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movie review - Stardust

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.06.18

This is a good fantasy movie about a star that falls to Earth in the form of a young woman. She's not too happy at this turn of events and understandably reacts poorly when a human shows up and takes her prisoner. This in-over-his-head captor is not alone in seeking the star, as she has properties much desired by parties such as three wicked sister witches and competing princes vying for a kingdom's crown. The story's clever and original, the cast is superb and their acting is as expected. The plot is quite strong for something of this nature, and actually means something for once.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner