Watching Pirates of the Caribbean

[katikat]

At World's End

I'm glad that I didn't go to see it in the cinema. Why? Not because it's a bad movie, just the opposite. But because I bawled like a little kid, literally. Actually, I'm still bawling. Man, I didn't expect THAT...

I can't believe they really separated them, Will and Elizabeth, after everything they went through. He will live forever, with just one day ashore every ten years, she's mortal and she'll die one day and he'll be alone forever. I can't believe that the writers really did that, after they married and all... I know it could be said that at least he didn't die, but honestly, I'm not sure this is not fate worse than death in many ways...

And Jack totally redeemed himself by giving up the gift of immortality to save Will. That's another thing I couldn't believe, that he really did that, that he actually cared about Will and Elizabeth so much that he gave them at least this. His expression when Davy Jones stabbed Will... For the first time, Jack lost his humor completely. I guess he had never lost anyone he actually cared about before - or maybe he hadn't even realized until that point that he cared?

I really hope that a) Jack finds the Fountain of Youth and either lets Elizabeth drink from it or drinks the water himself so that Will would have at least someone out there or b) that Will gets together with Calypso after Elizabeth dies, they always seemed to have a soft spot for each other and they are both immortal, after all...

This was quite a dark movie, and really sad. After the first one, which was really a comedy, a didn't expect that. The fourth one seems to be a comedy again but I'm not going to see it for reasons I mentioned in my first post: Elizabeth and Will aren't in it and for me, PotC has always been about their love story...

Comments

[keire_ke]

There is the theory that because Will did his duty (ferried the dead), he won't have to abide the ten years/on day rule, or will be released from the post. It's little less sad, that way. :)

I did love the ending. It seemed right, painful, but right.

[katikat]

From what I read, the writers said that Will and Elizabeth got to live together in the end, because she did wait for him the ten years, which was a way to break the curse. Only because Calypso didn't wait for Davy Jones was he cursed to ferry the souls for eternity. They didn't make it clear enough in the movie.