Cyre2067
The Living Force
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/
Heh watched this the other night with some friends and couldn't get over the esoteric references.
First of all, Jareth is totally a hyperdimensional being. He can teleport around, turn into animals, create pocket realities that serve as illusions for any human he wishes to throw into one, all under the pretext of "magic". He control's an army of goblins, and commands them as he wishes. They seem to follow him out of fear. He uses magic on the protagonist in the form of a poisoned peach to put her asleep and make her forget who she is and why she's really in the labyrinth. I also thought how the labyrinth is a parallel to our reality and how we're wandering in a maze that we can only get through if we find friends to guide us. There's another part, one of the creatures that joins Sarah (the protagonist) can roar/sing and make rocks move. He can command huge boulders too, just by using his voice - sound familiar? He promises to give her anything she wants at the end, but when she refuses all she has to beat him is to realize that she is stronger then he and he "has no power" over her. All in all for a rewatch of an 80s flick with David Bowie busting into song every 20 minutes it's a pretty deep film.
Definately reccomend it if you havent seen it recently.
Also worth note - when i thought about posting this message i kept getting sidetracked by seemingly innocuous things and each time i forgot i was going to post! Obviously i remembered after 4 or 5 sidetrackings... interesting this flyer's mind bit.
Heh watched this the other night with some friends and couldn't get over the esoteric references.
First of all, Jareth is totally a hyperdimensional being. He can teleport around, turn into animals, create pocket realities that serve as illusions for any human he wishes to throw into one, all under the pretext of "magic". He control's an army of goblins, and commands them as he wishes. They seem to follow him out of fear. He uses magic on the protagonist in the form of a poisoned peach to put her asleep and make her forget who she is and why she's really in the labyrinth. I also thought how the labyrinth is a parallel to our reality and how we're wandering in a maze that we can only get through if we find friends to guide us. There's another part, one of the creatures that joins Sarah (the protagonist) can roar/sing and make rocks move. He can command huge boulders too, just by using his voice - sound familiar? He promises to give her anything she wants at the end, but when she refuses all she has to beat him is to realize that she is stronger then he and he "has no power" over her. All in all for a rewatch of an 80s flick with David Bowie busting into song every 20 minutes it's a pretty deep film.
Definately reccomend it if you havent seen it recently.
Also worth note - when i thought about posting this message i kept getting sidetracked by seemingly innocuous things and each time i forgot i was going to post! Obviously i remembered after 4 or 5 sidetrackings... interesting this flyer's mind bit.