Sunday, September 9, 2007
stardust & Immortality
So I just watched the movie "Stardust", and it's a fantastic grownup fairy tale that has all the elements of a cliched love story with a mix of fantasy and adventure. But as I was watching the movie I began to think about what it would be like to have immortality... many people search for it and it's the makes for tales of legends and epics, Ponce De Leon of Spain went on a search for the fountain of youth and led him to Florida, and kind of ironic that it's the top state for many people to retire, perhaps the mystery of the fountain of youth is what draws people towards that state, the idea that by being closer to the myth they can discover their youth in the last few years of their life, whatever it is, I think it's meaningless without having someone to share it with and it's the same view that was expressed in the movie. I'm also hesitant at bringing up a movie called, "The Fountain", because it was a very strange visual drama that just had me confused and in a trance for the couple of hours I spent trying to figure out what was happening... regardless, in that movie, the female lead, Izzi tells her husband the story of the golden nebula describing it as Xibalba, or the Mayan underworld. And it is this nebula that they must reach to find their immortality in death. But in this movie Tommy also searches for the fountain of youth, but without Izzi immortality is meaningless. Ok, so enough of my horrible description or tragic interpretation of the movie, I think immortality is meaningless unless you find something that you can love and enjoy and cherish when you live forever, for people who seek immortality for power so that they can destroy others I think it's a waste, why take other lives and be selfish because your cannot be taken. Immortality should be about life, it means eternal life, and death is something that should not be known whether it's your own or another's. So I would think immortality is wonderful if you can find something that you can love during your eternal life.
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Hi. I haven't seen "Stardust" yet. But it sounds like a good movie. I agree with your theory on why people retire to Florida. Amazingly I was just saying the same thing yesterday! I saw The Fountain and thought it was a great movie! My interpretation is: Tomas and Queen Isabella are reincarnated as Tommy and Izzi. The tree in the space bubble is the tree Tommy planted over Izzi's grave. The tree has immortality and the small pieces of bark Tommy eats allow him to live forever. But you're right. If living forever means sitting in a space bubble applying tattoos to your arms and talking to a tree, then no thank you. But I thought the movie was very well done, and the music was absolutely beautiful, don't you think?
Thanks for posting about these movies.
Well at first when I saw the ending of the movie, I was quite dumfounded at what just happend, perhaps I was expecting it to not end in the way that it did, or the ending was just unexpected or maybe just not enough to fulfill my idea of an ending for that move, but when I think about the movie as a whole the ending eventually does make sense. And the music was also amazing, I find it very inspiring whenever I hear a great piece of music, it's too bad you have so many pop stars making music that makes you want to shut off your ears and scream.
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