Labyrinth (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #43 extract: Labyrinth (1986)



I've seen this countless times, and it just gets better each time. The 80s cheese, CGI, soundtrack, Bowie, set design and so on all dress up - wonderfully so - an ingenious coming-of-age tale centred on Sarah realising that she does not want to become her mother (who abandoned her to run away with another man), instead, a functional and individuated person. The rules of the world she steps into are pin-point, the archetypes she finds within are exact and the questions she is forced to ask herself are spot on. This is a classical tale voiced through the 80s perfectly, and so I find this quite hard to critique. 
I've already gone into this film in some depth before, but maybe this deserves a second look?

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