it is only in the Christo - centric area
of a noogenetic Universe that it [
love] is released in the pure state and so displays its
astonishing power to transform everything and replace everything... A current
of love is all at once released, to spread over the whole breadth and depth
of the World; and this it does not as though it were some super-added warmth or fragrance, but as a fundamental essence that will metamorphose all things, assimilate and take the
place of all.94
Jason Segel is Will, the son
of Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) who made the
astonishing discovery in the first
place, and he falls in
love with Rooney Mara's Isla, a woman whose past is tinged with tragedy.