Friday, March 30, 2012

The NeverEnding Story

Alice: "I see nothing." Cheshire Cat: "My.  You have good eyes." In Wolfgang Peterson's "The NeverEnding Story," we have a motherless son whose father doesn't understand him; he's bullied into a trash can and daydreams of unicorns in spite of being afraid of horses. Clearly unable to fit in, he receives a nasty tirade from an angry bookstore owner about "small rectangular things" called books...