Certainly, Heaven & Earth is a film about the confrontations of two cultures and its values; woman and man, the East and the West: the eternal confrontation of this radical duality, that is not solved at all in this film, and it is not, because the West does not have the solution, and the East does not either.
Kitaro and its music, the beautiful scenery are but a glimpse of what the East has to offer to the West... and the West and specially the American way of life, even though it seems to be the solution for the WOMAN, it is so poor at the end that love becomes a real tragedy.
A great film by Oliver Stone!
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