08/02/07: It was actually about....(spoilers)

30 mintues too long.

And about coming to terms with death/mortality. The only real part is the present day, Hugh Jackman trying to beat death, not his of course, but his wife's. And she has accepted it as inevitable and nothing to fear, but he loves her too much to let her go. (It's funny the Spanish inquistor, the apparent villain, roughly agrees with Wiesz's acceptance of death.) After getting mad during the funeral ceremony, Hugh finishes her book...by adding some sci-fi crap...as future Hugh and conquistador Hugh converge...present day Hugh accepts death. Thus the future Hugh isn't anything more than fiction as well.

The oddity is the tree that cures monkey tumors or gives them youth. That may be the only sci-fi thing in the film.

I think...I only saw the movie once.

I didn't necessary agree with the movie's philosophy. Because I'm cynical, we don't become one with trees or any shit. We become compost; there's nothing spiritual about rotting.

Still, at least the film didn't turn into a cliched "killer on the loose" movie in the last 30 minutes.

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