Of the titans

BLM:90 WHM:90 SMN:90 THF:90 WAR:90 DRK:90 RNG:90 PLD:90

When I first saw Clash of the Titans I thought it was the neatest movie out. It had a love story and magnificent unreal creatures that came right out of the storybook. Because I saw it at a young age, the images stuck with me.

I remember the day he finds weapons given to him by Zeus, Persius was the boy's name; he finds a helmet, a sword, and a shield.

The helmet has the power to render the user invisible. Our ability to get on in the world is this. To be nobodys to the greater populace and to move without being seen, especially in front of a hanging, was what this relic endowed. It's not so co-incidental that he loses his helmet in the swamp, at the onset of combat because after combat is when you cease to be a nobody.

The sword can cut through everything like hot butter. This is your intellect. YOU must decide what will be your course through life and what is to be deemed righteous. Obviously winning a bride is often deemed righteous by the hero but not by the other main characters as often there are. Your sword draws the line and symbolizes when you will act against what you perceive as evil.

The most important relic is the shield. Zeus speaks through his shield. He says, "guard well this shield for one day it will guard your life". I was confused by this. How could a shield guard his life and when did this happen in the movie? The other two relics, especially for me at 10 or so, were much more magical. The shield could have been made of wood for all I knew and it would still cover you from a blow.

But the shield's true purpose is as a mirror. It is the ultimate weapon. It is in the mirror that Persius can see himself and reflect on his actions. Indeed it is through this "power" that he is able to see the unseeable, to see the Medusa.

People will use fear to try to control you and it is with this shield that you must remember who you are. You are the ruler. You are "of the gods" though you are not immortal. You were meant to fight, and remain.

Even the council of the gods, with their little statues and comments reminds me of what it must be like on Olympus. It's probably a lot like City Hall or the White House or some such.

The best part of the movie was the ending of course and the Pegasus I guess, but the most comforting thing to me is the ending when he finally gets his girl and Zeus forbids anyone to take action against him, because he had struggled so hard that he would now, finally, be allowed to have peace with his wife.

Doing whats best?

BLM:90 WHM:90 SMN:90 THF:90 WAR:90 DRK:90 RNG:90 PLD:90


Maybe you believe that it is your duty to get results when it comes to the enforcement of what is right and wrong. Surely if you raise a fuss loud enough something will happen.
Maybe one day you see a couple fighting and the husband grabs the wife and tells her to shut up, so you call the police and he is arrested. It turns out that they were fighting about the family and bills. Well you really helped that situation right? The husband now has no job the wife is totally miserable with noone to yell at and maybe the children will be raised up proper by foster parents when it comes out that the wife has been using drugs or cheating or whatever. Boy you really helped out by calling for help to save that marriage and the menace they posed to society. The kids will probably be miserable their whole lives and never mind what happens to the cute couple.
Maybe one day you see someone kicking the dog and you call the Humane society to help out the poor dog. Well then you find out the dog bit the smallest child and he has to be put down. Boy you really helped out that dog!
Maybe one day you think Saddam Hussein has got a big mouth and we really ought to go shut it for him. Well you see what happened. People in New York definitely see what happened.
Maybe one day you find out that terrorists have kidnapped a bus load of people and all of us should do whatever it takes to free them. Well that's when Reagan decides it's ok to sell arms to terrorists. Hah. He must have laughed when he thought about the irony of it. Boy we really helped out the country by defending our honor and getting our hostages back. At least noone died.
I'm not going to say that people shouldn't call in the police to get help when they are in danger like from violence or from threat, but if you go to a drive-thru after the bar and end up in jail, you are gonna wonder if perhaps there are some screwed up people out there... doing what's best for society.