In
many respects, adventure is a romantic rebuttal to the more industrialized
objective form, which is inquiry.
It retains the imagination, magic, and nature that are often stripped
from films based in pure inquiry.
Emotion is lost when only reason is allowed to remain, just as nature is
lost in lieu of mechanical and industrial growth. Romanticism is the revival of
the emotional through nature. Interestingly, inquiry often leads to
adventure. In the comic, “Tintin
in Tibet,” Tintin has a dream that raises an important question: do I need to
save my friend. This inquiry
becomes so forefront and strong in his mind that he cannot ignore it, which
starts the adventure of trying to find his friend Change. Change was saved by Bigfoot, he said “I
tell you, Tintin, from the way he took care of me, I couldn't help wondering
if, deep down, he hadn't a human soul.”
This story brings up the topic of what is the line between humanity and
nature, or if there is a line at all.
The
premise to the film, “Time Bandits,” is based in Inquiry: what if you could use
a map to travel through space and time.
Right off the bat, nature is brought back into the equation by the fact
that they are using a map. Maps are made so that we can navigate nature and her
mysteries. Also, the villain of
this film is in love with the idea of advance technology and computers. He even
has a metal tube attached to his head. He relies on technology and wishes it to
take over everything. Another connection
with nature is where the group of bandits came from. They were a crew that
created bushes and trees for the creation of Earth. They tried to escape that job, but in the end they had to
return because being burglars was just not in their nature. Last, I’m not so sure about their
depiction of “God” in this film. Normally God is bright, pure, and noble; he is
the creator of all things. In this
film “God” is dressed and presented as the boss: a pompous capitalist that only
cares about what he wants to do and not how it affects the world. To be honest, I thought it was unusual
for them to portray him this way. It felt out of place. I think they were trying to take the
audience by surprise instead of giving him deeper symbolic meaning.
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