, as he wasn't ever really with HER, he was only consumed with the inner desire to hold on to the idea of her. As he was loosing her, he clung to the only thing that would make him feel consumed by her, an unfinished story which he was to write the end to. This took him down the path of ultimate enlightenment which is what you see at the very end of the film. Again people mistake this for some hocus pocus or loss of focus on account of the creators. This is his coming to the conclusion that life is eternal right here and now, that death is but a mere transformation, and that as we are beings of energy, that there really is no end, just endless evolution.
I also believe the creators of this story intended to bring up the point that we have people in our lives who guide us to higher awareness and understanding, and I believe his wife was his guide.
There is so much to this film I plan on seeing it a few times and I give it two thumbs up!!