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It works on so many levels!
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14-Feb-2012, 3:26 PM

TheBoost said:

One of the things I love about the movie "Labyrinth" is that it works perfectly on two levels.

  1. It's a child adventure film with magic and goblins.
  2. It's a coming of age story about a girl using her imagination to deal with the loss of her mother, and her own fears of growing up.

 

Either way is equally valid based on the content of the film, and IMHO equally enjoyable.

What other films work perfectly on two (or more) totally different levels of interpretation?

 It happens for so many films and fictional works... not always "perfectly" let's admit.

But I think it depends a lot on your own imagination, your culture and your sensibility. Some film from nowadays are incredibly metaphoric to me, though they don't meant to be, or not openly.

... Actually I think Star Wars (OT) has gone beyond anything his main director meant to put in his story. He doesn't seem to catch it after all these years. It's possible a majority of fans don't get it neither and they just like it, without an explanation.