FALLING STAR

This is a story about stars, what they do, and how to find one. People often assume stars as something they’d like to pursue. Stars can be referred as hopes, dreams, destinations, or maybe our loved ones. You see them twinkling at night and yet you wonder what they really are. Stars are mysterious – as mysterious as our destinies. We should all pursue our stars, or maybe wait until they fall upon us.

Stardust tells a story about a man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) who was asked to get a star by a girl he loved named Victoria (Sienna Miller), and brought it to her. How can a man reach a star and bring it to the woman he loves? So Tristan ventured on a journey in order to get the star that was said had fallen from the sky. The truth was Victoria didn’t love Tristan so she made what seemed to be an impossible request for him. That’s the only way Tristan could get Victoria to marry him.

It was not difficult for Tristan to find the falling star, but the real problem was to keep it. How come it’s difficult to keep a falling star? Was it too big or maybe too hot? No… It’s because the falling star surprisingly turned out to be a beautiful maiden named Yvaine (Claire Daines). Having no choice, Tristan had to bring Yvaine to Victoria as a proof that he had found the star. But Yvaine was not a “thing” – She was a living human beings. Tristan couldn’t “bring” a girl to another girl just like that.

To make matters more complicated, it’s not only Tristan who was pursuing the falling star. A cruel and powerful witch named Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) desperately searched Yvaine because she needed Yvaine’s heart to make her body became young again. On the other hand, there were also sons from a dead king who were eager to take the throne of the Stormhold Kingdom also looked for Yvaine, because she possessed the evil ruby stone required to gain the throne.

Everybody wanted to get their hands on Yvaine, the falling star. But who would make it until the end? It’s hard to reach the stars at the sky, but keeping a falling star was not easy either. As they say, it’s hard to reach your hopes and dreams, but when you do reach them, it’s even harder to keep them. All stars are able to perform their best talent, that’s to glow and shine – But their light may attract many. Would Tristan managed to “keep” Yvaine? Did he get the star that’s truly meant for him?

Every journey gives us life experiences and we will never be the same person again as before. Every life experiences change our life and hopefully to a better state. In order to reach our own stars, we all have to venture on a journey in our life. A journey that hopefully will take you to a destination you’ve wished for.

Sometimes we fight for ourselves, sometimes we fight for others. So girls, if you ever request your man to get you a star, be very sure you’re there when he returns… Otherwise he will find “another star” instead.

Ivan the Freelancer