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Your view that Banksy *is* Mr. Brainwash...rather than Thierry Guetta (who is the real Mr. Brainwash - as depicted in this documentary)...is totally unsupported by any facts whatsoever.
You're advancing a baseless conspiracy theory.
The truth is that Banksy didn't need to create a hoaxed documentary, because reality proved to be even more warped than any hoaxed version could ever be - and sadly, more revealing of the true artistic bankruptcy of the modern art world. So he simply told the real story, just as it unfolded, because the entire modern art word proved to be the best possible and ruefully tragic commentary on itself. All Banksy had to do was to tell how it all went down with style, which is exactly what he did here.
Yes, the conquistador storyline is Izzy's book, which she gives to Tommy to finish as a way of helping him see beyond death, as she was in the process of doing on her deathbed.
But if you watch the film carefully, you'll see that the "future" timeline is actually the present-day setting of the film, and the events happening in the lab storyline are Tom's memories.
Tom doesn't actually finish Izzy's story until the very end of the film - in fact we see that Tom in the bubble ship dreads the task before him to finish her book even after 500 years, because it represents an end to him - an end which he can't bear to face.
But at the finale of the film, he has a realization, and becomes peaceful and meditative as he sets out from the bubble ship in his own mini-bubble, and in that transcendent state, he finishes her story in his mind - that's the scene where he appears, hovering in the lotus position, before the Mayan priest. That whole sequence at the very end of the film with Tomas the conquistador and the priest and the levitating Enlightened Tom - that's his final chapter for Izzy's book. Then in that state of enlightenment and completion, he reaches back in time and touches his own mind at the pivotal moment in the hallway, and Tommy chases after Izzy, creating a new timeline where he devotes his final days with Izzy to being with her, rather than maniacally trying to save her life, which is why he has the wedding ring on his finger as he visits her grave and says good-bye to her: the Tommy in the new timeline never lost the ring in the lab because this Tommy didn't go to the lab; he stayed with Izzy until she died.
[quote]The one thing i dont get with this analysis, is that Tom in spite of having accepted Izzys death in the last scene (supposedly the new created parallell universe/timeline after future Tom achieved enlightenment) he still plants that seed on her Grave. Yes im aware he says goodbye to her, supposedly letting go, but then what purpose was there of the plant if he wasnt going to xibalba this time around? maybe it was a symbolic gesture considering everything he knew from the other timelines at that point.[/quote]
No, the Tom in the new timeline isn't aware of the other timeline where he dies at Xibalba...he simply turned right instead of left that day in the hallway at the lab, because he felt the nudge of his future self focusing his attention on his love for Izzy, rather than pursuing the hopeless task of trying to save her. So he went after her into the snow, and she gave him the seed from the tree, which he planted at her grave after she died so she'd be reanimated as part of nature in the form of her tree. This time he doesn't take the tree to Xibalba - we can presume that he lives a normal life and dies, to probably be buried beside her and probably absorbed by the same tree.
Your other questions go really deep...I can only make guesses about them. I think that Tom becomes First Father of the new timeline after Xibalba explodes, and that timeline vanishes because he changed the past. If it's a true parallel timeline, then we can forgive Aronofsky if he thought that a supernova could create a new galaxy (you're right, it would only create a new stellar system). Tom and Izzy would be the unified spirit of that new star system, and the life that arises there.
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