I watched The Last Unicorn again today with bro db, mel, pam, prisc and michelle. While here I imply that we watched it together, it was more like me gawping at the screen while everyone said "Claire... Claire.... It's your turn...." in varying degrees of patience and loudness, because we were all playing the Game of Life. I don't know why it still has such an impact on me, I keep seeing new things in it. Today it was the part where the unicorn, now human, begs the magician not to turn her back, because she wants to marry Lir, but she is changed back anyway, and at that moment when she is encased with the light of his magic, she looks so frail and lost, caught up in the inevitability of her own existence, like all of us actually. It was so awful i wanted to cry - there are so many things i wish i didn't have to be too, but somehow i always get changed back to the default.
I have yet to find anyone to love that movie as much as i do, which is a bit sad, because unlike star wars and lotr (mel is my fellow buff) or weird stuff like edward scissorhands (vivienne and ling!) i cannot gush about it with anyone, and any opportunity to do some indulgent gushing over something you really like halves some of the joy.
my sister is going to secondary school tomorrow! i feel mixed pride and surprise and lots of other sisterly things.
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