I wonder how long Tim Burton has waited so that this movie could be released on yesterday’s date. I would guess that he has had the story in mind for a few years. On second thought, maybe he just decided a couple of years ago to save the number nine gunny sack character. I do not know what they are really called. One of my 5th graders saw it last night. He gave me a brief synopsis about the first part of the story–how some of the gunny sack characters (spoiler alert) died.
Originally, there are the gunny sack characters–one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. About 4 are destroyed early on, but I will not tell you who they are. (My 5th grader did. But I pleaded with him to not give away the ending. He did not.) He told me about the spark of life and characters trading their souls and getting them sucked out through their eyes, something like that. I really love the concept of the spark of life. For most of the world, the idea that something or someone (God) greater than ourselves gave us breath, life, and animation is fairly universal.
From what I saw of the trailer and what my 5th grader told me, the idea of playing with life forces, especially those that were created by a higher power and manipulating and tampering with it seems like a futuristic progressive concept. You see it proposed as possible in cloning cells and so forth. It totally reminds me of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and all the moral implications of that.
The one thing to realize is that humankind may be able to modify plants and animals making hybrids and cloning sheep. However, there is one thing humans cannot do. They cannot put breath into these organisms or as Nine terms it: the spark of life.
Only God who created them can do that. I hope to see the show within the month so I can give a content breakdown. Oh, by the way, I have admired a lot of Tim Burton’s work. Some of you are old enough that you remember as I did one of the first movies, if not the first movie he ever directed–Edward Scissorshands starring Johnny Depp. I like Burton, because even though his movies tend to be dark, he manages to play into the sensitivities of the human spirit and condition. Did I mention Burton’s movies are extremely entertaining, too? I hope this movie is a financial blockbuster. If not, the moral message needs to be heard and reheard, even if only by 100,000 people. Hopefully, those that do experience the movie Nine will be touched by a spark and share the light of the message with others.
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