Review of Labyrinth (1986) by Badfantasyrx — 21 Sep 2016
Labyrinth.
Jareth: I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.
Jareth: You remind me of the babe.
Goblin: What babe?
Jareth: The babe with the power.
Goblin: What power?
Jareth: The power ofLabyrinth.
Jareth: I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.
Jareth: You remind me of the babe.
Goblin: What babe?
Jareth: The babe with the power.
Goblin: What power?
Jareth: The power of voodoo.
Goblin: Who do?
Jareth: You do.
Goblin: Do what?
Jareth: Remind me of the babe.
She's a girl who's mad at her mother's second marriage, and the child who took her place- her baby half brother. He's the Goblin King, the granter of wishes that are best forgotten. The setting is allegory and the journey, life.
Sarah is young, impetuous and tired of the restrictions that society places on teenagers to keep them from growing up too fast. Her parents are happy, modern and determined to make a blended family within the new religious framework for the nineteen nineties- where the home is still paramount, but the tradition of Adam and Eve, until death do we part, has been replaced by the more Wiccan concept of handfasting. She's a product of this world and, ultimately, represents the generation that will finally bring it together.
The story weaves like a Celtic trinity knot, ending where it begins as she puzzles and discovers her way through the Labyrinth of life, experiencing the promises of Jareth, the Goblin King and eventually seeing through the illusions around her and finding her way back to both reality and wonder. Does she keep the magic, lose her brother and allow Jareth a way into her life? Or does she grow up, learn to see through the walls around her and manage to find the strength to have it all?
Tatianna Anne Jindra.
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From water, flung into being.
Emerging from no when, then, the Labyrinth.
Shaped from star dirt, all that matters.
The joy or sorrow of its wending Gordian Knot.
Flowing from what we see in the child’s mouth.
Pushing an ever growing burden of memory before.
Allusion, both ways.
No Hob to trick, instead a Swan.
A shower of rings and things,.
The promises of a Goblin King,.
Of the devil, having stolen the unicorn’s horn.
This review of Labyrinth (1986) was written by Badfantasyrx on 21 Sep 2016.
Labyrinth has generally received positive reviews.
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