As the World Falls Down

I have yet to see the movie (ordered it on Netflix) but have read synopses and seen clips and I'm sure many a romantic young maiden must have thought Sarah should have become Jareth's bride -- but that wouldn't have worked. Then the whole point of the story is lost. Sarah CAN'T be Jareth's bride. Jareth isn't supposed to be a lover or a sweetheart or a romantic interest. He is a manifestation of fantasy and of a little girl's love of playing make-believe. So their parting isn't really a PARTING, like a romantic parting. It's human social development. It's a young woman leaving the little-girl world of let's-pretend behind and taking her place in the mature world of responsibility and people. Of course Sarah and Jareth have to part, because there comes a time in every young girl's life where she has to take off the princess costume, put on some real clothes, and go out there and meet society.

The song, though, is beautiful and it sounds like a man wanting to be a woman's romantic hero, so it seems, to me, to be more about a sweetheart than about fantasy, and if my heart's true hero ever stops BEING a fantasy, I would play it at our wedding (assuming I meet and fall for a gentleman who can at least TOLERATE the song stylings of the talented Mr. B. I don't know exactly how many fellows are as bonkers for Bowie as I am. I am, after all, a lady.)