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Meaning of lightning crashes by live12/26/2023 ![]() Because, if we were to put words to his fears those words, would be a pleading. Jack was never been able to say “hello” to love. ![]() And, since he was a newborn those terrors have no words. With Ally, Jack lives out his early terrors about ever loving again. Drowned out/in his drinking to escape from it all, and even in his death. The refrains of his goodbye song play over and over in every separation/each time, he’s sure it is goodbye that he has lost her too. These fears and grief are resurrected/full force/when Jack falls in love with Ally ( Lady Gaga). No, I’ll never love again… Wordless Terrors A song about the mom he didn’t say goodbye to and couldn’t save. The silent octave chorus/the notes repeating over and over in his life-long struggles and in his ultimate suicide. This is his trauma his mother loss expressed in the final song in A Star Is Born.Īnd, in his song, we have the words of an infant’s grief felt only in his fears of love and in his inability to love himself. Goodbye is what Jackson is terrified of in every separation every absence every sign he can’t control the comings and goings of the one he loves. ![]() And, those hidden and unspoken beliefs that anyone needed (or loved) will suddenly be gone can ruin a life. A baby’s grief (living later in an adult mind) must be recognized by someone who hears and knows. Yes, babies feel they know when someone has disappeared even at birth. And, infant trauma with its terrors of loss and its panics in separations and absences takes residence deep inside in the undercurrents of symptoms one of them alcohol and drugs. In fact, unconscious memory is a very real thing engrained and living in feelings without words. Myth is that babies don’t feel and don’t remember but that’s not true. But he has no idea how much it affects every step of his life. Jackson’s Unknown GriefĪnd, that’s the way it is for Jack. That’s where the unconscious mind comes in. And, even more of the truth is, most often they don’t even know what it is. A man who doesn’t seem to care about himself, his career or anyone.īut, does anyone stop to ask: “what is Jack trying to drown out?” The reality is: no one alters their state of mind constantly if they aren’t seriously troubled by something. ![]() All we see is a man who can’t stay away from drinking. In fact, everyone wants a piece of him (well, maybe that’s not so great, but still…)Īs successful as Jack is, you’d think he’d be on top of the world right? Well, he’s not. That people love him that wherever he goes everyone knows him. “Infant trauma,” you might be asking? What could that have to do with Jackson Maine’s ( Bradley Cooper) problems? He’s a drunk he doesn’t even care that he’s a famous rock musician. The dissonant chords in Jackson Maine’s life and in A Star Is Born are his infant trauma playing over and over in his unknown grief terrors of separation unconscious guilt and fears of love. Only sometimes you can’t hear the words especially when your trauma is in infancy and then persists seemingly forever. Over and over forever.” Yet, that’s not only what happens in a song it’s also in the musical undertones that play inside a life octaves of the past singing their haunting song. And, really, Jackson had the right idea: “A song is only an octave. Yes, his brother Bobby said to the heartbroken, Ally: “It was Jack not you not me Jack and no one else.” But, that’s because he didn’t understand. Hanging himself wasn’t Jackson Maine’s fault. ![]()
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