For this blog post, I will be analyzing the two films that are very connected to the subject of the past and how to over come it. The first film I will look at an analyze is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. This film shows us that our deals in the past can come back to haunt us, every decision we make in the past with certain people can come back to haunt us in the present. The next film I will analyze is Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and it will show us how to stand up to our past and how to look at it, keep it down or destroy it to help us create a new future with the people that are in our lives. This blog is a two-part blog, today I will talk about looking at your past and how it can come back and haunt you for the decisions you made and tomorrow I will talk about how to face your past and how to get the best of it.
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest: Why The Past comes back to Haunt Us
In the film Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest, Captain Jack Sparrow has a debt to pay to Davy Jones who is the ruler of the seven seas and captain of the horrifying ghost ship the Flying Dutchman. In this film, we learn that thirteen years ago, Jack and a deal with Jones, to raise the Black Pearl from the depths and Jack would be captain of the it. Unfortunately, Jack was only captain for two years before his first mate, Barbossa planned a mutiny and left Jack on an island to die. This shows that, a young Jack Sparrow made a deal with the devil, and now, his debt has to be repaid. The deal from the film was as follows: Jack will be captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years, then after the thirteen years he will go aboard the Flying Dutchman and serve one hundred years before the mast. Jack knows this from the beginning of the film, so he tries to find a very special chest, a chest that does not have any treasure like silver, gold and diamonds, but what a man treasures the most, his heart. Jack is trying to find Davy Jones's chest, which contains his still beating heart. There is a very good quote from the film when Jack and his new first mate Gibbs are talking, they find the Letters of Marc signed by Lord Cutler Becket, who Jack also made a deal with, but never did the deal. Becket also wants the chest of Davy Jones, but not for settling debts, Becket wants to control the seas, by any means necessary. At this point in the film, Jack visits and old friend Tia Dalma, who gives Jack some advice and a jar of dirt. The dirt is very symbolic in the film, Davy Jones cannot step on land, but once every ten (10) years. So Jack goes and finds a ship wreak, sends William Turner to "settle" his debt, but that ship wreak is not the Dutchman. Soon the Dutchman does appear, and these sea creatures appear, the get the dying sailors in a line, that is when Davy Jones comes in and offers them to serve on the Dutchman or go to the crushing abyss known as Davy Jones Locker. Turner tells Jones Jack sent him to settle his debt, Jones is not pleased at this point, he appears on the deck of the Pearl along with his crew, Jack negotiates with him, the final deal Jones gives Jack. Jack needs to get one hundred souls, in three days. Jack sets off the find the chest of Davy Jones and to make Jones pay off the debt. Unfortunately Jack fails, and Jack does not get the heart of Davy Jones, the Black Pearl is dragged back underwater to Davy Jones locker by Davy Jones's pet, the Kraken. The person that does get the heart of Davy Jones is Cutler Becket, now the pirates and other sailors are in trouble. Becket has control over Davy Jones AND the Flying Dutchman, as what Gibbs told Jack "If Becket controls the chest, they control the sea."
The Final Thought
If you have had a rough past, do not run from it. Stand up and face it, look it in the eye and say, yes I have made bad decisions but I have learned from those mistakes. If you choose to keep running from your past, it will hurt those who you love and care about and it will also decide what will happen if you keep running.
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