The basic plot is about a peasant squire who poses as a knight to joust in tournaments. He falls in love with the forbidden girl, he forges his papers, and he becomes the best. He does all of this by being more noble than the real knights that surround him, and in the end he is rewarded for his actions.
But this blog isn't reviewing movies, it's taking something from a movie and about how we can apply it to our lives. This movie has possibly my favorite quote of all time. "A man can change his stars." This is so symbolic in the most basic sense that we can be whoever we want to be. Life and its challenges may hold us back, but its not impossible to live out our dreams, whatever those dreams may be. Wherever those dreams may lead us. It doesn't matter we can all change our stars.
I may over think this statement. It may be that I like it so much because Heath Ledger says it. But what it has done for my life is shown me that while the I may think events, incidents or anything for that matter are insurmountable, they're not. I can change my life to make it how ever I want to make it. I want to be a journalist, I want to be a writer or a novelist. And while a million other people may want to be the same thing, it doesn't matter. They don't matter. Its like this because I believe in the power the line from the movie has. It doesn't say "we all can," it says " A man can." (or a women for that matter) It uses the singular form. It gives the individual the power and not the world.
The world already has so much power over how we talk, how we act, what we wear, and what we think. So why should the world factor in in our decision of what we want to do with our lives. I don't think it should.
Do You?
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