No One Gets Left Behind
It is known far and wide that I blubber like a baby when ever I watch Lilo and Stitch. The theme of family sticking together really gets to me. And lately it has spilled over into other films with that theme. Tonight it was A Little Princess and The Barbarian Invasions.
Why does that theme get to me? Maybe its the ups and downs of my family life in the past? Maybe it was my family being there for my brother through a rough patch? I really can't say, but family really is a wonderful thing. But from here on out please don't quote that line from Lilo and Stitch or I'll tear up.
posted by ripvanruben @ 7/18/2004
4 Comments:
Dude, Sprizee. You need to see Lilo and Stitch post haste to see what i'm driving at.
BTW that was my sencond post in a week discussing man-tears. No more of that! More posts about beer, sports, and hot chicks! Uh-huh yeah right...
Family togetherness as portrayed in The Dreamers did was not exactly heart warming ;-) Great film about youth and dreams. I liked it a lot lot more than I expected too. 8 out of 10!
Barbarian Invasions was really fantastic. You are right it isn't mainly about family. It also had more expansive defintion of family too. Its not just blood relations its your friends too. I really loved the fact the film was so unsentimental yet not crass.
I've been trying to figure out what point Bertolucci or the writer is trying to make with The Dreamers. Is he being critical of those 60s dreamers, or is he just creating an honest (if somewhat exaggerated) portrayal of them? He definitely wants us to identify with them or like them to an extent, but there's no doubt that he is being critical of the twins too.
I think the point Bertolucci was trying to make was that idealism is a beautiful thing but it is fragile and easily warped or destroyed. Its a point that comes up in many of his films especially 1900 and also The Last Emperor.
I think he much more indentifies with Michael Pitt's character who was idealistic but realistic and grounded and ready to walk away when things get too weird. The twins are special and wonderful in their way yet overly detatched from reality and in the end that idealism fails him. I think that last seen reiterates this. We should talk about this offline i have much more to say :-)
Leave no man behind.
Also the tagline from Blackhawk Down.
Its US military, but mostly Marines, I believe.
They promise to each other to leave no man behind, dead or alive. Its supposed to make them tougher see. You basically promise to go into the worst situations, outnumbered and surrounded 20-to-1 and swear loyalty to the person right next to you.
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