When the film’s astronaut hero (Matthew McConaughey), declares that the mysterious and all-knowing “they” who created a wormhole near Saturn through which he travels to save mankind – dissolving his sense of material reality in the process – are in fact “us”, he is simply repeating the central notion of the UPANISHADS, India’s oldest philosophical texts. These hold that individual HUMAN MINDS are merely brief reflections within a COSMIC ONE. The hero views life from every perspective – is the film’s expression of Indra’s net, the Hindu metaphor which depicts the universe as an eternal web of existence spun by the king of the gods, each of its intersections adorned with an infinitely sided jewel, every one continually reflecting the others.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:17:34 +0000
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