Great read! I think there’s a slight mistake towards the end, it’s Annie and Stack that get reunited in the afterlife and Mary and Smoke that are damned.
I love your analysis! This tracks with my recent understanding of my faith as a Christian… the choice to eat the fruit in the garden of Eden was just that, a choice. With greater awareness comes greater capacity for good and also greater capacity for evil. Everything in our finite earthly existence boils down to one thing- choice.
Thanks for pointing this out! And yes, even the way that the entire film had scenes about business and negotiating the cost of things, as well as making deals with the devil, it's all about choice and the decisions we make as well as what we believe those choices will mean in the present and the eternal.
Great read! I think there’s a slight mistake towards the end, it’s Annie and Stack that get reunited in the afterlife and Mary and Smoke that are damned.
I love your analysis! This tracks with my recent understanding of my faith as a Christian… the choice to eat the fruit in the garden of Eden was just that, a choice. With greater awareness comes greater capacity for good and also greater capacity for evil. Everything in our finite earthly existence boils down to one thing- choice.
Thanks for pointing this out! And yes, even the way that the entire film had scenes about business and negotiating the cost of things, as well as making deals with the devil, it's all about choice and the decisions we make as well as what we believe those choices will mean in the present and the eternal.