The film and score are gorgeous. Acting is flawless. I love it.
For me this is about transcendent love, the kind of love that powers huge forces and leaves a mark on the world. Its hard to capture that feeling that you would do anything for someone because of love, and what the result of this love from driven powerful people looks like. I think the parallel story lines of a doctor giving everything to save his wife and the conquistador laying his life on the line for his queen's wishes captures the dedication, affection, respect and fear of loss inherent in these relationships. The third supernatural layer is what for me, takes the feeling of big love to the next level. The metaphysical - being bound through time and space, true soul mates. The visuals, the score, the emotion climax to this realisation - that nothings lost, energy persists, that love is reborn.
The stories are thin, and not about the stories at all. For me they are just vehicles for capturing that feeling that Hugh Jackmans characters would move the world for the Rachel Weiszs. The acting here is unreal. Two relationships in different times and different types but full of respect, magic and love.
Get swept away in the emotion and feeling, don't try to make too much sense of the link between the stories - the everything easily make sense.
Review by nicoleahmedBlockedParentSpoilers2023-11-15T23:06:39Z
The film and score are gorgeous. Acting is flawless. I love it.
For me this is about transcendent love, the kind of love that powers huge forces and leaves a mark on the world. Its hard to capture that feeling that you would do anything for someone because of love, and what the result of this love from driven powerful people looks like. I think the parallel story lines of a doctor giving everything to save his wife and the conquistador laying his life on the line for his queen's wishes captures the dedication, affection, respect and fear of loss inherent in these relationships. The third supernatural layer is what for me, takes the feeling of big love to the next level. The metaphysical - being bound through time and space, true soul mates. The visuals, the score, the emotion climax to this realisation - that nothings lost, energy persists, that love is reborn.
The stories are thin, and not about the stories at all. For me they are just vehicles for capturing that feeling that Hugh Jackmans characters would move the world for the Rachel Weiszs. The acting here is unreal. Two relationships in different times and different types but full of respect, magic and love.
Get swept away in the emotion and feeling, don't try to make too much sense of the link between the stories - the everything easily make sense.