The Red Bull and The Last Unicorn
19 Jan
Says The Skull…”To get to the Red Bull’s chamber, you have to walk through time. A clock isn’t time; it’s just numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.”
“I am afraid of this mortal body… more afraid than I was of the Red Bull.” says the unicorn who has become a woman.
She became a woman under the spell of a magician. Someone changed her from what she was in order to protect her.
Did she need protection? Only as a Unicorn was she able to push forward and drive the bull into the sea.
Yet her time being not herself… faking it… enabled her to see and feel in other ways. It was the love that she felt for Prince Lir propelled her forward and helped in fighting the bull.
Along with being something else she experienced new feelings and fears. She also slowly forgot herself.
To return to being what she really was was a fearful thing filled with a new understanding and also loss, but it made her more than what she once was.
Sometimes the masks we must put on teach us things that make us stronger as our true selves.
All from the fear of a Big Red Bull and a feeling of loneliness.
What oh what did the Red Bull really signify?
In general I usually always prefer a book over a movie, but in the case of The Last Unicorn it is the opposite.
The book is fine and all, but the movie is a bit more mystical and put together better.
Link to – The Last Unicorn (book)
The movie:
“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
So says Schmendrick the Magician.
