The universe in the eye, the mirror of the soul
, I Origins in English, is an American film of the year 2014, is an independent production that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival of the same year and was awarded as best film at the 2014 Sitges Festival, directed by Mike Cahill and starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling and Strid Berges-Frisbey, the film presents a drama with an interesting but surprisingly believable fictional component.
- Science and spirituality are mixed in the film; something that seems very difficult to consolidate.
- But that combines properly.
- The plot is constructed as a kind of matriochka (Russian doll).
- But with a thread: the eyes.
- First.
- We met scientist Ian Gray.
- Who is trying to conduct research that can eventually demystify spirituality.
- From there.
- This plot will take us to another.
- To finally explain why “the eyes are the mirror of the soul”.
Obsessed with his eyes, Ian Gray intends to find a source, a starting point for the evolution of the eye that proves, with evidence, that faith no longer has a place in our society. Ian is obsessed with science, evidence and data; but, to her surprise, she will find love in a very atypical young woman: Sofi, a foreign girl who has a strong spirituality that contrasts strongly with Ian’s skepticism.
The universe in the eye enters one of the most debated issues in history: science versus science. Religion. Deepens in various beliefs and responds to reincarnation. The eyes will be the starting point and also the discovery that will make Ian question everything he knows, everything he has studied. The film, however, sometimes sins with very surreal dialogues, with little credibility in a normal couple’s conversation. Despite this, given Sofi’s nature, they may not be so unreal.
Perhaps we are facing a very predictable film, which wants to tackle many things and sometimes stays on the surface, it may not reach the hearts of the most skeptical, but it certainly has a good approach, a good development. And you get the plot involving us, is there reincarnation?What if our eyes were nothing more than the mark of other past lives, other souls who once had the same look?
For Ian, there is nothing that science cannot explain, there is no spiritual world, everything comes through science, observations and demonstrations that can be drawn from the world around us. Chance and coincidence are not part of his conception of the world, but all this changes when he meets Sofi, a young woman he meets by chance, whose face he does not know and whose face he does not even see.
Ian and Sofi go to the same Halloween party, a night related to the spiritual, the souls, she is disguised, with only her eyes exposed, incomparable and fascinating eyes that Ian will not forget, after losing track, Ian enters The Search for Sofi and a series of coincidences will take him to her. Suddenly, Ian begins to see that number 11 appears several times and, as a result of this problem, finds Sofi.
Why 11? Although in the film the number appears completely casual and inexplicable in Ian’s life, it can be thought that he was not chosen at random, since number 11 is traditionally related to spiritual life. 11 is twice 1, the sum of its numbers gives us 2 , which makes us think of duality, in two planes, two worlds; in turn, it is greater than the number 10, linked to perfection, but also to the material world, so the 11th takes us to a plane beyond, the spiritual one.
The Pystagans saw in nature a certain numerical correspondence; reason gave access to nature, to true knowledge, and this, in turn, was related to mathematics, to numbers. For them, everything came from one; that would be the fundamental principle from which other things would come, hope. 1 is linked to a certain divine nature, and from here the others will arise. Everything would be expressed by the 10, so the 11 would be linked to an aircraft beyond the ground.
In addition, the Pystagans had a mystical view of the world; we must not forget that, more than a school, they were a secret and religious association. For the Pystagans, there was a transmigration of souls, that is, the soul was on a divine plane, it did not belong to the earth; the soul inhabited the body and after death occupied a new body and did so as many times as necessary until liberation was attained.
To achieve this purification or liberation of the soul, they had to follow certain rules of behavior, among which vegetarianism stands out, something strongly linked to reincarnation and that appears in other religions, such as Buddhism. To Sofi, he does not seem to belong to any particular religious current, but he believes in reincarnation and feels deeply connected to certain beliefs in India.
In this way, we see that this coincides not only with pythagorics in mysticism number 11, but also with claims about reincarnation. Sofi also coincides with Pystagans in vegetarianism, which will allow him to question scientific experiments, question reality. ethics of experimenting with animals, of torturing verses, as in Ian’s case, either to prove that a theory is true, or by a simple human selfishness.
Currently, we do not hesitate to link Pythagoras and his followers to mathematics, geometry, rational and scientific knowledge; however, as we deepen its philosophy, we realize the importance of the religious component. In O Universo no Olhar, spirituality and science merge, mix and invite us to reflect on the world around us.
Plato explained to us that there were two worlds, that there was a world beyond our senses, but that it was there; This world would give us access to the truth, the one that would liberate our souls. Sofi asks Ian an interesting question: he experiments with verses that have only two meanings. without vision, without any other meaning, what would prevent us from seeing further?
The worms Ian is experimenting with cannot see, as a result, they do not know what light is or what the colors are, how can we be sure that we do not lack any other meaning that allows us to perceive something that is before us and that we simply do not know because we do not have the ability to access it?
The men Plato described in his allegory of the cave, like Ian, clung to his sensitive reality, to those shadows they considered real because they were what they saw; however, they set aside a real world that they rejected without access, without wondering whether it was real or not. The thing is, it seems that everything unknown or inexplicable is scary. That’s why we want to hold on to what we see, to what we perceive through our senses.
it plays with what we consider rational, with the limits of our own knowledge, and tries to propose a reality that could be before our eyes and that we simply cannot perceive. The film develops a plot to finally repeat and illustrate a metaphor that we have It was heard a lot throughout history: “the eyes are the mirror of the soul”.
“Have you ever met someone who, at first glance, fills a void you had and who, when you leave, makes that void more painful?The universe in the eye?