Me too

another underrated masterpiece is the assassination of jesse james

It's beautiful and meaningful.

You have good taste.

meow

Overlaying your Christian beliefs discredits the movie itself. Death is a decease that is not immoral. Is fact. Whether you use knowledge to prolong life is not being immoral. Knowledge has prolong human life and help humanity better itself than any pseudo religious beliefs in the whirlwind.

@@Epyon2007 quoting a biblical ref doesn't mean I'm religious. I just looked it from a spiritual point of view. If you think you know all about life and death, you could just be ignorant and not know it. Debating beliefs Vs science (basically you're talking about technology) is just noise, there seems to be something more that this movie captured in a way, which I guess you missed. And btw, immortal and immoral are two different things.

"Creo" means to know in Spanish

the best explanation I've seen so far.

@@mrblank-zh1xy more precisely "I believe"

Excellent interpretation!!

***** repeat viewing definitely helps with this movie, and this is one of those rare movies that can hold up to repeat viewing. From a Christian perspective, the film can be seen as a spiritual metamorphosis in which mankind transforms from a narrow dogmatic understanding of faith to metaphysical spiritual union with the divine.

Xavier Aponte thank you.

Spot on!

Great stuff. I read the film completely differently but this interpretation is very impressive.

Somehow your words were able to articulate everything I didn't think I could

Thats because you are what could be consider a reincarnation. A soul that has been reincarnated over and over. Coming across this movie that depicts so deeply the true nature of spirit and life and the journey invark in both aspect reflects on your soul. It feels more like a sign of release. You feel as though this movie confirms your deep understand of our existence as soul. I know this movie helped you remember a few things from your past life experience that has connected you to a deep level of soul searching that has connected you to your past and the many memories you have lived. Though you can't physically remember them you can feel them. You felt them in the tears you dropped as you watch this movie. That feeling in your chest was the feeling of remembering, remembering the fact that you have been here before and have already done this thing we call "the journey of life".

@@mewrozchannel3330 🙏🏻💙🙌🏻 I loved what you said ….it had been a very long time without seeing this movie this movie, fast forward to the now, and I get such a different feeling and perception of it now that I’ve been on my spiritual journey for sometime. I felt this deep in the soul.

Have u link for download

All of this!!

+James Livingston Clint Mansell is a fucking BEAST!

Me and my dad watched it 20 times (i'm not lying) and every time we analyze it and still have some question marks, but now I think we finally got to Awe.

This and Requiem for a Dream both have amazing scores!

I listened to the soundtrack for years before I watched the movie. I didn't want it to ruin the music. It didn't!

Better than the Forrest Gump soundtrack?

I saw it and it was heartwarmingly inspirational.

I found it quite boring when I first watched it. But luckily I rewatched it a few months later and it became one of my all time favourites. I have watched it over 20 times since then. I guess I wasn`t just in the right mood or state of mind when I first watched it. When I would have been a critic at this time I saidly would have given it a bad review too. I am sure there are some critic who regret their bad review from back then.

Because it forces you to come to terms with death. Most people are in denial.

because narration is bad... thats y u need to watch it 3-4 times... and then watch a video like this to fully get the plot...

because it requires you to think and most people dont like to think

Underrated comment.

The tree in the spaceship is not the tree Tommy plants over Izzy's grave. This is one of the most fundamental misreadings of the movie. In the final scene, the camerawork emphasizes that Tommy is still wearing the ring - that is, he did not choose to operate on Donovan (when he loses the ring) and goes on a walk with Izzy instead. So this final scene is entirely disjoint from the main storyline where he loses the ring, but finds the cure to death, prolongs his own life, and persists Izzy in tree-form. When spaceship Tommy finally accepts death and explodes, he is taken back to that pivotal moment of decision. Crucial to understanding the movie is recognizing that when Tommy chooses to walk with Izzy instead of pursuing the cure to death, that is his ultimate acknowledgement of finitude as what imbues life and love with the utmost meaning. So the seed Tommy plants in the end is just a seed - not Izzy, not a Tree of Life - just a normal seed that Izzy gives him on their last walk together.

dont say it is straightforward then type so much, you dipshit. al you did was present your own interpretation that makes sense to you. don't say it is straightforward on those grounds, you putz!

There is no interpretation going on here. There's 3 different stories; Past Tom, future Tom in space, and Izzy's fiction story. That's not open to interpretation. The rest was just an in depth explanation, and probabilities of what things could mean, like how Tom's life probably went between Izzy dying and him getting the bubble spaceship. It's clear he never moved on from Izzy, otherwise he'd have others to live for. It's not likely that he married dozens of times in his hundreds of years lifespan, then have Izzy become the focus again as he takes a spaceship out to go kill himself. It's clear that Izzy was his last love despite all those years he lived after her, and that he was tormented by her loss.....because he was the man who discovered immortality.....right after his wife died. That's a pretty cruel reality to live with. You save billions of people from death.....but not the one you love most. In the deleted scenes, you could see him essentially taking hallucinogens. There is literally a deleted scene called 'life on ship', which is of him in the bubble, and he's drying out and eating mushrooms.

No I don't think you got it at all. You can't take the story on face value. The only true part of the story is the present day with Tom trying to cure Izzy. When she dies he finishes her book and adds the story of future Tom heading to the nebula of Xibalba to heal the tree of life. However future Tom learns to deal with his own mortality and the death of his wife. So the story is a way to cope with the grieving for his wife and he finishes the book just like she always wanted.

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true!

Concur 100%

PeyoteIguana it not a book, it's real, the book was used for inception. He made it all come true. Or at least it's what I believe

I sympathize with his character. For him, his romantic attachment (for lack of better words) is the driving force of his passion and goal of defeating death. But it's pretty easy to take it a step further and see that "Death is a disease, it must be cured," and therefore take one's personal love and transform it into a universal love. Spiritually speaking, this is not a foreign concept, but rather the idea of a maturation and an alignment with divine power (for lack of better words).

@@Oxxyjoe It's also about living in the now and appreciating it, without the need for needing "more" or "better". Mindfulness. We die, that's what makes life and time precious.

The movie ends with Dr. Tom saying "Goodbye" to his dead wife. Future Tom is Dr. Tom's character finishing Izzies book.

The book was a guide to go to the next world with her to live together eternally. His love for her pulled him through time and made him immortal. It's just... there are no movies out there like this.. this is the most powerfull love story I've ever seen in any domain.

I feel you.

I wouldn't say that this is from the best movies but it definitely puts your brain to work..

Same

Definitely top 10! I cry every time I watch it.

what's so brainy about this movie?

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Same. I could watch this film for all eternity! Haha. Amazing film. ..I don't think I'll ever appreciate a piece of filmic art, as much as I do this film.

Tarah Lynn Is there anything similar to this movie available for viewing pleasure? I found it rather enjoyable.

Swaglord350 check the Interstellar !!! :)

Stanislav Kazakov Thanks bro, the movie that just came out right, I have heard good things about it.

Why watch it when you can do it? The tree of Life is attained by eating/drinking the tea of the Mimosa Hostilis Root Bark. This is a type of Acacia Tree. The Free Masons know this and worship the Acacia Tree. No Joke. It IS the Tree of Life. Make Ayahuasca from MHRB and Syrian Rue. But you will have to die as you are and be renewed in Eternal Life. The essence of this movie is the struggle to except death of the EGO and surrender to the Eternal-Light. It is a very hard thing to do. I have come close to it once. The feeling of freedom is incredible while you let go of the constricted egoic state and expand your consciousness into infinity and eternity of primordial BEING. Here is how to do it. Read my comments and Orange Juice recipe on that page! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m92RoM6Bz6_DoJs.html

yah,,it can be like that. thats the beauty of this film.so many possibilities can happen that makes it beaautiful.

Interesting interpretation.

I like this interpretation the best. I mean they put to much importance on the ring for it not to mean anything. I was trying to figure it out and you just explained it perfectly.

Skip Carver NUTSHELL 😎👌

Yeah this totally makes sense. And also in this case it shows everything is connected and essentially an infinite Loop which is why I think it shows the rings so often and the circles

Add to that the original cut was 2.5 hours long and he was forced to cut 45 mins. I want to see the full version.

is the full version available to purchase?

It's never been released. I'm hoping for a director's cut one day.

Mark David piratebay is your friend

Get on popcorn

i mean... the ost was amazing

Incredible

Even the OST follows the '3' theme laid out in the rest of the movie.

True

Nahh it was just a big fucking cherry on top.

My thoughts were similar, though I viewed Tomas as being in Izzie's book and Tommy (Astro Tom) as being the mind of Tom, with the struggle to keep the tree alive being a reflection of Tom's struggle with his work in an attempt to avert Izzie's fate. In the end, when Tommy shows up in place of Tomas, I view that as Tom fulfilling Izzie's wish that he finish her story. I can definitely see your view though, as he planted the tree in accordance with the story Izzie has told him. For your view, you see the tree in the Tommy line as being a memory held alive by Tom on his death bed, as both Tomas and Tommy die in the story, making sense that it is foreshadowing the death of Tom as well. That's one of the things I love about this movie, so many subtly variations in the way it can be seen - everyone sees it a little differently.

the three worlds are ONE... in spain, as he kneels before the queen you can see the tree of life pattern on her dress... the same pattern is on the hospital floor when they show a birds eye view of her bed... the pattern he tattoos on his arm is found on the glass at the hospital... the lights in the background are all the same hue as the ascension to xibalba, he is walking down the hallway in the hospital and there are TWO LIGHTS in the background symbolizing Xibalba The queen says " For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light" and then makes TOMAS kneel and they let in the morning light shine on him... when Izzy dies, he destroys the blinds in the hospital room and then you see that in his darkest moment, the morning light shines on him again... future tom to me is spirit tom... not "FUTURE"... inner spiritual world happening in present day Tom's life... TOMAS is a story being told to help him see the nature of his true existence... This and hundreds of more connections to each world... I'm gonna watch it again for the thousandth time tonight! lol

Well at the end you see Astro Tom smiling at Present time Izzie and saying with a smile "I'm going to die". To me that pretty much sealed the deal on my interperatation. It's a beautiful movie even the soundtrack. These kinds of movies don't come along often.

Leonardo Torres I see it the same way, no more times than present and Tom dealing with and finally accepting mortality, his wifes and his own. A long way to overcome his fear, he ate almost all of the bark. Little by little. One of the best movies ever made.

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27ShowStopper the immortality is the idea...that time is an illusion, past present and future don't exist like Einstein said

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Great point I always thought of it as him finishing the book and coming to terms with death in the end showing that Izzy book helped him come to terms with death .and the other two past and future toms being fiction toms the book toms in other words. Always imagined that Tom stopped his research after finishing the book and just started living .but also kinda thought in the back of my mind their all real in different parallel universes but the same soul reaching shebalba and finally intersect and become one at the end

Also the bubble... I thought it was just a force field that "astro tom" had created around the tree to transport it.

Thats because you are compassionate and intelligent.

Ok Mr. Humble, then what are you doing here on this video...

@@Imperial_Cosmonaut To see other peoples interpretation perhaps?

Excellent point

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Agreed. I just wept at the end, after seeing it for maybe the fifth time. It's a timeless, beautiful love story.

I totally agree. I have bought it about 7 times haha gave the 6 as gifts. one of the most underrated movies to this day.

nice

Totally agree. If your ready to see the truth and beauty of this film, its an incredible experience.

most people just want a spoon feed story. the best thing about this movie is that it has a lot of layers of theories and ideas, which makes me enjoy it more and more each time I watch it.

yea, most people are on a basic level of thinking. self validation and good fun times.

Death cease at the moment of two human beings are destined to make more humans.

I agree. I just want to.

Very powerful!

some go easy. others worry about the demons they created in this life that will follow them into the next. this is why i think the bible is created. to guide through life without suffering the the way way that others have.

Music to Live for! :-)

That is the best vision of this film that I can agree with you 100% . Also a great mind opener to the human fear of death and the road to awe :-)

@@vampyrhunterD55 Yeah, but thre is nothing after death.

This is exactly how I have felt watching this movie…the emotions are as strong and complex as any other artistic creation has ever made me experience. The ‘real’ meaning matters a lot less to me…

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Did you notice that the seed given to NOAH is the same seed that was given to Thomas in the Fountain. I think I am on this crazy boat with you.

Oh and the last lines in the movie are him finally seeing her in heaven after his death. As he finished the book, he accepted death and finally got eternal life with her.

+kbg12ila I think the moral of the story overall is that life is nothing without death. The tree of life is nothing without the dying star. Tom is nothing without Izzi.

amazing analysis, thanks

It does explain everything, and it has a very simple plot. Only the present events in the movie are supposed to be real. The medieval events are just what she wrote in her novel as she came to grips with dying. The future events are what her husband wrote, when he finally got around to finishing her novel, as pert of his grieving process. It is just the simple story of a novel being written by two deluded people.

yeh, which is why he was carving on himself to signify how old he was, amazing interpretation!

No

HogwashMcTurnip Yes.

Chu Kim Whatever.

My thoughts are in tune with yours. I take it one step further on a philosophical level and like to think that Astronaut Tom upon merging with the nebula is in fact entering into what Hindu's refer to as the Brahman. That is, "the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world." It is also referred to as "the highest reality." In a sense, it is the Hindu form of god wherein all the individual beings (presumably in metaphysical states, which I would like to think Astronaut Tom is in) become a part of this cosmic being (again, the Brahman). Just like the physical form, which is temporary, one could even argue that the highest form of reality is also temporary. As such, we see Conqueror Tom die and perhaps enter into the Brahman (after being devoured by nature so he could "live forever"). We see natural death as we know it today with Izzy as a part of Scientist Tom's story. We can assume this Tom also dies, as do all. But his thoughts live on of wanting to live forever, and moreover, wanting to be with his lover eternally. And through time, he does in the form of Astronaut Tom who dies the ultimate death and merges with the dying star entering into the spiritual alternative reality of the Brahman. Together at last with his lover and everyone else for that matter. It's even more beautiful when you begin to view love as itself metaphysical, yet attraction is physical. Tom was attracted to Izzy (we can assume physically and psychologically). However, the love he shows for her is not limited to time or physics. It exists even when she dies, and he dies, and continues to exist. When the screen fades to black it is truly all that exists.

Chris Romans Holy shit that is pretty deep.

oooh good one! that's actually pretty cool

+happyninja42 I don't understand the part when the mayash guy sees conquiztador as the 'first father' ,but he is not. The conquiztador is the thommy version of looking for immortality for his love,as seen in the rush for sucking that substance, and then realizing that,in this search,you only see death somehow,because it is scared that plants grow from him. It's not open minded like astro Tom . The future thommy and past one don't match in that part of the film.

Baltatu Andrei Yeah, it's a little weird I admit, I personally don't know how well it transitions. I have my own theory though, that, in the book, that Doctor Tom wrote, that was how he transitioned Spanish Tom to Astro Tom. That he was worked into the earth at the root of the tree, and then eventually came free to become Astro Tom and pilot the ship. That *in the book*, there is no Doctor Tom, but those are simply visual connections to transition from one scene to the next in the movie. That the tattoo ritual is just a bit of real life that Doctor Tom worked into the character to have a personal connection. It doesn't work exactly as a reason, I admit, but it's what makes the most sense to me.

Arsalan Khan In his story, her soul was part of the tree, and was still alive, but slowly dying. He was racing to get her to Shibalba just like he was racing to find a cure for her cancer. It's all muddled I agree, but I don't really care, I enjoy the movie too much. xD But, I mean, if we look at it from the viewpoint of a story, which is what it is, or at least my theory. He came up with the best plot connection he could, considering where Izzie left the story open. And he's not a great writer, he's a doctor, so he didn't do a great job of continuity and plot holes. xD

+Arsalan Khan It's up to you what you choose to believe. I like to think a little bit about what movies like these wanted to express,but not deep thinking,not in details.Also this movie seemed more ambiguous than Memento and Mr nobody,to me at least. It let more holes for the viewer to fill and the story itself is emotionally stronger, deeper, abstract.

I have always subscribed to the theory that 1500: Izzys story 2000: Real story 2500: Tom finishing the book. WAY more evidence supporting this theory than him ACTUALLY living 500 years. I mean the whole point of the movie is that death is inevitable and something to embrace rather than run away from. So it goes against everything the movie stands for if he actually found the cure to death by living for 500 years.

Kabbalah is a heresy of Judaism, largely embraced by Hollywood sycophants and celebrity low-lifes. Its an amalgamation of Judaism and modern New Age silliness. This movie, however, is great!

Cory Dupont....and yet the movie is still based in Kabbalah teachings. PS- if that's how you perceive Kabbalah you must not really know the teachings or their connection to the Mystery schools.

I understand Kabbalah well enough - I used to practice it! Anyhow, the film is not based in Kabbalah, and there is nothing from Aronofsky (who is a self-proclaimed atheist) or any of the other filmmakers involved that indicates otherwise.

.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot Sephirot (/sfɪˈroʊt/, /ˈsfɪroʊt/; Hebrew: סְפִירוֹת‎ Səphîrôṯ),[1] meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus). The term is alternatively transliterated into English as Sefirot/Sefiroth, singular Sephirah/Sefirah etc. Alternative configurations of the sephirot are given by different schools in the historical development of Kabbalah, with each articulating different spiritual aspects. The tradition of enumerating 10 is stated in the Sefer Yetzirah, "Ten sephirot of nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven". As altogether 11 sephirot are listed across the different schemes, two (Keter and Daat) are seen[by whom?] as unconscious and conscious manifestations of the same principle, conserving the ten categories[citation needed]. In Kabbalah the functional structure of the sephirot in channeling Divine creative life force, and revealing the unknowable Divine essence to Creation is described. The first sephirah describes the Divine Will above intellect. The next sephirot describe conscious Divine Intellect, and the latter sephirot describe the primary and secondary conscious Divine Emotions. Two sephirot (Binah and Malchut) are feminine, as the female principle in Kabbalah describes a vessel that receives the outward male light, then inwardly nurtures and gives birth to lower sephirot. Corresponding to this is the Female Divine Presence (Shechinah-Hebrew: שכינה). Kabbalah sees the human soul as mirroring the Divine (after Genesis 1:27, "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them"), and more widely, all creations as reflections of their life source in the sephirot. Therefore, the sephirot also describe the spiritual life of man, and constitute the conceptual paradigm in Kabbalah for understanding everything. This relationship between the soul of man and the Divine, gives Kabbalah one of its two central metaphors in describing Divinity, alongside the other Ohr (light) metaphor. However, Kabbalah repeatedly stresses the need to avoid all corporeal interpretation. Through this, the sephirot are related to the structure of the body and are reformed into Partsufim (Personas). Underlying the structural purpose of each sephirah is a hidden motivational force which is understood best by comparison with a corresponding psychological state in human spiritual experience.

Cory Dupont And what about the mushrooms? Therein resides the key.

Seconded.

I've watched this so many times....and the sound track even more.

I just love the sound track

You made this movie?

Ville John Stop it. The context allows for that statement's validity.