Did enemy of all that is good in film Michael Bay luck into a story that illustrates basic Hindu thought? The folk at Overthinking It make an interesting case for it.
Unlike Western Abrahamic religions, Hinduism is not a single, unified narrative. Instead, the holy texts of Hindu tradition offer a cloud of overlapping, contradictory or unrelated puranas (stories) populated by hundreds of characters of varying degrees of divinity. While certain characters might be incredibly important to one local tradition or another, three of the most important deities in Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) appear in the texts of almost all regions. In the numerous creation stories of Hinduism, these three gods compose the trimurti, a trinity responsible for the creation, preservation and eventual destruction of the universe.
I don’t want to give the wrong impression and suggest that the writer of this piece thinks Michael Bay is anything other than an explosion-happy disaster of a filmmaker. Rather, this seems to be a case of a squirrel lucking into a very small nut in an apocalyptic wasteland inhabited by robot aliens with huge exploding breasts, which may be his next project for all I know.
