Parents....

[Tristyn]

Thank you Amy. I really appreciated what you said. You could be a motivational speaker, unless you really are one.

I think humans are indeed amazing for that tenacity. The ones who do not commit suicide and keep on going even when life gets so bleak are the strong ones. Maybe there is a meaning. I cannot disprove of that either. But I have no idea what it is and we may never know what is.

Ah, The Chronicles of Riddick with Van Diesel. My uncle (my dad's bro) loves that movie and my cousin (my uncle's son) does too. But I have to be honest, I couldn't watch the original one for ten minutes without thinking,"WTF?!" Its so...weird. And though its underrated and was a flop, it has a massive cult following.

I keep on going and sometimes I look back and am amazed at my own tenacity. So thank you for the encouragement. I am learning to be more grounded in my emotions instead of flighty. Meaning that I am becoming more composed instead of eruptive even when things are against me with my dad. All part of being an adult and a man too. But everyone can benefit from being composed in their emotions, man, woman and everything in between on the gender spectrum.



-Phoenix

[Amy413]

I was always drawn to the Jack/Kyra character.
I think maybe that's why the public didn't quite response as well as expected to the movie, the tran-unknown nature of Kyra (who was Jack in Pitch Black) threw people off. Kyra is more of a gender fluid, in love with Riddick in a strange way.

(maybe I have a crush on Vin Diesel?)

[Tristyn]

I was always drawn to the Jack/Kyra character.
I think maybe that's why the public didn't quite response as well as expected to the movie, the tran-unknown nature of Kyra (who was Jack in Pitch Black) threw people off. Kyra is more of a gender fluid, in love with Riddick in a strange way.

(maybe I have a crush on Vin Diesel?)

Oooh. So you see alot of yourself in Jack/Kyra? That's awesome. I felt the same way about a character from a visual novel that had transsexual elements to her/him as far as her/his story. Nah, that wasn't what threw me off. Its was the story and visuals. I mean, back then when I watched it, I was so depressed to the point where concentration was difficult. And Riddick is the type of movie you have to focus on to really understand what's going on. Like you could never play it as background noise like I do with The Super Mario Bros. Super Show on Netflix. If I could watch it now, I would and might even like it because I am actually in much better emotional health than I was some years ago. I had the same reaction with an anime (I am a Japanophile ) called Death Note. I remember watching it years ago not even being able to enjoy its amazing storyline and characters because I was too depressed. Now that I am just being a man like I should have been before, I somehow find myself really loving this show after recently watching it again years later. Its shocking at how depression can distort reality so much that you don't even wanna live sometimes.

Vin Diesel is awesome. What woman (or man) wouldn't have a crush on him? He's good lookin' and tough! He's got the man looks I want. He's like the ultimate bad @$$!



-Phoenix

[Amy413]

My observation was more on the general public's reception of the movie. When it came out it was all hyped up.
I think Kyra was a curveball the public didn't expect. But she is necessary to get into the esoteric understory.
I'm just like that with any movie or novel or whatever, I pay attention to the esoteric, the underlying symbolism.

Chronicals has to be watched completely alone with full attention to see that stuff.
I think that why most folks miss the esoteric, they are distracted. Which is almost unavoidable in modern life.
I have to go out of my way to really dig into a story.

Guess I'm a literary geek too.

But yeah, I'm a girl raised by feminists. I love being "girly" but I will not conform to anyone's definitions of what a woman is "supposed" to be. Maybe that how this "boy game" of mine started years ago, I got confused, too many choices. All those 1975 feminists my single mother was hanging around told me I could be anything I wanted to be. Those ladies loved me for who I was actually. They may have had angry things to say about the husbands they were divorcing, it was an angry time for a lot of people. But they were great women. I was raised on the ideal of the strong woman.

The great thing about Kyra, Riddick can't shake her. She keeps right up with him.
Won their little bet in the long run too. She is the better killer, she was the one who slayed the Lord Marshall, converted for the sole purpose of getting him. It was the only time Riddick ever shed a tear.

and the understory?, the 'underverse'?..... DEEP DEEP stuff when you look at from an esoteric standpoint. Monistic, ancient, intergalactic, level mythology. Bhrama level stuff.