00:00Well, Japanese people love your films, especially Travel, Super, I mean, sorry, Space Travel 2001.
00:10Yeah.
00:11And, but people are wondering that what is the meaning of Lachshin?
00:18You know, the old man who are, you know, lying on the bed in a very old style house.
00:27Yeah.
00:28And, could you give us an answer?
00:32I've tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out, because when you, when you just say the
00:41ideas, they sound foolish, whereas if they're dramatized, one feels it.
00:47But I'll try. I mean, the idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by godlike entities, creatures
00:58of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form.
01:03And they put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo and to study him.
01:12And he spends, his whole life passes from that point on in that room and he has no sense of
01:18time.
01:20It just seems to happen as it does in the film.
01:23And, um, they choose this room, which is, uh, a very, uh, inaccurate, uh, replica of, uh, French architecture.
01:35Deliberately so inaccurate because, uh, you know, one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might
01:43think was pretty, but, um, weren't quite sure.
01:45Just as we aren't quite sure what to do in zoos with, with animals to, uh, try to give them
01:55what we think is their natural, uh, you know, environment.
01:59And, um, anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many, uh, myths of all cultures in
02:08the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to, um, Earth.
02:15Um, you know, um, you know, uh, transformed and, and made, um, you know, into some sort of superman.
02:25Uh, and we, uh, we have to only guess what happens when he goes back.
02:29Um, it is, uh, the pattern of a great deal of mythology.
02:34And that was what we were trying to, uh, suggest.
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