the golden compass

The Golden Compass and how it had strung a myriad of controversies.

I happened to see the movie last night with my friends, and it doesn’t really promote atheism or whatever, it is a fictional story, more like the Chronicles of Narnia, with talking animals as your souls or ‘daemons’ as what they call it in the movie.

There is this belief that all human beings have their corresponding daemons, and if they die, their daemons die along with them. The ability of their daemons to morph into something, into a different animal is entirely based on their human counterpart – their strength, their experiences account for what their daemon can turn into. What the daemons feel, their human counterparts feel it too!

And this talk about ‘dust’… I still pretty much didn’t get it… was dust the portal to another world or parallel universe? And why does is it best unmentioned? Hmm… I wonder… It could be that people tend to get greedy over power which would lead to manipulation and all that politics. You know… the fear of having evil rule over the world or the entire universe for that matter.

Why has the movie attracted such controversy? Well, for one thing there wasn’t any mention of a higher being and the idea that your soul is personified with an animal that you can actually talk to and interact with… it is a mere observation, but fiction is still fiction… those are the kind of stories you tell your children before they go to sleep – just like stories of Peter Pan and Neverland, wherein goodness still reigns amidst all the chaos and evil randomness.

After the movie, my friend told me how I was so talkative while watching the movie… Hmm… I was? Hahaha! According to her, my future dates should definitely include movies coz it is the only time I get to talk a whole lot! I didn’t realize that I was such a chatterbox, but truth be told I like to analyze movies, I think I have gotten that habit from my brother… we just love to criticize and resolve mysteries or loopholes in movies, I also like to criticize how the movie is done, the special effects and stuff…

Back to the movie itself,  I like the polar bear, I actually want one! Prince Iorek (not Urich! woops, my bad!) is such a cute polar bear! Hahaha! And the part where he slapped the other polar bear king where it’s jaw literally removed itself from its entire face! I loved it! Hahaha! And Serafina, the queen of the witches, she is a superb archer too! At first I thought she's evil, but she's not… she's actually a good witch. But the movie was open-ended, lots of questions were still formulating in my head, and then there goes the credits… poof! The End… could there be a sequel? I wonder…