Machine summary:
"The film comprises three storylines where Jackman and Weisz play different sets of characters: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and this nameless strange character in the space who hallucinates his lost love.
Through flashbacks, it is revealed that the conquistador has been commissioned by Queen Isabella of Spain to travel to the New World in search of the Biblical Tree of Life.
As a final act of love and devotion, Tommy plants a tree seed at Izzi's grave in the manner of a story she told him relating how a Mayan guide's dead father lived on in a tree nourished by the organic nutrients of the buried body.
Bear this in mind that at the end, I will not try to conclude any thing, since it is just the impressions I wrote down on the very night that I had watched the movie for the second time: Space Traveler Lack of Knowledge and John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" / There is this scene in the movie when he is asked, after the tree dies, making his biosphere bubble shrunk and the space traveler hopeless, by both Izzi and Queen Isabella: "could you prevail?" "I don’t know, I’ve tried, but I don’t….
This bit reminds me of John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" and the kind of reading Stanley Fishes has had in his "Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power"."