Blue light stone? - Lulu on the Bridge (1998) Discussion

[–] pallybear 18 years ago

anybody? what does it symbolize?

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[–] ringo_j77 18 years ago

it means you should lay off the pipe.

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[–] pallybear 18 years ago

Have you seen the movie?

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[–] LaffingCow 18 years ago

I think perhaps it may represent a symbol of and visual connection for the proverbial mirror to the soul. It shows to a person their most common denominator regarding the spirit. No exaggerations or embellishments in this experience here. For example, it reflects what you really are inside as a person with the ability to make that person see and know that clearly on a gut level. If there are two people present, it reflects their inner selves in relation to each other; as in the initial experience between Celia/Lulu and Izzy. Later when she looked at it alone it separated into two parts, indicative of her inner turmoil she was experiencing due to her worrisome and longing separation from Izzy. I also think that in a real sense, the stone does not have to be there physically. A person's strong sense of self should be able to introspectively be aware of who they really are inside as an individual and express that to the world at large. But for the purposes of the film's antagonists and story, its presence was necessary. Curious what the experience would be like when the stone is in the presence of three or more people. Let me guess, the son of a major political figure finds it downriver and the hostile antagonists go after them in the sequel? Just some thoughts...

Confucius says "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard should be kicked by the foot!"

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[–] gigidivizia 18 years ago

The stone represents all the good and beautiful things that Izzy didn't have during his life because of his fault - love of a woman most of all (Celia), but also family love (he didn't saw his brother for 7 years, and he refused to sing at his father's funerals). Thorugh Dafoe's caracter (Izzy's conscience) , Izzy questions himself about all those things that he wished he have done differently - and i'm sure that this is what a man who knows he's going to die shortly is thinking about. So Izzy is fighting with his conscience for the stone, because he knows he doesn't deserves it (from the dialog with Dafoe we can see that he didn't believe in true love - he saw women only as sexual objects). Finally the movie suggest that everyone has a good part (Izzy: "Am i a good person, or a bad person?". And one of his band's members repplies: "Your a good person, with some bad parts..just like everyone else.") and that we should all believe in love - we see at the end that Celia is in fact real.

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[–] ringo_j77 18 years ago

the stone is the stone that the builders rejected. why are you trying to make this so hard and complicated. It is illuminated by the holy spirit. actually I like your response. I think it was brilliantly put out there by the previous poster. I just think many interpretations are necessary for a story that does involve all of us.

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[–] milesrushton 18 years ago

i think you should take your own advice about laying off the pipe.

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[–] niwel52 18 years ago

As he lay on the floor after being shot, he saw a piece of the ceiling fall. It looked like the same shape and size of the blue stone. The stone only glowed in the dark. Remember how Izzy felt about fire flies as a child? It was like the most cool thing. Now, as he looks at the stone, I think that he sees his soul as apart from his body. The man with the bullet hole in his head represents death, final and dark. Should he fight to live, or die. As he looks at his life, everything that he did, he screwed up. Should he love again if he lived? I think that he thinks that he would screw that up, too. He gave the stone, his soul so to speak, to his girlfriend. She and the stone end up in the river. With one lung shot out, his really only one true love died; his ability to make music. The last scene of the movie, he checks out. His brief review of his life during the ambulance ride is over.

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[–] sarock 18 years ago

I think that one aspect of the stone's meaning is hope. In the myth of Pandora's box she hears the whispers of all the vices and ills within the box before she opens it. The final thing that she finds in the box after letting everything else out is hope. While Harvey's character is unwrapping the layers of the box there are whispering voices speaking in another language. I don't think that's the whole meaning but I definately think it's part of it considering all the references to Pandora throughout the film.

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[–] AxeMan 11 years ago

I thought of it like a white light because he was dying but he was shot in the heart and I took it like the loss of blood to your head - sort of like taking Viagra you actually see BLUE when you take Viagra! I also thought the whole story was him NOT FINDING his sole mate sort of a flash back to what could have been if he found her, this is why Lulu/Mira is so sad in the final scene as she is lost and never found her true love, they were two lost souls and that is why she stops and makes the sign of the cross towards the ambulance as she feels a love dying. They never met in reality, there was no stone, there was no bandits she did not throw herself in the lake it was all a metaphor for unfounded love!

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