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Marcus007
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Montreal, Canada

Why did the movie confuse you? What part didn't you get?

Conquestidor has to save queen from the head of the Spanish Inquisition. Note the parellel with the inquisition eating Spain from the inside out just like the cancer was killing Izzi from the inside out.

Current day. Guy can't come to terms with his wife's death. He tries over and over again to find a cure but realizes too late that there is no cure for death.

Future. Hugh Jackman on the way to Sebulba, the golden dying star of the mayan philosophy. That circle surrounding him and the tree (Izzi) is his vessle to transport him to the end of time. This journey is the last few moments he has "alive" so he tries frantically to close up all loose ends (ie: accepting Izzis dead) and die complete.

The End:

The Conquestidor finds the tree of life but it's just an allusion. There is no eternal life and although the healing powers works at first his greed takes him over the edge. The whole turning him into a flower thing is a sign because remember when Izzi spoke about Moses, the Mayan dude she studied who spoke about his fathers dead, she said he planted a TREE (a flower) on top of his grave and he lived forever.

It's a little too early for deep philosophy like this but I hope my breakdown makes sense.

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Ravemontreal
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Montreal

It makes complete sense and I did understand most of all this.

What I meant is that the movie didn't get too me, I had trouble having the time to let the love story sink into because the editing jumps quickly and often between past, mid, futur, and what is real and not... so at one point you are trying so hard to put the puzzle together that you forget to feel something.

It's still not clear to me if the futur is the end of the book that he wrote and is a metaphor of him finally accepting death, or if it actually happens. Since he found an anti-aging cure for the monkey, and that the first tatoo he does to himself happens in present, it left me the impression that the last part could actually be real. That he actually plant that tree and hundreds of years later found a way to take it there.

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