Barbarella (1968) Movie Review

It is time again to review a movie that contains a maze or labyrinth. Today we look athe the cult calssic fantasy movie from 1968, Barbarella starring Jane Fonda.

Barbarella (1968) (IMDB)

Barbarella movie poster

Describing a movie like this can be difficult. It takes place in the year 40,000 and since I do not have a time machine (but would not admit if I did), I cannot say for sure that this is how people will dress in the future, but this looks like a fashion show gone wrong. But, someone would say the same thing about today from 1920, 1820, 1720, 1620…so what do I know.

I know that this is a bad movie. The kind of movie that if you are forced to watch it you do yourself a favor and watch it at a minimum of 1.5X speed. Jane Fonda looks great in 1968. You see a lot of her because she doesn’t seem to have enough clothing most of the time. Not to interrupt myself, but shouldn’t I mention the maze/labyrinth in the movie ?

When Barberella crash lands on a planet during her mission, she must find Durand Durand in the evil city of Sogo. Surrounding Sogo is a labyrinth that contains all the good people who have been expelled from the city because they are not evil. Barb needs to find a way out of the labyrinth and into Sogo. Some of the walls are made of people. Like Soylent Green. Did I ruin it ? It came out in 1973. Deal with it.

The music is terrible. The fashion is questionable. The acting is frightful. The special effects are horrid even adjusting for time, but the poster is kind of awesome !

I give this a 5/10. It is a fun watch if you don’t expect to see anything great.

Check out the movie trailer:

A Collection of Maze and Labyrinth Resources

Below is a list of websites and resources I have come across that I found helpful as I have researched various maze and labyrinth subjects.

labyrinthlocator.com

The leading worldwide search tool to find labyrinths near you or to plan a visit while you are on vacation. Includes locations, pictures, and contact information for over 6,000 labyrinths in an easy to search database. I have personally used this to find a nearby labyrinth to walk while I was on vacation.

Maize Map and Maze Play Maze locator

Between these 2 websites, you can find local corn mazes near you in the US, a perfect Fall activity !

veriditas.org

Non-profit dedicated to the spiritual aspect of walking labyrinths. Founded by Lauren Artress, author of the book Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice. Has an extensive calendar of events that include a pilgrimage to Chartres in France. Also offers facilitator training for leading spiritual labyrinth walks.

labyrinthsociety.org

Non-profit dedicated to “to support all those who create, maintain and use labyrinths, and to serve the global community by providing education, networking and opportunities to experience transformation” to quote their mission statement. Includes a wonderful events calendar that includes worldwide walking events.

www.mazegenerator.net

Exactly what the domain suggests, an online maze generator. You can select between 4 shapes, 4 styles of cells, along with the height and width.

labyrinthe.at

Labyrinth resource specializing in labyrinths in Austria. Wonderful for persons who are German speaking. Has a listing of labyrinth walking events in Europe, typically including Chartres Cathedral in France, as well as events in Austria and Germany.

hrp.org.uk

The historic royal palace website in England with a direct link above to the most famous maze in the world, The Hampton Court maze. Includes vistor information for tickets, and some historical information.

cathedrale-chartres.org

The Chartres Cathedral in France has the most famous church floor labyrinth. This pattern is thought to be the most copied labyrinth pattern. You can find pilgrimages there on many of the sites on this page, or you can plan a trip yourself on their website.

blogmymaze.wordpress.com

A blog about labyrinths from Erwin Reißmann and Andreas Frei. The cumulative amount of information is impressive and the research is excellent. Has been around since 2008.

relax4life.com

Site dedicated to holistic education and mindfulness that focuses on the healing power of labyrinths. They sell a variety of labyrinth themed products like labyrinth blankets, canvas labyrinths and an extensive collection of finger labyrinths.

sagebrushexchange.com

If you live near Kansas City, Missouri stop by the Prairia Labyrinth. Also explains the use of 7 chakras to spiritually explain the walk of a classical labyrinth.

paxworks.com

A little bit of everything labyrinth wise, with links to labyrinth themed books, music, videos, and a photo gallery.

Here are some of my most viewed posts that delve deep into topics:

The Ultimate Directory of Maze and Labyrinth Builders: The Top 13 Builders in the world

For anyone who wants to build a physical maze, this blog post will help you find the biggest and best designers and builders of things like stone labyrinths, hedge mazes, and corn mazes.

The 12 Most Important Retro Maze Video Games to Lose a Day With

You may not think of video games when you think of mazes, but there are many maze games, think Pac-Man, and this post highlights some of the most important.

Maze and Labyrinth Movies

A collection of over 120 reviews of movies that have either mazes or labyrinths as part of the story. For a sortable spreadsheet of all the movies listed here is the link to the google sheet.

44 Different Types of Mazes and Labyrinths

Not a comprehensive, but a good overview of the different types of mazes and labyrinths with examples.

And from this site:

How to make a Digital Maze (over 40 different types)

How to make a variety of Digital Labyrinths

The Surprising Benefits of Solving Mazes

7 circuit classical labyrinth

classical labyrinth

A Collection of Common (and uncommon) Maze terms

Sure, you could use a dictionary, but why not look right here for the maze and labyrinth term definitions you are wondering about. Certainly not a complete list, but it should include most things you are looking for.

ADJUSTABLE MAZES - Real world mazes (Often hedge mazes) that can be changed by using maze gates.

ANFRACTUOSITY - A winding channel or course as in a maze.

ARROW MAZE - A maze where you must follow the direction of the arrows to solve the maze. Or - A maze containing arrows to limit the direction a solver may take the pathways.

AXONOMETRIC - A type of grid that allows a maze creator to draw an object in 3 dimensions on a flat piece of paper by rotating the line of sight.

CAERDROIA LABYRINTH - A type of Welsh turf maze based on the Cretan labyrinth design.

CHAKRA-VYUHA - An Indian labyrinth pattern used to focus a mother during childbirth.

COLOR MAZE - A type of conditional maze that uses color and color patterns to determine path decisions you can make to move forward in the mazes.

CONDITIONAL MAZE - A maze where rules or conditions are established on where or how you can move.

CORN MAZE - (Maize maze in UK) - A maze made from the strategic planting of corn stalks (or alternatively the removal of corn stalks).

DEAD END - A path in a maze that ends without reaching the goal where you must turn back and choose a new pathway.

DEAD END FILLING - A method of solving a maze by filling in dead ends until only the correct pathway remains.

DIRECTIONAL MAZE - A maze with one way passages where you must follow the direction indicated. A type of conditional maze.

ENTRANCE - The start of the maze or labyrinth where you enter it, although not all mazes have an entrance !

EXIT - The goal of the maze where you exit. In a labyrinth the exit is typically in the same location as the entrance although there are some exceptions such as a Baltic Wheel Labyrinth.

FREE DRAWN - A maze that does not use a pre-determined grid pattern for structure.

GOAL - The end of a maze !

GRID - A frame of spaced blocks that create the backbone to the design of many maze types.

HEDGE MAZE - A maze whose barriers are made of hedge.

HAND ON WALL SOLVING METHOD - A method of solving a real world maze that works on any “SIMPLY CONNECTED” Maze.

HIDDEN MESSAGE MAZE - A maze where the solution forms a written message.

I'ITOI - The creator and God of the O'odham people who is the man standing in the Man in the Maze symbol.

IMAGE PUZZLE / IMAGE MAZE - A maze where the solution forms an image !

INTERACTIVE MAZE - A maze that changes as you move through it. Often achieved in WATER Mazes.

LABYRINTH - A maze with no decisions or junctions. Moving forward will get you to the goal.

LOOPS - A type of maze pathway that leads the solver back to the original location, essentially wasting time and not being closer to solving the maze.

MAZE GATES - Gates used to adjust mazes and change the paths allowing visitors to complete a maze multiple times.

MINOTAUR - A half bull / half human that in mythology was believed to live in the center of the labyrinth at Knossos.

MIRROR MAZE - A maze typically found in a carnival funhouse where the walls are made of mirrors to add complexity (and hopefully a bit of fun) for the solver.

ORIENTATION - Where you are in relation to your surroundings.

PATHWAY - The part of the maze or labyrinth that you travel on for physical paper and digital mazes.

PAVED STONE MAZE - A maze whose path is made of paved stone. borders may be made of earth/turf, ditches of water or stones of different colors than the path to differentiate them.

PUZZLE MAZE - Mazes that require some type of solving in order to determine proper movement in the maze. Examples are a Math maze, number maze, letter maze, and a block move maze.

SPIRAL - A common maze pathway design meant to confuse to solver as lines converge to a central point.

TREMAUX’S ALGORITHM - A maze solving algorithm by Charles Pierre Trémaux that is used by someone with no prior knowledge of a maze.

QUICK EXIT - In a real world maze, a quick exit takes you from the GOAL to the exit (often via a bridge or tunnel) so you don’t have to exit the maze by reversing your path.

REVERSE SOLVING - Solving a maze from goal to start, often to lower the difficulty level.

THESEUS - Greek hero who killed the Minotaur according to legend.

TROY TOWN (OR TROYTOWN) - A name commonly given to turf mazes, especially in England, because in popular legend the city of Troy was laid out in a confusing way to confuse attacking enemies.

UNICURSAL - A single-pathed way with no decision points or junctions. Commonly referred to as a Labyrinth in the US.

WEAVING MAZE - A type of maze where the pathways weave above and below each other and allow the solver to solve in another dimension.

For a more complete list of the different types of mazes and labyrinths with examples and videos I suggest this post:

44 Different Types of Mazes and Labyrinths

And also this page with some fun quotes:

Quotes about Mazes and Labyrinths

Quotes About Mazes and Labyrinths

Quotes about Mazes and Labyrinths

a maze of the word maze

Maze quotes:

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” - Buddha

“I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.” - Amanda Seales

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” - Honore de Blazac

“You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.” - Kevin Costner

“You can choose to live your life as a maze or a labyrinth - a maze with its confusions, wrong turns, dead ends and false hopes, or a labyrinth with its many turnings, but none of them wrong, a path with sure and certain knowledge of reaching and experiencing the center, home.”

-Rev Dr. Carole Ann Camp (Labyrinths from the Outside In)

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley”

- A.J. Cronin

“Perhaps we should stop telling people that they are simply mice, chasing cheese, in someone else’s maze

“What happens in a maze is beyond your control. What you can control is your reaction.”

“In the maze, there is only pursuit”

“Those who had designed the maze had done so for their own benefit and for their own purposes.

- Deepak Malhotra, I Moved Your Cheese

“I'm not dying in a f**king rat maze!”

- Quenten (character in the movie Cube)

“The maze is a symbol of life…happiness, sadness…and you reach your goal…there’s a dream there, and you reach that dream when you get to the middle of the maze…that’s how I was told, my grandparents told me that’s how the maze is.”

- Alfreda Antone, from Tohono O’odham tribe speaking abut The Man in the Maze

“Although most of us acknowledge the desirability of labyrinths, when it come down to it, we generally see our lives as mazes, not labyrinths

:”In a maze we lose ourselves, in a labyrinth we find ourselves”

- Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Living The Labyrinth

Mazes are for those who want to tune in to their innate sense of curiosity. Mediatate, learn, and reconnect with your sense of fun.”

Julie E Bounford, The Curious History of Mazes

"The maze is all around us, every choice we make, every turn we take, every path we follow."

- Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“La mente es un labrinto en el que cualquiera puede perderse” OR in English : “The mind is a labyrinth (used like maze) in which anyone can get lost”

- Atrociuos (2010) movie

“My life is like a maze that I continually think I've gotten out of only to find another corner right in front of me.”

- Abigail (Emma Stone), The Favourite

“People change in the maze. Find the cup if you can. But be very wary; you could just lose yourselves along the way.”

- Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"Life is a maze. There are many paths to take, but only one leads to your destination." - Unknown

"The maze is a symbol of the journey of life. It is a series of challenges that we must overcome in order to reach our destination." - Unknown

"The maze is a metaphor for the human condition. We are all lost in a maze, trying to find our way out." - Unknown

"The maze is a challenge, but it is also a journey of self-discovery. As we walk through the maze, we learn more about ourselves and our strengths." - Unknown

"The maze is a reminder that we are not alone. Others have walked this path before us, and they can help us find our way." - Unknown

"The maze is a symbol of hope. It shows us that there is always a way out, even when things seem hopeless." - Unknown

"The maze is a place of discovery. As we explore the maze, we find new things about ourselves and the world around us." - Unknown

"The maze is a place of both danger and opportunity. We must be careful not to get lost, but we must also be open to new experiences." - Unknown

"The maze is a place of transformation. As we walk through the maze, we are changed by the experience." - Unknown

11 Circuit Labyrinth

Labyrinth Quotes:

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
- Victor Hugo

"So, the Labyrinth is a piece of cake, is it? Well, let's see how you deal with this little slice..."

“You have thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth, before your baby brother becomes one of us... forever.”

“Tell me Sarah, what do you think of my labyrinth?”

-The Goblin King (David Bowie), from The Labyrinth

“With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.”
- Jeff Bridges

“The labyrinth is a vibrant flowerbed of creation and the perfect place to plant seeds for the future.”

- Lea Goode Harris, PH.D

“The labyrinth was designed by an intelligence we cannot fully understand. But this much I do know. The labyrinth is truly a tool for transformation”

-Lauren Artress, Walking a Sacred Path

“A labyrinth is not a maze. A maze is designed for you to lose your way; a labyrinth is designed for you to find your way”

-Lauren Artress, Foreword to Praying The Labyrinth

“Be open and follow, the labyrinth will take you places you don’t expect to go”

“They [Labyrinths] are symbols, spiritual tools, mathematical images, harmonic patterns, pathways of discovery, playgrounds of prayer.”

“ A BEAUTIFUL SPRITUAL TOOL has captured my attention and my heart. The labyrinth is its name.”

- Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Praying The Labyrinth

“The labyrinth may offer gifts that are not immediately obvious”

Labyrinths,… provide a wonderful haven where questions can be welcomed, honored, and explored”

- Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Pondering The Labyrinth

“Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth; There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk”

- William Shakespeare, from Henry IV Part One

“The labyrinth as a whole is a symbol of any things, and primarily it is a symbol of wholeness, oneness, your journey in life, and the interconnectedness of all of existence”

-Tony Christie, Labyrinth:Your Path to Self-Discovery

“The labyrinth is a material manifestation of a collective unconscious, of a message sent forth into the beyond.”

-Jacques Attali, The Labyrinth in Culture and Society

“All that is really required in walking the labyrinth is to show up, place one foot in front of the other, and breathe”

-Melissa Gayle West, Exploring the Labyrinth: A Guide for Healing and Spiritual Growth

Labyrinths are entrances to new phases of life”

-Uwe Wolff, from Mazes & Labyrinths (by Hohmuth)

“Stepping onto a labyrinth isn't normally associated with moving from one phase of life to another, but I do believe every walk involves acknowledging the possibility that you will be changed in some way, even if this may not immediately be apparent”

“Walking a labyrinth is often described as being a ‘metaphor for life’, in that we don’t know who might meet along our path, nor what experience we might enjoy”

“The labyrinth is accepting and embracing of all”

- Clive Johnson (from the book Labyrinth A - Omega)

“Recovering past life experiences is analogous to walking a labyrinth. You begin at an entry point, you walk in a weave back and forth until you arrive near the center, then back and forth outward again, then return in weaving toward the center again and backwards out again, until you finally arrive at the center. This center can represent the Self at the center of our being”

- Kathy Bornino from A Labyrinth of Lifetimes

“Well, the only way out of here is to try one of these doors! One of them leads to the castle at the end of the labyrinth, and the other one leads to... Ba-baba-BOOM! Certain DEATH!”

“The labyrinth is a universally imprinted archetype or theme illustrating our life’s journey towards spiritual development and completion”

“We can make choices about how we walk the labyrinth in the same way that we make choices about how we experience life.”

- Liz Simpson, The History of the Labyrinth

“How now Thersites? What, lost in the Labyrinth of thy furie?”

- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“Does the imagination dwell the most, Upon a woman won or woman lost? If on the lost, admit you turned aside, From a great labyrinth out of pride”

- W.B. Yeats

“The Labyrinth. A Path to your deepest wisdom.”

- www.veriditas.org/

“When you allow yourself to be who you truly are and not whom everyone else believes you should be, then you find your true self, hiding in the centre of the labyrinth formed by society’s lies encircling your essence”

- Rei , The Labyrinth: Rewiring The Nodes In The Maze Of Your Mind

“The chronicle of the labyrinth, and more recently, the maze, spans the past four thousand years, taking many twists and turns”

- Julie E Bounford, The Curious History of Mazes

“The mind is a labyrinth, ladies and gentlemen, a puzzle. And while the paths of the brain are plainly visible, its ways deceptively apparent, its destinations are unknown. Its secrets still secret. And, if we are honest, it is the lure of the labyrinth that draws us to our chosen field to unlock those secrets. Others have been here before us and have left us signs, but we, as explorers of the mind, must devote our lives and energies to going further to tread the unknown corridors in order to find ultimately, the final solution. We have to see, we have to know...”

- Dr. Philip Channard, Hellraiser II

"The labyrinth is a metaphor for the human psyche, with its many layers and hidden passages. It is a place of self-discovery and transformation." - Unknown

"The labyrinth is a place of peace and tranquility, where one can find solace and reflection." - Unknown

"The labyrinth is a place of mystery and magic, where anything is possible." - Unknown

"The labyrinth is a place of connection, where one can feel at one with oneself, with others, and with the universe." - Unknown

Quotes that fit doing a maze:

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
- Greg Anderson

”By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”
- Christopher Columbus

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
- Thomas Edison

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.”

 –Thich Nhat Hanh

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is no right or wrong path. There is only the path that you choose. Whatever you choose, there will be many opportunities for you to grow and expand”

- Quan Yin

“Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are, until someone finds you. But who'd ever think to look for me here?”

- Alice (from Alice in Wonderland)

“Instead of searching for what you do not have, Find out what it is you have never lost.”

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

“Do you maze ?” - Me


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