Moulin Rouge is the next artifact that I am going to blog about. If I have watched this earlier, I would’ve chosen this as my final project artifact but was too late to change it, so I chose to at least blog about this magnificent movie that clearly describe what the kingdom and the empire to us human beings in this day.
The plot takes place in the late 1890s, when a young writer moves to the district of Paris to join the Bohemian revolution. But as he writes he realizes he didn’t know how love felt and later on falls in love with a beautiful courtesan also the star of the legendary Moulin Rouge who dreams to become an actor one day. And as he is given a chance to introduce his musical play to her he is misunderstood to be the Duke who later on is obsessed about her. Satin and Christian falls into a forbidden affair with each other and later they both decide let go of everything they have for love but as they get ready, she is told that she was dying. And as soon as she heard this, she decides not to go on with the, “Forbidden love-Romeo and Juliet act.
Satin and her world were represented as the world of the empire. The idea of empire in the movie had the characteristics of materialism, class, status, name, fame glam and sin. And in the earlier part of the movie she performs a song that talks about how diamonds are a girl’s best friend. She also talks about her dream of becoming rich and famous which was possible with the Duke’s help. But later on chooses something of the kingdom rather than the things of the empire. She chose love. She could’ve gotten everything she dreamed of but instead chose what her heart longed for, Christian.
In one of the scene as she packs up and gets ready to run away she says to her dad, “You always made me believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me!” As I heard this script I was suddenly once again alerted that this could be like the advertisements that influence what we desire. Nowadays we are so strongly influenced by media, picture, advertisements and ect…When we all know that love is the greatest thing as the they also quote in this movie, “The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” Why do we all feel and long for more than what the kingdom has to offer, even though we know that things of the empire are just temporary things that last only through our lifetime? How could we avoid it?
i wrote it first on my worddocument and pasted it here and it turned out this way so.I tried to fix it but cant.......so just dont mind the different settings of writtings please=]]]
ReplyDeleteMoulin Rouge is certainly an interesting pop culture artifact, especially given how many other artifacts (particularly pop songs) are brought into the story of the film.
ReplyDeleteSomething to be careful with when analyzing films is to not equate the opposite of imperial circumstances with the kingdom. While this may be true, it's often the case that we're simply being offered a slightly different version of the same imperial reality. I haven't seen the film in quite some time, but I'm not sure if I'd qualify Christian and Satin's love as kingdom-oriented.
Perhaps if we'd just watched the film together, you could convince me otherwise -- which indicates the importance of community in the discernment process.
Nice work, Sharon!