Philosophy and Psychology

We all might have heard this ancient Greek myth that humans were once whole. We had four legs, four arms, and two faces. We were so powerful that we dared to challenge the gods. And as punishment, Zeus split us into two halves, condemning us to wander the earth forever in search of our other half (our soulmate). This idea appears in Symposium by Plato. (Just so y’all know, this wasn’t Plato’s own claim, but a story told by the playwright Aristophanes. It is his myth that popularized the idea of soulmates as “two halves of one whole.”) Through this, one can understand that love, in its oldest telling, begins with a wound. And this movie clearly captures this idea.  Let’s begin with Tim’s character first. Tim is a character who carries his past with him which refuses to stay dead. As a child, he witnesses something no child should ever see—his mother’s emotional rupture. He watches her sit bedside his dead father, smiling, looking directly at him. This moment is deeply disturbing no...