JulianApostate

You may wonder who Hugh Grant really is in this movie? Hugh Grant is a character who creates his world (symbolized by the wooden labyrinth). He behaves like God - he tells his "prophets" what they are to say to others. Yet the prophets, all women (thus a caricature of biblical prophets, who are generally men, even if talmudic Judaism sees them as women too) are imprisoned by him. That excludes him being a devil, who as we know, is very partial to women. Yet he clearly is not a good God too.

Creativity, control, imprisonment, dislike of women - that are known features of that evil god, known as Demiurge, and introduced by Plato. Towards Demiurge points also the otherwise absurd "simulation theory" as who would simulate this world for us ...?

In some sense, the "prophets" are living in a Platonic cave, where the only light comes from Demiurge Reed (interestingly, only he is able to bring fire there, not the Mormon sisters with matchsticks, who, by the power of this comparison, do not live in light/truth), who sells some truth after all (he says that his "prophets" do not want to leave this place, exactly like the Platonic dwellers of the cave). It is regrettable that this piece of truth exposed by Reed- similarities in religions point to the kernel of truth at the beginning of all religious iterations - is not really discussed here.

Also the ending, which could be seen as rebirth can be perhaps better interpreted as leaving the Platonic cave.