I don't know if this qualifies as *spoiler*, but ...
Am I the only one who saw these two leading characters as Jesus Christ and Mary Magdelene? In that context, the whole movie starts to make sense, in a metaphorical way, that is.
Just get out your New Testament and start tracking the scenes in this movie. This is the last years of the life of Christ. And the final scene is clearly the resurrection, isn't it? I didn't recognize it until about halfway through the first time it aired on HBO (or Showtime, or TMC, etc.) when it suddenly hit me. Temptation, the merchants at the Temple, and so on.
Am I the only one who saw these two leading characters as Jesus Christ and Mary Magdelene? In that context, the whole movie starts to make sense, in a metaphorical way, that is.
Just get out your New Testament and start tracking the scenes in this movie. This is the last years of the life of Christ. And the final scene is clearly the resurrection, isn't it? I didn't recognize it until about halfway through the first time it aired on HBO (or Showtime, or TMC, etc.) when it suddenly hit me. Temptation, the merchants at the Temple, and so on.