Films and Levels – 3. Humans and Angels

What makes the Little Prince in the book to die from a snakebite? The logic of the tale does not require this.

The Little Prince flew from home in a fairy way – with migratory birds – and he could return home with some other fairy way. Apparently, Exupery needs this event of death to make reader to think about the problem of death.

Therefore, tale of Exupery is for adult reader, children do not like the book. It is difficult and unpleasant for children to discuss the death.

The pilot did not die in the film – although he hints to the girl at this option. And in the movie Mr. Prince returns to his planet. The rose is already dead – but this death is not a tragedy. At least for modern child.

America does not think of death. America is young and optimistic. Europe is built around death and sorrow. She is old.

So, what all this stuff is about?

Authors – the author of the book, and the authors of the film – appeal to all the people, having their own inner world – people who have the level of 6. Especially for people-6, authors discuss the different roles and role-playing systems.

They do not deny the need for role-playing systems. For example, «to water rose and to clean land from weed baobabs» – these are reasonable roles. However, there are roles that have lost meaning («lamplighter» in the book), have closed themselves egoistically («ambitious man»), some are useful at some extend («king as elevator operator»). There are a lot of destructive roles in the world (teacher-tyrant, greedy capitalists).

The authors suggest people-6 to analyze roles around… and maybe even come up with new roles now missing. So the girl came up with two new roles: (1) to visit the pilot in the hospital, give him flowers and the tale as a book; (2) to tell the schoolmates about the boa constrictor and the elephant and – perhaps – about other book characters.

Summary

The authors believe that the world is built of roles. But we need to be able to analyze roles, to reject some old, to add some new. A sort of a rebellion on the knees.

Unfortunately, there is no good solution for this problem. We have too few degrees of freedom. Mom is tied to the office, girl is tied to the school, the pilot is tied to the bed in hospital (We could hope he will not die soon).

Mary and Max, 2009

Synopsis

In Australia, in a small town on the banks of an ocean, lives a family: little Mary, her father and mother. Unfortunately, they do not communicate with each other and everyone lives in one’s own little world.

Mary goes to school, but in school life is not much better. Accidentally, being with her mother in the post office, Mary discovers a directory that lists addresses different people living in the USA. A piece of random page of this book happened to be jammed in her hand.

The deficit of meaningful communication Marie feels like a personal problem, that’s why she decides to write a letter to a stranger, whose address was in her hand.

The stranger happens to be an old fat man with Asperger’s syndrome. Correspondence starts. After that… go and see it by yourself.

Levels

Max has 1 (gluttony) and 2 (cyclic time), and 6 and 7 (he has logics, he reads serious scientific books and shows non-trivial wit).

Mary has 3456 (scientific mind, but without creativity and paradoxes). Parents have 1245 (and have no signs of 3, 6, 7 and 8). Her husband has 2345.

They could cooperate, but Mary wants more. She is attracted to Max because of his 6—7 levels (for her 5—6 this is a pleasure). But she has no 8, to anticipate Max’s reaction to her book.

The breach with Max is her tragedy. And for Max this is a tragedy too, because now he has no place for his 6—7 too.

In the university Mary’s 6 makes very good impression. But none of the others can not communicate with Mary meaningfully, including Damien. Probably because Mary is melancholic + sanguine, melancholic dominates. Max is phlegmatic, he can wait.

The conflict becomes a tragedy when Mary tells Max that she has published a book in which he described Max as a special psychological type. Max falls into despair, horror, and stops to reply.

The book publishing is a 34-event. Max must reply at 45, but he cannot act at these levels. He falls into panic (first level). From this trauma, he will never resurrect.