Boy, it has been a long time since I last saw this movie and even seems like even longer since I really thought abouts its contents. The trailer on the imdb.com website defintely isn't full of spoilers and I'm curious how much I'll remember based on its contents. And although it is a narrative commonly read in some courses that examine English literary works. I personally can't recall whether the written form of this narrative was read more throughly by myself throughout my academic history.
Many movie reproductions of novels do not match the plotline of the original text it is derived from in certain details of the way the narrative ends up portrayed in the movie reiteration. This can be especially true in certain contexts and if produced by certain industries such as those in "Hollywood". It is also somewhat natural that people making these decisions regarding the plot are more audience centred in their decision making on what they think will produce the most audience members and revenue and we live in a very consumer focused society that very much likes to sell into people's natural desires to things like sex.
Without yet having viewed other sources regarding the plot of this narrative, there are some plot development points I personally am able to recall. These include when Finn finds out the identity of his financial benefactor who also got him involved in gentleman's training, likely because he wanted to help him out in his pursuit of Estella when he was closer in physical proximity during that phase of Finn's life. Finn wanting to be with Estella throughout most of his life is also another major plot point of this narrative. The benefactor turns out to be the very same person Finn showed kindness to who needed some urgent assistance to help him escape from what Arthur Lustig considers to be his wrongful imprisonment.
Because of our English usage of the word, we often don't perceive of "erotic love", the way the ancient Greeks used the wording to describe romance in the same way they did. However, through this lens, I would also assert that the narrative's two main characters are also the personification of romance and wealth.
Based on the historical setting of some of these narratives, it would seem that the accumation of possessions and "wealth" and the marketing that these type of lifestyles are ideal has been going on for a long time, consider the following bible passage:
Luke 12:13-21, NIV The Parable of the Rich Fool 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2012&version=NIV]
The famous Jesus of Narazeth was frequently advocating that being "rich toward God" had little to do with how much affluence once has in life. And although if you've read some of the other entries in this webpage you will know I often draw parallels between movies and other narratives with scripture and aspects of the Christian life.
Finn's line I quoted as the title for this entry is the initial concept I wanted to discuss initially when it comes to the pursuit of financial providences. Perhaps not everyone in the audience shares his views. Others may try to increase and improve their finances not for trying to compete financially with his main love interest's competition in the narrative, but to indulge other interests.
Similar to other western romance narratives to address also this aspect of capitalist cultures that there is some tension between love for the other person and love for a certain minimum level of financial stability and other worldly passions that can be pursued with financial means in place. In this case, Finn also started out as what one might call a rat-scallion and then he had an experience analogous to the narrative found in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew where he received some training in how to be a proper “gentleman”.
Sadly, I feel that some Christians also live with this misconception that has roots formed from a performance emphasizing culture that we can apply conditions to what is meant to be an unconditional loving relationship with our loving heavenly Father. Well let’s try to address one topic at a time. Personally, after reading such scripture such as Genesis 1–Genesis 2 and 1 Corinthians 15, I don’t really believe we should try to apply what we consider to be our human understanding of “gender traits” to our almighty God. That is, we really shouldn’t apply stereotypes we might think are typical of a male human towards our infinite God. I personally believe when God declared in Genesis that we are made in “our image” that we ought *NOT* to solely think of “Jesus” as being a man because the Father happened to choose the gender that God felt was the most appropriate for the task at hand. I also feel Christianity has done heavenly love’s a bit of a disservice if we overly compare spousal love to Christ’s love for us. In no means trying to invalidate God’s love given to spouses; but when it comes to the details I think all spouses know that their relationship with their spouse does come up short at times relative to God’s heavenly love. Although I personally am not residing with a spouse, I confess that my own human relationships in other contexts we may universally simplify as “love”.
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Take your meds and see a psychiatrist. You need help
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