Index Record

Labyrinth — 1986 Film

Jennifer Connelly as Sarah and David Bowie as Jareth dancing at the masquerade in Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth — Jennifer Connelly as Sarah and David Bowie as Jareth in the masquerade sequence from Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986). ↗

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Conventional Reading

Fantasy film in which Sarah enters the Goblin King’s labyrinth to rescue her baby brother Toby.

Geomytha Reading

In Geomytha, Labyrinth is a total image-world built from projection, desire, fear, and grievance. Its apparent sovereign power depends on the traveler continuing to grant the world authority. The decisive motion is not conquering the maze but seeing through its claim to ultimacy: All This loses force when the witness no longer mistakes the projected world for source.

Why the Difference Matters

Conventionally, Labyrinth is the 1986 fantasy film in which Sarah enters Jareth's realm to recover Toby. Geomytha reads the labyrinth as a projected world-system whose authority weakens when belief is withdrawn; that is an editorial symbolic reading, not a claim about the film's exclusive intended meaning.

Parent work / tradition / source

Labyrinth (1986), directed by Jim Henson

Source location / reference

Labyrinth (1986), directed by Jim Henson; Sarah's quest through the Goblin King's labyrinth to rescue Toby.

Reading Boundary

The Geomytha reading is interpretive and distinct from production-history claims.