Thank you for joining us once again on this thought provoking journey of life lessons and morals hidden in films. This week's episode is based on the movie titled 'Four Letters of Love' starring Hollywood greats like Helena Bonham Carter, Pierce Brosnan, and Gabriel Byrne. Its a movie about hope, love, and letting go. Dive right in and see the list of lessons we observed in this movie. Enjoy reading.
- Perfectly Positioned
Isabel (Ann Skelly) seeks freedom from her strict church school and falls into the hands of an orchestrated helper (Peader) perfectly positioned to help her achieve her own deceit. Orchestrated helpers are deceivers who turn up in moments of rebellion to encourage you to fail. They can also be considered as witnesses that come to confirm your fall. Isabel did fall, like most young women even though its subtly acknowledged with the presence of dogs. In life be patient and remember there's time for everything to be enjoyed properly. At least that's how our world was planned, but due to the advantages and benefits of wrongness most people ignore right times and purposely incite or induce wrongness on the innocent. Do not let orchestrated deceit fool you into thinking you're attaining freedom, which only turns out to be a disguised form of enslavement or entrapment. Isabel's scene of escaping from the church also brings to mind the demonic powers of commandments. The ability of the demonic to command and make the angelic do things they otherwise wouldn't consider. So don't be surprised at the fact that you are sometimes commanded to do things that enable your own downfall. This is one of the major imbalances of our current world. How else would they be perfectly placed to enable it?
- Dysfunctional Relationships
"I hated my father, while he was gone I was happy" these are the words of Nicholas (Fionn O'Shea), son of William (Pierce Brosnan). Yet, when William decides to leave for seven days on a painting expedition, Nicholas asks 'Can I come with you?'. These sequences are quite contradictory. On one hand, it indicates a dysfunctional relationship between father and son and on the other hand it indicates a self-deceiving moment because Nicholas contradicts himself. Maybe its low self-esteem, teenage rebellion speaking, or just a need to be more love and protected by a father figure. Which ever way you think of it, there's a lesson in father-son relationships and the impact of a child's upbringing on his view of the world.
- Rescue Yourself First
Nicholas tries to rescue his father, William, from drowning but ends up almost drowning himself. You can't give what you don't have! Many people have lost the little they have, while attempting to rescue or help someone else. Even worse, some people pretend to need help just for a chance to draw you down or destroy what you are building. There are beggars who bond you to keep losing money i you give them some, there are homeless people who would assault your family if you take them in. Our world is wicked indeed! Be careful, don't try too hard, your security is a victory, and your balance would aid others to get balanced even without your direct help. Wickedness thrives in our world in various forms, even in pretense of needing help. It is therefore important to develop social balance and economic development in ways that eliminate or reduce opportunities for such wickedness to flourish. Many of us are good at heart and we become tormented when we see people in need of our help, but if there are adequate social systems to take care of such people, then we won't be pressured to make potentially fatal mistakes.
- Letting Go
William (Pierce Brosnan) offers two lessons in letting go. First at the opening of the movie when he quits his civil service job, and secondly at the way he handles the accidental destruction of his painting which he had worked so hard to achieve. In reality, so many people get too attached or dependent on things to the extent that they are willing to die because of it. That's a terrible way to think or live. Life has so many options, and so many opportunities if only we would learn to take a step back and reassess ourselves. The lesson is simple don't get too dependent or attached to things because time changes all things.
- Handling Rebellion
Isabel gets kicked out of the Christian school, after her escapades with Peader are exposed, but is it really fair on Isabel? In the movie's perspective, Isabel is a naive girl who only wanted to see the ocean, and she didn't come up with the excuse to abscond from school. Her rejection only made her more vulnerable. Suffice to say, she ends up as an enslaved girlfriend tending to a shop and left to look after the home. Her mother, Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) was very disappointed. These sequences question our methods of handling rebellion in society. Like we mentioned in the movie review of 'Side Effects', are our systems of rehabilitation really primed to withstand the true problems of society based on entrapping and enslaving bonds?
- Guilt-trippers
As the veil of deceit falls from Isabel's eyes after a meeting with her mother and Peader's mother, she again falls for the victim card, Peader (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) plays. She realizes that she has become enslaved under the pretence of love and accuses Peader, but sly Peader turns her emotions around and she ends up begging for more of his love. Guilt-trippers are experts at playing the victim card, they make you feel responsible, when you should be upset that they use you. In such instances, it is important to develop an objective mindset, free from emotional clutter. A careful objective analysis of your situation or circumstance rather than a reliance on emotional responses would help clear you doubts and give you a better perspective on what action to take. Alternatively, the scene also brings to mind the problems of bond entrapments, which results in a situation where the enslaved who are offended or wronged by their masters become pained by the bonds and need to beg for more love to overcome the bonded pains. How do you live in such situations? Situations where you know someone is being wicked but you need to beg them to keep being wicked in pretence of love. Its irrational and should be kicked out of society. It is a major source of disbalance in the flow of things, and its extended results are the many problems in society and the flow of our human race journey. This is similar to the lesson of 'the bullies problem' identified in our review of Rob Zombie's Halloween. Its an unfair and unpleasant practice of cheating and abusive enslavements. It is a major question on the acceptance of humans in the cosmos, a question on our ability to lead with responsibility.
Thank you for taking the time to be with us once again. Hope you enjoyed the life lessons described in this movie. Please leave your comments or suggestion below and find streaming sources for the movie FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE (2025) on the following links.
Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/winnipeg/watch/video/15676114
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13020386/
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