Field of Dreams

before i liked movies, before i liked girls.. i loved baseball.. starting at the age of maybe 4 or 5 years old, and it's the first thing i recall enjoying. i'd play in the backyard or in the street with my brothers and our neighbors. these were great times. from this time until the age of 12 or so, playing baseball for fun and in 'little league' was bigtime. maybe it sounds dumb, but where i grew up, it was. the coaches were super into it, even at that age. watching Field of Dreams brings me back to those times, and simply reminds me how much i enjoy the game of baseball

i learned, some years back, that this movie's foundation was based upon Carl Jung psychology... centering around the concept of the collective unconscious- defined as the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind. i was fascinated by this. i won't go too in depth on the subject here, though entire books have been written on it. some of you may know a lot about this sort of thing already. for those who don't, you may find it fascinating, as i did. it deals with symbols, images, and reflections common in all our collective dreamworlds... it's been said that Batman and symbols like that were derived from Jungian psychology. it's worth the time to look into if you're intrigued


Conclusion: This is among the best baseball movies for me. along with Major League (1989), a more humorous take on the game, as well as the Natural (1984, with Robert Redford. perhaps a more cliché take, but i still like it). Field of Dreams is a movie that will always take me back to my roots, my childhood. and as goofy as it sounds, it's a movie that makes me happy while watching

8.0 / 10