There's something extremely profound about Lucas's first film. He definitely
knows. On the surface level, it's a portrayal of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, but going deeper it actually draws upon the Mithraic and Eleusinian Mysteries, which are initiation rites into enduring the geophysical catastrophe.
The choice in music is also prodigious. Bach's St. Matthew Passion prelude (Kommt, ihr Tochter) as the ending theme is intense. Bach named his four passions after the Four Evangelists/Four Living Creatures of the Christian Tetramorph, the Christian astrological mandala which derives itself as Piscean revision of the older Mithraic Tauroctony.
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