The story is clearly introverted. As Jung said, extroverts cannot experience their unconscious DIRECTLY, and need to project their unconscious archetypes onto external objects to experience it!! That is interesting, as for an extrovert the "Stardust" film probably only works as a "fairy tale", while for introverts the story becomes a picture of a quest into Tristan's unconscious. When he crosses the wall, he understands what true love is, and he finds him self and the meaning of his life - he becomes the ruler of his unconscious and rules it with his Anima (his soul) - the Star. This is a very clear picture for me, and probably for most IEIs, while Jung says this can only be "sensed" by extroverts" and thus the fairytale becomes more of a picture than a reality. (Yes, I see my inner world as just as real as the "real" world).
This is not only introverted, but a very Ni way of seeing things, I think. Anyways, intuition should be fairly clear, and I've already explained how I see introverted intuition, so I'll not repeat it here.
Ethics > Logics should be fairly clear as well, since it's all about relations and connections between people.
Irrationality should also be clear. The heros are more or less just walking about, with no clear path, they follow the flow and accept their challenges and happenings as they come. Also the ways the heros chose to do things, the acceptance of circumstances, but still never giving in to them, the romantic thoughts, the acceptance of all people as they are, even if they are "weird" - all of it very irrational and typical of IEIs.
I guess that typing a film like this is not really correct, and a good film will contain things that all people can enjoy. But also when we look at functions, I think
- Se>Si should be clear: power battles, hierarchy, idealism, fight for the good cause, never afraid of seeking the hard challenges on the way to "truth", getting what you want, knowing what you want, fight for your ways, etc. I don't see Si at all, except maybe in the outer world, where he lives a more "relaxed" life.
- Ni : spirituality, immortality, time loops, intuitive connections between everybody and everything, a reason behind it all (it all happens for a cause - to integrate Tristan's outer and inner, in a way), synchronicity
- Fe/Ti: I guess we all agree on the Fe/Ti>Fi/Te aspect of the film.
The story is also aristocratic all along. Again this points to Beta >Alpha. I'm pretty sure you'll agree to the aristocratic opinion?
Some more Jungian connections:
1. Tristan is half human (his father), half from the land behind the wall (his mother). This is a perfect picture of how humans are half conscious beings, half unconscious beings. (This is definitely a very introverted way of seing things. It is also a fairytale way of explaining the unconscious, known to both extroverts and introverts as a traditional way of showing unconscious happenings. I see all the things happening behind the wall as Tristans quest to understand his unconscious.)
2. Tristan is in love with a woman in the real world, and wants to bring back a star to show how much he cares about her. The thing is, he's not really in love with this woman, but with the Anima image he has projected onto her - the "perfect woman" - and behind the wall he realises that real love is not about "perfection". (So his unconscious shows him real love)
3. He fights inner demons and complexes from outside that tells him how he SHOULD live his life, but finally finds HIS way, and lives it regardless of the dangers it puts him in, and at the end he becomes the ruler of his unconsciuos.
These Jungian/fairytale elements in the film will automatically make it relevant and likeable for ALL quadras, I think, so even if the story and the characters on a superficial level are Beta, the message is universal.
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. Still, I think there's something to the nonsense I'm spouting.
Originally Posted by dolphin
valuing territory. And about tristan's determination, he is on a quest to win his love. That is not Se, that is romanticism (however deluded it may be in the beginning).
), but this may have been more so in the book. It was not pushed in the film, it was just a weird little quirk. I still stand by the self-realisation moral of the story (Add cpt shakespeare into that mix actually, he effectively came out of the closet adding to the theme, and his crew still respected him which is very alpha actually). Maybe that and the whole getting the star's heart meant unconditional love giving immortality rather than actually chopping it out (which actually going with cliche again points away from violent Beta 
, I am saying that it is the driving force behind their "journey", not necessarily 
