The French Connection

Obviously a lot of France-related things going on.  Heck, it's even the French Open right now, and the Summer Olympics are coming up this summer in, where else, Paris.  What are you going to do.

For movie night this past Friday, my kids wanted to watch "Free Guy" on Netflix.

I realized part way through the movie that the title of the film is another form of France.  Or Francis, I guess..  Francis means "Free Man" (and Frenchman) and a guy is a man, so there you go.

Armed with little wink, I paid attention to a few plot points.

Guy, the main protagonist, only wears blue.  All blue.  They call him the Blue Shirt Guy.  He also 'wakes up' to a reality he had been blind to by putting on special magical glasses, which allow him to see things he hadn't been able to see before.

Further, the plot involves him and a few other characters trying to locate and find a hidden island paradise called Life Itself.  The Island lies invisible across an ocean that nobody can cross (spoiler alert:  Guy is able to ultimately cross the ocean by walking over it on a path that has been created for him).

Guy first is able to see or remember this Island that is outside the boundaries of his own world by going to his window, looking out of it, and manipulating the blinds to be able to see a reflection of the place coming through the window on them.  

I watched this movie on Friday night US time, so Saturday Taiwan time.  Later that night I wrote my post titled Spelling Bee, Abseil, and Waiting for a Star to Fall.  That same Saturday Taiwan-time, William mentioned in his own post that he read it, and then a few hours later had the student session where he read the dialogue with  "Joe" being asked to come over to the window and look out of it.

Character names also were relevant.  Guy (another word for rope also, by the way) is a NPC in a video game, but is being helped by a real human being named Keys.  Seriously, that was his name - Keys.  France's Keys?  

Keys has a female partner named Millie.  Millie was less interesting from a 'normal' name source standpoint (I mean, there are few minor things, but nothing grabbed me), but Mili in Elvish means "Seed".

Seeds have been synonymous or emblematic with what has become these Keys, which I take to, at least in one level of meaning, refer to the Stones.  This goes all the way back, unknowingly, to my first blog titled A Good Seed, which in hindsight was perhaps a reference to the Sawtooth Stone.  In my opening post on that blog (I don't have it anymore, so can't provide direct quotes) I specifically referenced planting a seed.  The Sawtooth Stone was of course planted, or buried, in the ground.  Further, in my short hamster story about Herbie, it was a seed that Herbie found that became the Key to his escape out of his little enclosure and out into a much larger and presumably better world.

Just a few thoughts.  And then, of course, you have Joan-Claire, and she is French, or rather positions herself that way.  But that would need to be another post to explore that whole thing.