Having had an overdose of fairy tales, Ofelia is a girl who is a staunch believer in fairy tale ending. Even at the moment of her death, (her step father shoots her point blank) she is convinced that her blood opens the portal and she is let into her kingdom - a Utopian land. The happiness of the moment was enough for Ofelia to feel that her dreams were not altogether a farce. That the world is going to be a better place and that Mercedes is going to sing her lullaby to her every night. Btw, this is from a movie Pan's Labyrinth. I think it won an oscar in the best foreign movie category.
We all stick to the one thing that he hope for and make it the center of our lives. Base our decisions around it. Sometimes it makes me feel that the most rational and well thought ideas are founded by our most irrational thoughts and desires. Though not directly related to the story in the movie, it does remind me of various things we do just because we need to satisfy an urge of ours. These urges which don't even sound logically correct. We all chase money but why do we chase money? Is it because it buys happiness? Contentment? Well it buys neither yet we are here stranded but trying our best to deny it.
Ofcourse not everything starts out with money. Monomania like the ones seen in Hitler start out because they see something that they feel is wrong. They are obsessed with the idea of removing it from the system and do anything to do it. Because they see a fairy world where they are right. Obsessed with the idea that have to instill righteousness in the system and make it a better place. (question : Did he really start with that agenda?) Ofelia saw the world and was sure the world she lived in was not for her. Instead her place was in the utopian world where things were much better and she wanted do everything in her power to make it happen...
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