The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
On one end sits The Comedian and Rorschach. Their emotions control their lives. They act chiefly on the impulse to destroy. The Comedian seems to find pleasure in the pain he inflicts. Rorschach operates with righteous anger seeded in wounds that were inflicted on him a long time ago. (It’s a nice touch that Rorschach has red hair [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday night, I saw the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. As I watched Bond grapple with his grief at loosing his lover Valenka (she died in Casino Royale), I was impressed by how the movie’s creators chose landscapes that mirrored Bond’s emotional state.
As Jungian analyst Marie Louis Von-Franz states in Man and His [...]
“What is it about bats?” I wondered as I sat fixed on “The Dark Knight” last Saturday. Even though I know most bats are not the fang wielding blood suckers most of us have learned to fear from watching Dracula movies, they’re still creepy. There’s something prehistoric and other worldly about them. After all, they [...]
Last weekend I saw Will Smith’s new movie “Hancock.” At first I thought I was watching just another fantasy superhero movie, but as the relationship between between Smith’s character (Hancock) and Charlize Theron’s character (Mary) unfolded, I realized I was watching an aborted “mystical” or “divine” marriage — a failed attempt to bring the archetypal [...]
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