I'm not even gonna acknowledge how long its been. I just gonna side step the fact that the last blog entry we did was in the beginning of May. And i'm also not gonna mention the fact that we are the worst bloggers in the history of blogging.
I wanted to pick out a movie...and break it apart for you...and tell you how much it means to me. Tell you what it represents and how it changes my way of thinking. I'm in that kind of artistic type mood in that i want to think deeply and complexly about something. I wanted it to be this fantastical usage of words that would prove to you and to our reader(s) how i could have the potential one day to write a book about something important and eye opening. I have this dreamer's dream of touching souls and hearts with my words, or my photography, or my opinions, or my art. I like to dream big yet, i am small. My loves and my abilities sometimes feel a lot bigger than me. And my actual ability to attain these things that i dream about can sometimes seem so.....nonexistent.
I am watching The Princess Bride. I picked this one to bullshit my deep and complex rhetoric(is this the correct usage of this? haha!), because it didnt seem that i would have to work that hard. This movie is not that complex...in fact everything that makes is special and meaningful is right on the surface.
1. This film is about love. Duh! Buttercup and Wesley, one of the greatest love stories ever. They lost each other for a time, but always believed that they be reunited. Like Wesley says "death cannot stop true love, all it can do is delay it for a while". Even when Buttercup thought Wesley was dead, she swore never to love again. Which seems kind of sad and almost pathetic, i mean come on woman, move on at SOME point! But, it just shows how deeply she loved him. And even when they found their way back to each other she knew that he was the one for her, she always knew. I mean she purposefully threw herself off of a hill and rolled down it for him! Hitting rocks along the way. THAT'S love!
2. This film is about courage. Climbing a billion foot wall? Uh..yea...courage. Fighting for your woman. Aiming to avenge your fathers death by killing the man who killed him. Venturing into the Fire Swanp. Fighting big ass rats. All take courage. Anything that takes you out of your comfort zone, anything that breaks your spirit and forces you to live through each day, anything that makes you question yourself takes courage. We should all strive to be brave everyday. I wish i was.
3. This film is about confidence. Did you ever notice how very self aware and self confident each character is? Everyone is very confident in their craft. Sword fighting, cleverness, throwing rocks, insulting prince's, sucking life out of someone with a machine, jumping from a window. No one seems to second guess themselves. Wesley has to know that he got lucky choaking Fessik unconscious. Like Fessik said " Its not my fault being the biggest and the strongest...i dont even exercise." But Wesley kept at it...he had the confidence that he could eventually wear him out and move on to rescuing his love. Except for Vizzini, he thinks is he a genius, but he is a great fool. ha!
4. Humperdink......
I'm all out of bullshitting. I think i have made my point.
Well, i hope this had been insightful, and has made you think about.....life...for a second. ha!
So long, ya dumbass.
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