How do you analyze Labyrinth?

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Every single time I watch the film I have a different idea of why all these events are happening.
I wish to know your over analysis of the film!

Here are some ideas if you don't exactly understand what I mean ~

This one talks about how Jareth seeks out dark haired girls name Sarah who have a step mom and younger sibling. That way he can be with his true love again who died. daughterofavalon.tumblr.com/po…

This is a dark twisted version on Labyrinth~ eatsshootsandleaves.deviantart…

This is by someone on Facebook~
It's also worthy of note that Jareth takes on the form of an owl and that David Bowie is known for his androgyny. The owl is representative of the Greek goddess Athena, and perhaps even earlier goddesses such as Ishtar/Ereshkigal, who were divine figures of feminine strength and knowledge. The Gobin King, while presented in male form in the film since Sarah is presumably heterosexual, is a symbol of her developing sexuality and represents her struggle to be a child who wishes to be served and to live without responsibility and to be an adult who makes her own choices and acts on a different set of impulses. The labyrinth that she is lost in is symbolic in psychology of the journey to discover oneself. Sarah faces off with Jareth in the center of the labyrinth where she finds out that he, in her words, "have no power over me," and that she is free now to live her life on her own terms. She can summon up the figures of her imagination and the different parts of her character, whatever each of them represents, and revisit her childhood whenever she wants, while still embracing her role in womanhood.

A Whole Webpage FULL of Theories~ tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…

Another Facebook~
No one mentions the people in the crystal ball. I think that these are all those who instead of taking the challenge of saving the child, they took the crystal.. Nothing more... And they live in their dream world forever more. For if every goblin is a baby Toby that wasn't rescued, every ballroom dancer is someone who picked their dreams over the child.

One more Facebook~
Jareth is part of Sarah. He wanted to speed up the clock, so that Toby would forever be his, and so that Sarah would be rushed into adulthood. It would force Sarah to acknowledge that she was reaching sexual maturity and to acknowledge her own maternal instincts. Sarah wasn't emotionally ready for that yet.

This here is just a random comparison of Bowie's tights and Sting's underwear~

First of all, Sting's underwear in Dune — while winged and containing a massive bulge — doesn't really show off a lot of detail. Obviously, Sting's packing something down there, but the underpants themselves cover a volume of space, which Sting's junk could be contained with room to spare, or fill to the brim. The underpants are solid and opaque, so there's no way to know for sure.

Meanwhile, Bowie is wearing tights in Labyrinth that show off his Diamond Dog in stunning detail, so we know it's enormous. It might — might be smaller than Sting's package if it truly maxes out its container, but I say the visual proof of Bowie's gargantuan batch beats Sting's potential.

But that's not all; Sting is only in his skivvies for one scene in Dune, while Bowie is strutting around in his Pants Magic Pants for almost the entirety of Labyrinth. More importantly, the way Lynch made Dune, the film — well, Sting's near-naked duel makes sense, visually and conceptually, within the film's style. It has a visual impact, but it's an impact on par with things like the Sandworms and Baron Harkonnen and all that.

Meanwhile, Bowie's package is the sexual tyrannosaurus hiding in plain sight in what is supposedly a fun kids' fantasy-adventure movie. While technically more subtle, this half-hearted attempt to hide it is like trying to hide an elephant in your closet — it just makes the elephant a lot more obvious. And most importantly, remember, Labyrinth is about a teenage girl trying to rescue her baby brother from goblins — and the fact that the Goblin King has a massive, massive dick adds this weird, omnipresent sexuality to the entire movie, which I'm not 100% sure wasn't included on purpose. I say Bowie's bulge definitely had the bigger impact (so to speak). Also, I am 99% sure Bowie's penis has its own SAG card.


One again how do YOU view "Labyrinth"?

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I think that Labyrinth is supposed to represent Sarah's choosing the important factors in her life. In the end, she chose family and friends over a possible love interest. Jareth's proposal of her staying with him would not have been a stable relationship. There would have been an inequality between the two from the start. She chose to stay with the people who had stayed by her side the entire time during her quest, and I personally believe that she made the correct choice in that.