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Apr 22nd Twenty-Ten
Apr. 22nd, 2010 05:33 amIt wasn't enough that FFVII holds a really deep place in my heart. Advent Children had to just make it deeper. I watched it again for the first time with a chance to really assimilate it.
The thing is that I know a lot of people don't experience Advent Children the same way that I do. That's somewhat depressing. If you haven't played the game...it just isn't the same story.
The ending really is perfect, it leaves us with just enough information that Cloud is ready to be with Tifa. The case is made especially because of the quote earlier when Cloud says, "I feel lighter, maybe I've lost some weight...must've been all that dilly dally silly sallying I was doing." and that itself was a reference to a conversation between the two it flashes back to yet earlier in the film, when Tifa keeps saying the word sequence because Cloud can't move on...Reno even hints at it, "I think she's waiting for you to move on" while she's still laying in bed. Aeris' true love was Zack - and we see them together presumably in the life stream at the end. There's also some metaphorical stuff when Tifa and Cloud are laying the opposite way next to each other in the flowers at Aeris' church - they take the shape of a yin yang and 69 symbol, and I read into that as them being meant for one another. I think it's the unavoidable conclusion. The first time I played the game, even though I was positive Tifa was the girl for Cloud, I got the date with Aeris instead of Tifa and I felt the game played out that the plot device was indeed his soul mate...looking at it at my age today though, with the mind I have today...and it is definitely Tifa. Even in just the game without Advent Children - although it's certainly nice to see the developers never lost sight of the true nature of the story and characters.
I totally got teary eyed at the end... -sigh- really lame I know, how effeminate of me...
I am not a homosexual, but I've been having some issues with the opposite sex for the past few years...
I suppose maybe my effeminate nature could have something to do with all of it...but to be honest I like the fact I feel and I really experience the full breadth of reality...that I'm not restricted by a system of sex role...
It's this whole eight-circuit brain business...it's not a coincidence since the age of twelve I've been doing just about everything Leary lists in the extraterrestrial brain...and I started long before drug experimentation.
The thing is that I know a lot of people don't experience Advent Children the same way that I do. That's somewhat depressing. If you haven't played the game...it just isn't the same story.
The ending really is perfect, it leaves us with just enough information that Cloud is ready to be with Tifa. The case is made especially because of the quote earlier when Cloud says, "I feel lighter, maybe I've lost some weight...must've been all that dilly dally silly sallying I was doing." and that itself was a reference to a conversation between the two it flashes back to yet earlier in the film, when Tifa keeps saying the word sequence because Cloud can't move on...Reno even hints at it, "I think she's waiting for you to move on" while she's still laying in bed. Aeris' true love was Zack - and we see them together presumably in the life stream at the end. There's also some metaphorical stuff when Tifa and Cloud are laying the opposite way next to each other in the flowers at Aeris' church - they take the shape of a yin yang and 69 symbol, and I read into that as them being meant for one another. I think it's the unavoidable conclusion. The first time I played the game, even though I was positive Tifa was the girl for Cloud, I got the date with Aeris instead of Tifa and I felt the game played out that the plot device was indeed his soul mate...looking at it at my age today though, with the mind I have today...and it is definitely Tifa. Even in just the game without Advent Children - although it's certainly nice to see the developers never lost sight of the true nature of the story and characters.
I totally got teary eyed at the end... -sigh- really lame I know, how effeminate of me...
I am not a homosexual, but I've been having some issues with the opposite sex for the past few years...
I suppose maybe my effeminate nature could have something to do with all of it...but to be honest I like the fact I feel and I really experience the full breadth of reality...that I'm not restricted by a system of sex role...
It's this whole eight-circuit brain business...it's not a coincidence since the age of twelve I've been doing just about everything Leary lists in the extraterrestrial brain...and I started long before drug experimentation.
