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Re: Are you misinterpreting this?
Posted By: va1or <m.j.durrin@gmail.com>	Date: 6/4/11 2:34 a.m.
: I don't see what's so passive about Lara here. Remember, this is an origin : story. They basically telegraph that she is a recent college (?) grad and : has been on no death defying adventures. So when the ship gets flooded and : she gets trapped underwater, she is discovering her will to survive. She's : not Super-Lara yet?. Yeah someone helps her out, but she is fighting for : her life. She makes a terrifying leap, misses her target, washes up to : shore on a capsized boat and then starts getting all Rambo complete with : bloodied face and painfully fastens dressing to her own wounds. : Besides, I may be wrong, but I think you may be misinterpreting the entire : thing. I think the mystery man whose arms we see only and the man who is : yelling to her to jump are the same man. A phantom in her mind. Why, do we : only see the rescuer's arms and why, as soon as she is out of the water : does he disappear and not also run and jump? Perhaps it's her mental image : of her father or a mentor who trained her. It's when he starts helping her : that she speaks of finding something inside ourselves to go on. In other : words, she is seeing this important figure as an inspiration, compelling : her to be strong. : I know almost nothing of Tomb Raider fiction and may be completely wrong : here. Anyways, I like the gritty track they are taking here. I had zero : interest in Tomb Raider before. This looks far more interesting to me : anyway. Nope, I'm wrong. While the old man trying to catch you as you jump is a mentor at some point in the fiction, I guess he's the captain of the ship. I guess some random faceless deckhand lifted her out of the water, weird. I dunno. From the official site, "Tomb Raider explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor."

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