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Who Needs The Inners?
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A teenage girl of no extraordinary importance is thrust into a land of fairy tale creatures and forced to make her way through an impossible maze. However, she doesn't realize that she's following the same path that all heroes do. Labyrinth is not only a good story, but an example of the hero cycle as well. In the movie, we start with Sarah, the heroine, who is an ordinary girl and loves fairy tale stuff. Unfortunately for her, she has to baby-sit her baby brother Toby one night while her parents go out. After telling her brother a story about a poor girl who had to baby-sit a spoiled brat, she accidentally makes a wish for the goblins to take him away. The call to adventure is when Sarah meets the Goblin King, Jared, and begs to have him back. Jared tells her she must make her way through to the center of the labyrinth and to his castle, in the allotted amount of time (Thirteen hours). If she fails to do so, Toby becomes a goblin and must stay there forever. It's then that Sarah begins to meet her comrades. The first one is what appears to be a dwarf by the name of Hoggle. Hoggle shows her the door into the labyrinth and when she asks him if she should go left or right, he says he wouldn't go either way. This is the first sign that Hoggle is a coward. The crossing point is when Sarah realizes that she can't take anything for granted in the labyrinth. (She couldn't find any turns and figured out she was taking it for granted that the labyrinth went on forever.) Even though she comments on how how unfair it all is and what a horrible place it is, she keeps going in the hopes of saving Toby from his fate. Sarah doesn't start out too well on her tests. The first riddle she has to solve, she gets wrong and ends up in an ubliet. Luckily, Hoggle shows up and knows a way out of the ubliet. Then he reveals that he knows a way out of the labyrinth from here. Sarah gets mad at him for suggesting that she quit now but gives him her bracelet if he'll take her as far as he can into the labyrinth. He agrees but then on their way out, they're confronted by Jared who not only speeds up the time on the clock but reveals that Hoggle works for him. Sarah doesn't see how she can trust him anymore after they get away from Jared and back into the labyrinth. She does anyways and they keep going. They hear a roar and Hoggle runs away even though Sarah had earlier stolen his precious jewels for insurance. The roar turns out to be from Luto, a giant hairy beast with horns. After running off his attackers, Sarah finds out that Luto is quite nice and wouldn't hurt a fly if he didn't have to. They get seperated when Sarah turns her back in a strange forested area they encounter. However, she ends up meeting back up with him and Hoggle in the Land of Eternal Stench. (This is one of Jared's favorite things to threaten Hoggle with.) There they encounter a courageous knight who also happens to be a dog by the name of Sir Didymus and go on. But Hoggle was told by Jared to give Sarah a drugged peach, which she eats right away because she's so hungry. As the other's go on ahead, Sarah faints and goes into a strange dream. She fights her way out of it and through a bout of amensia before the others find her again. Hoggle runs away during a fight scene but later comes back, because he was only trying to find a good way to attack the enemy, showing he had changed over the course of the movie into someone a little braver. They rush to Jared's castle but Sarah must go on alone to get Toby. The supreme ordeal is when Sarah is trapped in the impossible architecture of Jared's castle, Toby always remaining just out of reach. Finally, she tries to cheat it by jumping downwards but the whole thing melts away. Jared offers her everything she had ever wanted and a chance to make all her fairy tale dreams come true if she stays at his side. Sarah refuses, though it's very hard for her and the whole thing fades away back to Toby's room a white owl (Jared) flying from the room. After seeing Toby was safe, Sarah goes into her room, thinking about how so much had changed for her. She begins to put away her fairytale things and her toys, realizing how much she misses Hoggle, Luto, and Sir Didymus. Then they appear in her mirror and though there's nothing there the first time Sarah turns around, the second time they're all there. (Along with all the strange creatures she met along the way.) Thus she is very happy and at peace at the end of the film with her friends. | |||||||||||||||