The Last Unicorn
1968

Ratings169

Average rating3.9

15

This is a fairy tale of the most wondrous, ambiguous prose! Here we have immortal beings, but the tale as much as it is about the lifespan is also about being different and an outcast. Meet whimsical characters, a plot that goes somewhere and it gets there. Tons of dialog which somehow encompasses way more than what it should.

I watched the movie first and knew I had to seek out stories just like it, luckily the movie was based on a book and the author has other tales too. This is such a massive improvement from any other fairytale-like story I have read so far. There are still horses and there's horse riding which I do not like for ethics, but I will excuse it here for being desperate for a story like this.

Whatever visuals were in the movie they were perfectly described here and way better. This needs a modern adaptation and also I want to read two hearts already, so I will probably do so right now. I've seen that there was an earlier draft of the story about following a devil? I wonder how that would play out, seems kinda relevant with all the devil media I keep collecting.

I wanna imagine and fill my head with animals and the forest so that when people look at me they wouldn't see themselves :) The unicorn is an icon of GRACE and I need to channel her. This is the archetypes we want to emulate and not some greek warrior weirdos cough, cough.

If anyone ever has recommendations of stories like these please let me know, I need this mysterious, ethereal, magical, avant garde high art.

February 21, 2024