Continued:
Hey, here is a real NES fan...
In class we had a reading assignment to read a book from an author that is not American. I choose a German author, Micheal Ende.The minute I started reading descriptions of Falkor, Moon Child, AURYN, the Ivory Tower, The mangolia Blossom etc. My mother "stole" my book when I was sleeping. The book made me feel like I was living inside Fantastica. When bastian hit Atreyu I felt the pain, when Bastian flew on Falkor I felt like I too was flying above the clouds and when Grogoman The Many Colored death jumped from sand dune to sand dune the room seemed to change colors every time he leaped to a different dune. Even in my dreams "The Neverending Story" is involved: Meggie from "Inkheart" & "Inkspel" reads herself into Fantastica. What I am trying to say is "The Neverending Story" is an amazing book and I intend to see the movie and even though I just read the book two weeks ago, it seems like an old friend.
From: Zoe A. Kibbelaar
Thanks Zoe...
Seeing the Real Neverending Story Big Picture
Everybody reads the story in a too literal way. I'm trying to explain that Ende wasn't only talking about imagination and all that Disney-like stuff, as said in the last comment. He talks about literary creation, about knowing your own self and give life a sense. He didn't want us to "believe in faeries" he wanted us to think, to feel. The Neverending Story tells love is in human nature because we imagine it, but we have to make real somehow what we imagine to make the world not to repeat itself again and again. It's the interaction between macrocosmos and microcosmos. Human will/sense of life and fantasies/dreams are bound, they make each other possible, that's what Auryn (the Alchemical Wedding, the Ouroboros) represents. That's my opinion, but, anyway, nobody goes beyond the superficial. Somebody could have a different interpretation, but trascending the naive, gullible point of view of the film.
From Prinzessin Momo
Thanks for the reminder of what is most important in life