Sometimes, the film insists, fantasies are just fantasies and kids know the difference even if adults think they donвЂ™t. The same holds true for an infinite number of fantasies. In other words, just because a young girl fantasizes about becoming a princess, it does mean she either desires or expects that fantasy to come true. These subversive qualities seem to suggest quite strongly that people need to realize there is a distinct separation between fantasy and reality and that the two can exist simultaneously and equally within a childвЂ™s mind without necessarily bleeding into one another. Later, when Jareth extends the opportunity to Sarah to actually, genuinely and truly become a princess, she rejects it in the blink of an eye. And then that appearance is itself subverted with the revelation that she is lost in her own one-person fantasy world of playing the role of a princess. This appearance is subverted with the revelation that she is actually just a normal teenage girl in a normal every day world practicing lines for a role as a princess. The film opens by subverting expectations as Sarah appears to be stereotypical young princess in a stereotypical fairy tale setting. Not too shabby a dayвЂ™s work for a girl pretty girl going up against a surprisingly fey Goblin trickster. Sarah starts out as something of an immature, selfish brat who makes the mistake of wishing away her brother and winds up going through the labyrinthine process of maturity into a more responsible young woman in less than a single day.

The central overriding theme of the film is the good, old-fashioned one of how the time comes when one must push away childish things and become a grown-up.

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