Samsara
The cycle of death and rebirth driven by karma and craving, from which liberation is sought.
Samsara is the wheel of cyclic existence — birth, death, and rebirth driven by karma (action) and tanha (craving). It is not a place but a mode of being characterized by suffering (dukkha) and impermanence. The goal of Buddhist practice is liberation from samsara, not through escape but through seeing through the illusion of a separate self that could be trapped. In film, samsara appears as characters caught in loops they cannot escape: repeating the same mistakes, trapped in cycles of violence or desire, unable to break free until they see clearly.