Too bad all the weapons manufacturers on earth are not haunted by the souls of the people their weapons have killed. After several viewings, I noticed a lot of funny things. For example, after Jacob "dies" (lol, not quite!), he becomes the symbol of "X", then becomes a poem, then travells from plant to planet, then transforms into the rival beekeeper of his grandfather, then learns that if he destroy his "target", he'll essentially be reborn, the he transforms into a bomb and guides himself with the same flight-battle simulator he worked when he was a programmer, then he blows up Iraqi soldiers, then he fuses himself together with the X symbol and the grandfather's rival and the soldiers, eventually transforming into his final re-incarnated state: twins, and not just any twins. Allele twins, relatives of Ella.......Kill the grandfather's business-and-romantic rival than get reborn as relatives of grandfather's wife (who also happens to be grandfather's half-sister)...a malformed Oedipus Rex formula!I liked the connection between the bomb-site grid becoming a honeycomb becoming a map of the human brain.And even more so, the unspoked parallel between the fatal acquisition of Mesopotamian bees and the fatal acquisition of Mesopotamian oil (Persian Gulf War).
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