I just re-watched my favorite movie of my younger years: "Fairy Tale: A True Story". When I was smaller, my sister and I would wander off into the nature to make homes for our faerie friends. We were obsessed. We left there gifts, letters, food. We kept a binder filled with mystical fairy drawings, pictures, names, dry leaves, sparkles. Every night, after our parents had tucked us into our beds, we got up, took the binder, and made a home for them with our binder open for inspirations, and chanted faerie chants. When we found this movie, we both were instantly taken by it. Elsie's room is to die for. The wooden walls and ceiling with warm candle lights, faerie wings, and lovely costumes hanging on every wall. It is definitely my dream room. In addition to that, Elsie has a magical garden with a stream and all, where she and Francis wandered off to daily. After watching the movie, I researched more about the Cottingley Faerie case, and yes, I cried when I found out it was a hoax. I felt like my childhood dreams and inspirations were taken away from me. But now that I am older, and after seeing this amazing movie again, I realized that the pictures didn't have to be true. Elsie and Francis did them to show Elsie's mother that they were true and so she'd begin to believe. During the movie, we see with the looks on their faces that they're lying, and there are many other moments of proof, but that doesn't matter. Just because the pictures are fake doesn't have to mean that everything else isn't true either. I do believe in faeries, I do, I do.
Come out from your Faerie bower,
Come upon this golden hour,
Come to us we beg you please,
Faeries dancing upon the breeze!
[Photos from: http://end-of-march.blogspot.com]
this movie seems oh so lovely. just as you yourself, saskia dear.
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imaginative things are not less real than reality. imagination is reality.