In the beginning, when the movie ended, I too wondered what was the point? Then I remembered the first few moments of the movie. This is not your normal movie and it was not meant to be. It begins by telling you UP FRONT, it is a Fable (a legendary story , which is a handed down to children through generations, which often contains supernatural happenings and a narration intended to force a useful truth.) This is more so true in stories from other cultures like Australia and Asia and Germany perhaps, than here in America where we often tell fairy tales, which is a story (as for children ) of fantastic forces and beings such as fairies, wizards, goblins, in which improbable events lead to a happy ending.

It states how often those from other dimensions (in this case water), will risk their lives to bring us messages. Here the messages are many and subtle (as they are in fables), as this water nymph assumes a human form. We often have no idea any more what our "real purpose" is in life, and so we live meaningless lives. Like the manager, the writer, and so on in the film. We do not notice our true natural abilities, like the apartment manager who heals. He quietly goes about his job of "fixing things", and also is loving, understanding, compassionate, forgiving, and provides sometimes, the only other human contact people have. Most amazing healers have undergone some horrible experiences which help them become much more empathetic of others challenges.

We have completely lost our ability to see life through the eyes of a child, with awe and wonder, as the nymph did. As an example, we used to put "love, originality, and quality" into our work, as can be seen in other countries, like Europe, where buildings last for hundreds and hundreds of years. Here we now build stick homes (which were originally only made for a dire emergency when thousands of people lost their homes in a flood and we needed some quick solution.), and our neighborhoods are made up of two hundred homes which are all the same!!! Many fall apart before the mortgages are paid off! Many malls across this country now are built using the same plans and color schemes!! There is so little originality! We created a "rat race" of a life. Many people are bored, unhappy, confused. We spend hours a day doing "meaningless things".

Here comes this young lady who needs help, and complete strangers are willing to do some unusual things, in order to help, even if it seems a little far out. We forget that in many great books, we are encouraged to "be like little children" again and again, even the Bible. They are often our teachers and not the other way around. The young boy is commenting on how the colors in the cereals remind him of when his mother left his father was so sad, and so on. He is very bright and aware and not given any credit by those around him before this moment.

It is very significant that the only person to die is the very man who thinks he has life all figured out! The man for whom there are no surprises, no new endings, nothing left which might wake up his imagination to new possibilities. He has closed himself off to the world until life appears in front of him, and his "know it all attitude, is not able to save him.

I will not go on. This movie is like Alice In Wonderland, for which they now give college courses to extrapolate the deeper meanings inside the story. It was not appreciated in its' time either. The guild did not follow through, like they do in life. They were so self centered, they forgot they had an important role to play. Just like in life when we make promises and commitments to ourselves and others, and then often do not follow through. How many times do we do this to ourselves, to our friends, and especially our own children?

Finally remember. They woman did not want to tell the story to some "adult", so he had to play as if he were "child like" for only then, did she feel he might understand the deeper meaning of the story. Most people who are locked into their adult minds, are like the writer, so stuck in a world we think "is real", we miss the magic of every moment around us. A world which is filled with wonder and magic ready for the taking, while we are starving in the desert of our dreams, we think is something we call "life". And now our children suffer from" nature depravation", as they are kept more and more inside, due to our fear of their being "stolen" from us or hurt in some way.

Everything we eat, use, wear, build, live in and on, came from ingredients in Nature and yet we stay cooped up inside, away from what feeds our very being. Even when camping now, people take their motor homes, for fear of touching that which is real and magical. We are surrounded by a world in which every leaf on a tree, every snowflake, every blade of grass, is a one of a kind original, being re-created again and again with every breath you take, as if by Magic! While we strive to create a billion things which are identical and we sell those that are not identical, as "defects" at a lesser price. When you can stand back and look at our species, you can only laugh at how caught up we are in ourselves and how blind we have become to the true "reality" of the place in which we live, and which holds us in its' womb, and continues to nourish and love us, despite it all.

Aside from the acting, which I did not comment on... Someday, perhaps, maybe when you pass over from this world into the next, you might see this movie in a different light and understand its' deeper hidden messages. A wake up call for a people who might be on the verge of a long, long sleep if we don't begin to change. I for one appreciated the wake up call. I am soon going to share my own writings (on LiveAsLove.com), which like the "The Cookbook" in the film, might stir up a few people. Yet I know it will make a difference in someone's life, and for that I am willing to share them.

With endless love and magic, Morgine

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