I went to see the movie GOLDEN COMPASS this weekend. Loved it. I love that people have such great imagination that it can be put into pictures for me/us to watch, you know that storybook comes to life kind of feeling.
GOLDEN COMPASS is in the genre of Narnia, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter kinda I think. I love the magic of the movie; talking animals and fairiess and cool stuff like that.
So in the movie….it poses the question “What is dust?” Not dust da kine fine dirt, but da “metaphorical” kine - Ok you gotta go watch da movie, or read da book I guess. To me the dust represented ones aura & spirit or the greater power that one believes in, whatever you call THAT of which you believe.
In da movie, everybody has a demon. The demon is not one devil. Demon is what they call their spirit guide or aumakua maybe, somting la dat. The kids demon can change like from bird to cat to racoon or whateva, their’s are changeable. The adults one no can, its just one animal.
I thought thats because the kids are open minded and able to see things from different perspective they aren’t stuck in one frame of mind, black or white, things/thoughts have many colors. But the big people they all set in their ways so thats why their demon just stays as one animal.
So their was the “dominant society” people the Master & all the council and what have you. There were the gypsies, the fairies and the polar bears. I looked at the movie from an ethnic point of view. Or perhaps the haves and the have nots, the us and the them. LOL The gypies where the every day peoples, doing what they gotta do to survive. The fairies were kick ass, they could fly and were great with bows & arrows. The fairies were shooting people makediedead, dang I neva thought of fairies as the war monger types but they were doing their part. The Polar bears were the brawlers. My daughta said they were the Natives because they took away URick da PolaBeas pride, gave him a shitty job and paid him with whiskey so he was a broken down drunken bear till Lyra came along.
Lyra is the name of the maingirl. I suspect there will be a bunch of baby girls named Lyra now. I dunno if dats a good idea to name a local babygrl Lyra, bumbye dey going call her Ly-YA! K-maybe thats just me. LOL
So to me this is one of those everyday modern day old fashion fairy tales. You know good vs evil, the choices you make, the consequences blah blah blah. Anden they live happily ever after….NOT….it ended making you know there’s going to be Part II or some trilogy is gonna happen. I was like “Juss go find yo’Fahdah NOW!” lol
Ok so afta I see da movie I start to read and hear about certain religions think its this that or the other. Yeah yeah yeah. Then I was googling around right, and I come to this message board and it says and I quote “Don’t watch this movie it teaches kids to kill God!”
WHAT?!
Ok then it started to get hilarious because only that one person had that opinion. Maybe its me…. BUT in watching that movie, I did not see any “religious” overtones or undertones, or anything like that. But thats me. How people see God, muchless killing God in that movie is beyond me. Somebody going have to draw me da pic-cha cause I don’t understand that train of thought.
“It teaches kids to kill God?” No, a movie does not do that. The parents maybe, other people yeah, a movie. IF a person has that opinion than don’t go to see it and fo’real don’t take your kids to see it.
I’m thinking I gotta go read the book cause maybe I missed something, “killing God?” where does that comes from? I did not look at the movie as anything “religious” - I just went to see a movie to be entertained and I was. It taught me you can interpet the movie however the hell you want to.
I think you could interepet it more political then religious. The HAVES and the HAVE NOTS, hmmmm. I think, its good vs evil, an everyday theme of life. “Killing God” I’m still baffled by that term. Its like power of suggestion, people telling people this is about “killing God” and so other people - won’t go see it just assuming that persons opinion is FACT. Hellisdatabout?
If one is truely a believer in God then one knows, no movie or story or what have you can or will kill God. There shouldn’t be fear. There should be prayer.
I think God has a sense of humor and he has created creative people to present us with these stories that question our imagination and sense of self. I think he’s laughing at the concept of “killing God.” LOL But hey thats me.
Watch da movie and tell me wotchutink!
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December 16th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
i think the story was that there were 3 books to this “movie” and the 1st book was the movie they made
since it was supposed to be the mellowest of the 3. anyway in the end, the kids kill someone and
then they were left to do as they please. i’m not aware if this is really true or not, but t’ll take Narnia over
this movie any day!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
My daughta told me da contraversy is cause da author is one atheist. Well even so, to me da movie shows there is belief in a higher power or whatever you want to call it.
Oh yeah Narnia II coming out huh? I like the dressed up beavers. LOL
April 26th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
well, it actually goes a bit deeper than that. the so called “demons” are an adaptation of the shaman “power animals”