“The Spirit” Didn’t Move Me
Last night, I saw the new movie “The Spirit,” based on Will Eisner’s comic books and I just didn’t get it. At first, when I saw the Octopus’s henchmen — Pathos, Ethos, Logos — I thought, okay, this might be interesting symbolically. Three methods of persuasion and all that.
The movie portrayed death as a female water nymph and I thought, oh, she represents the destructive aspect of Spirit’s anima, etc. But then the whole thing just fell apart for me. It got so campy and inanely silly with the Samuel-L.-Jackson-dressed-up-as-Hitler bit that I couldn’t take it seriously on a comedic or symbolic level. I just can’t connect the symbolic dots. And maybe I’m not supposed to.
Can anyone out there who is familiar with the comic books (which I’m not) please tell me if I am trying to find some psychological diamond in what is intended to be nothing more than flickos dumbos?
– Writeye
Posted on December 28th, 2008 under Movies • Tags: "The Spirit" movie. • 
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January 24th, 2009 at 8:58 am
I’m not saying that this is biblical, but it does portray the embodiment of evil, the course of mankind and the Ideals we hold so close. What we were to what we are all in extreme contrast.
Unless you step out of what you think life is and really question why?… well let’s just say it will always be a mystery.
ying yang, the capacity for love and pride, the good in the bad and the bad in the good, Humility and Supremacy. Working together since the dawn of time to stand the test of time.
the real question is how far down the rabbit hole do you wanna go! Good day to you!
January 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Mac,
You make several good points — and if I can just get past how nearly slapstick silly I thought the movie was, I can see it stripped down to a classic tale of good against evil.