I believe it because I want to believe it
Apr. 12th, 2006 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apparentparadoxMark & I went to see Lost Horizon at the Stanford Theatre.
One thing that continually ran around the back of my mind while watching the movie was trying to figure out why George Conway (the brother) can't be happy in Shangri-La. Is it because he depends on his big brother to give him importance & meaning? Does he have more from the outside world pulling him back (apparently, a fiance -- some reference to so-and-so's father getting him a position, and apparently a new girlfriend) while the others have little to go home to? Or is it just the basic distrust of things he doesn't understand and the unwillingness to expand his own horizons?
Of course, I wondered why Maria wanted to leave, but her character isn't developed at all, so there wasn't much to ponder.
It is pretty clear, though, that not everyone wants the same "paradise".
Aside from the lack of high-speed internet connection, Shangri-La seemed like a pretty neat place. But, then it was 1937, and I'm sure that they have DSL by now.
One thing that continually ran around the back of my mind while watching the movie was trying to figure out why George Conway (the brother) can't be happy in Shangri-La. Is it because he depends on his big brother to give him importance & meaning? Does he have more from the outside world pulling him back (apparently, a fiance -- some reference to so-and-so's father getting him a position, and apparently a new girlfriend) while the others have little to go home to? Or is it just the basic distrust of things he doesn't understand and the unwillingness to expand his own horizons?
Of course, I wondered why Maria wanted to leave, but her character isn't developed at all, so there wasn't much to ponder.
It is pretty clear, though, that not everyone wants the same "paradise".
Aside from the lack of high-speed internet connection, Shangri-La seemed like a pretty neat place. But, then it was 1937, and I'm sure that they have DSL by now.