28th June 2004, 5:18 PM
Quote:No, shadows and darkness ARE the same thing. Shadows are NOT a perversion of light, they are just the absence. All you did when shining the flashlight is create areas that are now full of light. The "shadow" is an area that is still exactly the same as it was before, well maybe a little more lit up because a little light likely made it back there, but it's the exact same condition. Calling that a shadow is merely human perception, it's not an actual THING like Peter Pan's shadow or Shadow Link, it's just an area that wasn't illumitated, and saying it was formed by the light is just like saying a chicken was FORMED by the clouds.
Light and shadow are connected. You can't have one without the other. Go into a room at night, turn off all lights, and tell me what you see. You won't see anything. And that's what darkness is, nothingness. There's not light or shadow. BUT, once you introduce light into that enviroment you change it completely and now you have something that allows you to measure the light and shadow.
Let's say you point a flash light at a chair. You'll see a shadow behind the chair which will look similar to the chair. I made a slight mistake when I said that the shadow was a perversion of the light, actually the shadow would be a perversion of the object. That makes a bit more sense I think. The light shining on the object creates two things: The object and it's shadow. In the case of the movie, Unbreakable Man was the object and Mr. Glass was, essentially, his shadow. Two sides of one coin. The superhero and the supervillain.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.