Simply beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2006)

my interpretations: It's hard to digest the whole immensity of the movie after one viewing. The movie has been falsely advertised as being a story of undying love with three parallel stories when in fact this movie has only one true story and it isn't about love. The story is about one man's journey in accepting death as a part of natural order of the universe. Thomas the conquistador is merely a metaphor for the 21rst century Tommy's reckless pursuit on finding a cure for the degenerating disease his wife has. That metaphor is portrayed by the fictional tale Lizzy has written on her book. She intentionally leaves out the last few pages to be written by Tommy after her death so he can come to peace with the idea of immortality through the infinity and rebirth through death. The future Tom is an allegory for tommy's unwavering and unending quest in saving his dying wife while he himself is perishing slowly in his work, losing his humanity, losing perspective in what's truly important.
Therefore, out of the 3 stories, the 21rst century one is actually the only literal one. The past is tied with Lizzy's book and the future is tommy's internal struggle into coming at peace with her death.
The ending scene is beautiful, he plants a a seed on her grave so that she can be one with the cosmos and breed new life and render life through death.
well I could be totally wrong but those are my opinions.