Resolving Jeepers Creepers
Oct. 4th, 2001 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI have been angry/mad/upset for forty-five minutes straight now. I don't like it. I don't like being angry. Being angry makes the time pass faster. And I like to enjoy my moments.
Saw Jeepers Creepers tonight. Two good friends of mine seem to feel that the movie was unresolved. I didn't think so, and this is why. (Yes, necessarily there will be spoilers, so if you don't want to read them, hit the back button now.)
What is the story? The story is of two college kids who are on a road trip home. Therefore, what is needed for resolution is the ending of their story.
The background for this is a small town with a serial killer.
The plot? These two kids get too intrigued by a body being dumped by someone they've already suspected of being serial-killer-esque.
The climax was when the killer chose one of the kids. That is the pinnacle of the audience member's fright and outrage.
The next scene, which is of the next day, is sunny. That signal alone means that the story is coming to a close.
The end, the image of the eye, is the very end. Of the *kid's* story. *Not* that of the serial killer. He is the backdrop, the catalyst of their separation. He is not the story in and of itself. He is, very simply, a plot device.
As Alan Watts says, we shouldn't be sucking the finger of the hand merely pointing the way.
Now, what about the crows? Yes, as my friend pointed out, crows are carrion eaters. They signify death. Yet, think about the movie _The Crow_. Crows in that movie are not evil; they are ties to those not yet dead and yet not living. In the resolution of the movie, the kid that is left goes outside and looks into the sunlit sky. The very next thing we see is a crow streaking across the sky, and lands outside of where the killer is currently holed up. The crow *is* the kid who he snatched; the crow represents that kid's soul. (That is, if you believe in the concept of souls....)
I thought the movie was good, even though it was predictable. The overall story was predictable. The details are what made the storyline fun. The joy was seeing the plot unfold.
What are my questions of the movie? or, rather, what do I think the movie tries to tell us?
* Believe in your dreams; but also know that dreams of the future cannot be trusted completely.
* Sometimes psychic phenomena are to be believed.
* We make our own destinies.
* Bad things exist. Our danger sense exists for a reason. Go with your gut instinct.
--> Corrolary: Cats may have nine lives, but they die ultimately because they were too curious.
* We must strive not to go tharn. [If you haven't read Watership Down, do so soon.]
* What are we made of? In the end, are we made of fear, or are we made of courage? What part of that yin-yang has the most force behind it? Which of those forces creates the dynamism in that balance?
If there is anything about the movie that is unresolved, it is that above question. And that question can only be answered by ourselves, *for* ourselves.
Saw Jeepers Creepers tonight. Two good friends of mine seem to feel that the movie was unresolved. I didn't think so, and this is why. (Yes, necessarily there will be spoilers, so if you don't want to read them, hit the back button now.)
What is the story? The story is of two college kids who are on a road trip home. Therefore, what is needed for resolution is the ending of their story.
The background for this is a small town with a serial killer.
The plot? These two kids get too intrigued by a body being dumped by someone they've already suspected of being serial-killer-esque.
The climax was when the killer chose one of the kids. That is the pinnacle of the audience member's fright and outrage.
The next scene, which is of the next day, is sunny. That signal alone means that the story is coming to a close.
The end, the image of the eye, is the very end. Of the *kid's* story. *Not* that of the serial killer. He is the backdrop, the catalyst of their separation. He is not the story in and of itself. He is, very simply, a plot device.
As Alan Watts says, we shouldn't be sucking the finger of the hand merely pointing the way.
Now, what about the crows? Yes, as my friend pointed out, crows are carrion eaters. They signify death. Yet, think about the movie _The Crow_. Crows in that movie are not evil; they are ties to those not yet dead and yet not living. In the resolution of the movie, the kid that is left goes outside and looks into the sunlit sky. The very next thing we see is a crow streaking across the sky, and lands outside of where the killer is currently holed up. The crow *is* the kid who he snatched; the crow represents that kid's soul. (That is, if you believe in the concept of souls....)
I thought the movie was good, even though it was predictable. The overall story was predictable. The details are what made the storyline fun. The joy was seeing the plot unfold.
What are my questions of the movie? or, rather, what do I think the movie tries to tell us?
* Believe in your dreams; but also know that dreams of the future cannot be trusted completely.
* Sometimes psychic phenomena are to be believed.
* We make our own destinies.
* Bad things exist. Our danger sense exists for a reason. Go with your gut instinct.
--> Corrolary: Cats may have nine lives, but they die ultimately because they were too curious.
* We must strive not to go tharn. [If you haven't read Watership Down, do so soon.]
* What are we made of? In the end, are we made of fear, or are we made of courage? What part of that yin-yang has the most force behind it? Which of those forces creates the dynamism in that balance?
If there is anything about the movie that is unresolved, it is that above question. And that question can only be answered by ourselves, *for* ourselves.
