Tarot cards point to the process of a person's spiritual growth, a process of experiencing painful transformation! The Knight of the Holy Grail is a stranger from afar, the seducer. The holy grail refers to interpersonal relationships, relationships with women, family, brothers, friends, money, honor, status, fame, and other people, and relationships between people and man-made objects. These relationships are complex, seemingly beautiful but empty and boring. It does not make people truly happy and satisfied. What is all this seemingly prosperous and beautiful? According to Ecclesiastes, all this is vanity and chasing after wind.
Terrence Malik is a Catholic. If you want to analyze his films, you must start with the Bible. A prince, the son of the King of the East. The King of the East points to the King of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, and also points to the Triune God. The prince points to God's chosen people, God's children---Christians. The Son of God was sent to Egypt to find a pearl, but was lost in the vanity and prosperity of Egypt. There is a man-made paradise, rich, status, beautiful women, and endless singing and dancing. If you are not satisfied, there are spiritual spirituality that seems to be able to liberate the soul, paganism, idols of outsiders, and divination that can predict the future. But can these make people full and free? The women who keep changing have no names, and the scenes that change are nothing more than desires. The soul is like a black hole that can never be filled! The prince also seemed to be sleepwalking, blurred like a shaking camera. Love and not love can’t be distinguished, and there is only quarrel and resentment between father and son brothers! Friends can't give much help, one by one is more lost than oneself, drunk and dreaming! The sleeping prince could not hear God's call, and could not recognize God's messenger. He wandered and struggled in his own suffering. What is all this? This is also a "Ecclesiastes". King Solomon, who is wiser than the world, has countless wealth, a woman. Is he happier than the world? Is it more satisfying? Everything is vanity, chasing the wind, nothing new under the sun! The world under the sun can bring nothing to the prince. Only the God above the sun, the truth, is the pearl that can make people free! People must go through painful experience before they can recognize these clearly, and then the soul can die and be resurrected. Suffering may be a manifestation of God’s love. He helps people not to help people avoid suffering, but to enter suffering and be trapped in it, so that people can be higher than themselves, higher than their desires, and higher than the world.
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