So this movie is about growing up?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Labyrinth
cooler56 — 10 years ago(February 08, 2016 04:29 PM)
This movie is obviously about growing up. It becomes apparent in the end, when Sarah starts to put her stuff away in the drawer. She called the stuff "junk" earlier in the film. In the beginning of the film, she is playing dress-up and acting out her fantasies from the book she is reading. Her mother chides her for doing so, her Dad says that girls her age are already on dates.
The Goblin King is Sarah's ideal lover. He is mature, dark, mysterious, gentlemanly. A lot like Bram Stoker's Dracula. She always forgets the line "you have no power over me" because she subconsciously does not believe that. Until the end, when she makes the realization that she has to stop living in her imagination and start living in the real world. She subconsciously makes up a scenario where her brother gets kidnapped by the Goblin King so she can deal with her vivid imagination and start growing up and prioritizing.
What we see in her room is evidence of her extreme introversion and escapism. The toys, the decor, etc. It is all that of a girl's. However she chooses to allow the possibility of her "friends" to stay around, but who knows what she will believe in 10 years from now. This movie is clearly about the painful, but necessary transition of growing up and putting behind your childhood, so you can move on with life. -
rockmt — 10 years ago(February 21, 2016 10:25 AM)
The movie was about growing up. In addition to all the things you said (which I agree with except for the part about Jareth being Sarah's ideal lover which I vigorously disagree), don't forget that the main premise for the movie was that Sarah wished her brother to be taken away from her which is nearly as bad as wishing him dead. Only an immature brat could wish something like that without first thinking. Imagine if Sarah failed, what would her parents have said. She'd have to hide her face in complete shame.
The manga sequel Return to Labyrinth answers your last two sentences. Keep a box of tissues and/or some aspirin handy as you read though because if the manga has the same effect on you as it had on me, you'd be sure to want to cry or gnash your teeth at some point. -
Moonlighty — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 11:16 AM)
So this movie is about growing up?
This movie is obviously about growing up.
Sort of ruined your own thread answering your own question with "obviously."Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
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mjn-seifer — 10 years ago(February 28, 2016 01:04 PM)
However she chooses to allow the possibility of her "friends" to stay around, but who knows what she will believe in 10 years from now. This movie is clearly about the painful, but necessary transition of growing up and putting behind your childhood, so you can move on with life.
I take the ending to mean; we should grow up, and face the real world, but we should also keep our childhood memories alive, and our love of fantasy and the like. We shouldn't live completely in it like we would try to as kids, but still look at it fondly, and remember what it was like for us when we were younger, and we "believed" in things like this.
Like a mature adult, with a full adult life and possibly even a job, can still sit back and watch a movie or TV show they loved as a kid, and enjoy them. Growing up doesn't mean you have to leave them behind, it just means you have to face the real world more. -
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ZakkWyldeMyLittlePony — 9 years ago(September 11, 2016 05:21 PM)
If this movie is about growing up, I can see why Michael Wacko Jacko Jackson didn't do this film as the Goblin King. He was too much of a spoiled man child with the Peter Pan mentality.
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