What emerges from Ship of Theseus is a body where the Other resides. What does it mean ethically to carry this Other in your body? How does it reflect back upon the self? Body as the 'Ship of Theseus' forms a chain, opening itself to the human as well as the non-human Other and therein lies its communal possibility.
Though I didn't like the individual stories that much and thought they were verbose, if not tendentious at times, I did appreciate the way they were corporeally brought together at the end. I loved the stellar finale with an onto-speleological Platonism as it entered into the inanimate body of nature--a crevice externalised where the ethical Other can finally be captured, but only as a shadow.
One of the most philosophical films of recent times. Thanks Subhankar Bhattacharya for reminding me of it.
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