Imitations of Life

October 95

            This part of the film speaks about jack. Being strictly used to sound in the womb suddenly Jack in flooded with visual stimuli. Every sensation is new to jack. Things that amaze jack would be petti to us. But yet jack is intrigued by the stuffed animal. To him there is no reason it shouldn’t be alive. It has all the elements in order to live but yet it doesn’t. To jack it is a testament that there must be something far more complex too life than having the correct amount of limbs to replicate the human body, but rather life lies in the human soul. The reference to the silver spoon means that he will not grow up wuth everything handed to him in life but will rather have to strive for things himself giving him more opportunities in life if he can fight for it. Jack sees something that no one else can . A glimpse into his own future.  For jack the future has a completely different meaning, for him the future is anything about to happen. Not capable of oversight he is free of worries of the distant future like most but rather takes it on moment at a time. Not expecting anything and getting everything.

Xmas

            “I miss Santa Claus rather than God. “ To me this means that she misses the bliss of being a child. The time before life gets tough. A happy state where one can experience true happiness. Jack is constantly changing because his personality is not quite set in stone yet. As a young child he is unable to mask his emotions life adults but rather looks how he feels. A pure expression of emotion untainted by the onset or reality. As one gets older we use our face as a mask. Putting it on every morning  and only taking it off then we are alone. Based on ones mask is how people see you. A mask can always be changed but what’s underneath cannot. The mirror stage for jack is the first time be will realize that he is bound to one body. That his collection or neural impulses and emotions is actually held within a single vessel. His mind is not bound by time yet, his thoughts can run free not dictated by moral stigmas but rather by morbid curiosity driving him endlessly forward to explore. Jack is a Noas Arch or personality. His personality is ever changing ever developing. His environment will dictate which attributes will be dominant and which will fall to the way side.