To ponder the value of humanity, of hope and fear, of flaws and strength, of soul and intellect, of losses and gains, and of damnation and redemption.
Great. The film was great and I'll recommend anyone who would listen and have the time to go watch it. I don't think the creator of the film was thinking about psychology when making the film, but it does reminds me of the Enneagram and the Enneatypes. It ties it in for me beyond the basic 9 archetypal characters. The one dominant personality for each burlap humanoid and the different facets in the manifestation of that personality corresponds to the 9 levels in each enneatype.
Digressing, I feel that we ourselves are our own great piece of work. We are, or should be, constantly working on our own consciousness, our own being and bringing to attention our own liabilities and contributions to our world. Not the world, because I don't see it as a singularity, more like a combination of differing realities that overlap. Though it's safe to say that somewhere, out there, there must be one absolute Truth. Our limitations affect how we perceive it, affecting our own reality. It seems to me, that the goal of this game, then, is to be acutely aware of ourselves and yet transcend beyond ourselves to discover that Truth.
Anyway, my favourite quotes from the movie were from 1 and the Scientist.
1: They've left us nothing. Nothing. Why do we have to right their wrongs? Sometimes a sacrifice must be made.
Scientist: We had such potential. Such promise. But we squandered our gifts... Our world is ending, but life must go on.
Also, if you're interested, here's the Scientist's
Facebook page where you can learn more about the characters and have a bit of the backstory.
