Spiritual Evolution? Maybe

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2005)

There is a very interesting aspect to the movie that may have been left unnoticed which refers to the fact that Tom Cruise's character may actually have died as a result from suicide, and that all the rest of the story refers to him getting adapted to his condition as a spirit, by trying to get the treatment he would be entitled to in the other dimension or parallel universe if you will. In my very particular way of seeing things, I am led to believing that whatever it was that happened to him was the result of the conditions in which he disembodied. By being deformed he may not have accepted death itself, and in this sense, was around, or even better, just wandering around the world of the living for ages until he was informed he was able to climb up to another level of threshold he was sent to, this being understood as the Suicidal Valley. It might as well be understood that his jump was the moment of evolution of his spirit, despite the fact that he may have been evolved to another level even in the body of a cat, where the whole procedure of spiritual evolution would definitely get its start. OPEN YOUR EYES could be understood as "Ok! One Hundred and Fifty Years have gone by and you have finally learned its time to move on and reincarnate as cat! Chances are you do thing in a better way this time"