Who is Jesus? A carpenter in a fishing village. 12 The apostles were fishermen and tax collectors. Their way of life: Abandoning family, possessions, and worldly things, they travel around the Mediterranean coast, eating food and covering themselves.
Who is Shakyamuni? The prince of a small country in India, gave up everything, practiced asceticism, meditated, and meditated. The way of life is to beg. Eat thousands of family meals, wear dung sweeping clothes.
Not to mention Taoism. The so-called immortal wind and daogu actually go to the fields and cultivate the land by themselves.
The 1960s was actually a struggle between the mind and the material. The film's idea is actually quite simple: two drug dealers travel across the United States, encountering various Americans on the way, and the new culture of the 1960s contrasts strongly with traditional America. These two people just happen to be struggling materially and spiritually.
So the movie ends:
You know, Billy...
we blew it.
What?
That's what it's all about.
I mean, like, you know.
You go for the big money, man,
and then you're free.
You dig?
We blew it.
The sudden death at the end, it seems very dramatic, in fact, this is the way most people die. Birth is as if it will last forever. To die is to be over.
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