Anyway this movie was a great deal of creativity, art, philosophy and so much life in it.
The idea that this movie reveals is that death is really just a dream from which we never awake again in the same physical body, but at the same time life is a dream itself. The protagonist feels like he is trapped in this endless dream from which he keeps awakening into another dream. In fact he really is. In fact we all are. How can this (the waking life) be more real, I mean dream is just a concept opposite to reality but what if we got it wrong? What if they are not opposites, just different sides of the same coin?
Forget the dream/reality dilemma just for now and let's think about another concept this movie widens.
The idea of now being the eternity and time being only a barrier that keeps us from living our eternity.
Lady Gregory tells this character in the movie: "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually there's only ONE INSTANT, and it's RIGHT NOW, and it's ETERNITY. And it's an instant in which god is posing a question, and that question is basically "Do you wanna, you know, be one with eternity? Do you wanna be in heaven?" And we're all saying "No, thank you. Not just yet." So time is actually just this constant saying "No" to god's invitation. I mean that's what time is. And it's no more 50 A.D. than it's 2001, I mean it's just one instant, in which we're always in.
This concept of time and now I have also read at Eckhart Tolle's "Power of Now" which expresses the same idea supported by quotes from the bible as well as buddhist philosophy.
The truth is only what we recall to be the truth. I can't say I believe or not, because I can't think of a way to prove or disprove such things as mental concepts. I just find it to be the truth. You might not. The point is that everyone of us will find out the truth in an eternal moment.
The last idea I want to record for myself in this post, as well as for whoever may or may not read it, is the idea of creating your life. Life is our creation. Dream is our destiny. This is a motivating and inspiring idea and it gives me so much strength to go ahead and say "Yes" to whatever I want to do.
I don't know if I'm supposed to comment, but I'll go for it!
ReplyDeleteI believe there's an after-life, which is eternity.
When a human dies I believe that the spirit carries on, whether it lives on another human or just at its form, that I cannot now. A lot of things seem confusing about this life and the after-life, at least that's the way it is for me!
All the world, I think, agrees with the fact that eternity exists. Even though, it's hard for me, I think that this life it's not part of it (eternity), as if it would have been, we wouldn't die.
You're supposed to comment whenever you feel like it. Thank you for feeling like commenting :) You believe after-death life is eternity. That means that we don't get a new life, but we continue to live after death (not phisically or mentally of course but spiritually). That means that death does not interrupt life, therefore if there is an eternity it could be now, in this life, in this very moment. Couldn't it?
ReplyDeleteMaybe death, is a micro-second break, and then there's life, but it's so confusing ain't it? I mean if you think a lot about this, you can't, it's beyond our imagination.
ReplyDeleteExactly, but thinking is not imagining. I mean to imagine is something else. You can imagine it, you can imagine anything.
ReplyDeleteYeah, right! You can imagine everything! Anyway, when you have some time, check out my blog!
ReplyDeleteThat is why movies are immortal. Because ideas never get completely gone. They leave a mark, ceasing to open more marks and recreating ideas over and over again.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fine movie and the "message" that it promotes is interesting enough to keep you thinking deeply in search for some new questions or answers. (that depends).
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