Death Infinity Religion Knowledge
God Banality Recurrence Resurrection
Awe Isolation Cold Violence
Determinism Food Innocence Old Age vs. Childhood
Master plan David vs. Goliath Cover Stories Reason vs. Emotion
"They're ready/not ready." Artificial displacing the real
Creation of the universe Development: cocoon to butterfly
Systems out of control Human vs. Machine
Competition vs. Cooperation Birthdays
Odyssey (journey) The Tool
Depth vs. Surface
Earth vs. Outer Space
Karma
Reincarnation
Road to Heaven paved with bad intentions
"What goes up must come down"
Phenomenon X is frequently instantiated in different forms
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
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Few films weave together so many master themes, and few do the weaving
so SUBTLY.
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