From a forth wall perspective they obtained immortality Because they made the movie and still there as long the film exists, immortals as form of art, written in culture and in our minds So, the alchemist, who is played by jodoworsky, made them immortals
i don't know why people interpret this as anything other than what it is. jodorowsky literally tells you when he says "maya." the whole thing is a hindu allegory, though similar concepts can be found in all religions.
It is the best representation of our life now and what will happen to us after death. Our illusion of life is stable and it costs everything to break it BUT after we die, we realize that everything around us is just an act and that we have to move forward. Great movie!
It sounds like something Emet-Selch would say. Agree people do the challenges for rewards and bragging rights, not for the challenge itself. That's why is almost impossible to get a group to do an older raid blind and synced. That's why the Burger King enthusiast bitch about having to do a savage on mentor roulette. Even if they knew that's what they signed for. That's why there is dead content in this game. Unless you are a streamer, then people would do the savages to see their characters on youtube.
I interpreted the ending as us being in some kind of Truman Show. And the Pantheon Bar is symbolic for the false teachings that present themselves as opportunities to reach a deeper level of truth but they are really just distractions from the one and only true realization: Our world is a stage, we are the unsuspecting naive actors in the fake reality. We must break the veil, maya, to go back to the real dimension which isn't this TV show called life on planet earth aka open air asylum we live in right now. Indulging in little magic tricks like the man who teleported through the mountain or consuming drugs just brings us to different layers of the false reality - it would still be going by the rules / the script, instead of abandoning our roleplay completely and leaving the stage.
I love this ending. Ultimately all religion is about accepting truth, accepting reality, and destroying lies, deceptions, and illusions. Truth is the only real "immortal" whether you believe in it or not.
It's very rare for a movie to break the fourth wall and still maintain a sense of sincerity and purity in its message. The subversion is what validates the entire journey. This is one of those movies that embraces itself completely and wholeheartedly.
Welp, the only thing left for me to do now is to kick his ass fair and square in about 3 years give or take when we get an ShB MSQ Ultimate, then proceed to never use the title or weapon from it.
ma·ya /ˈmäˌyä,ˈmīə/ noun HINDUISM the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions. HINDUISM•BUDDHISM the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world.
