sure life might get boring but you would still be alive.
maybe they need to mix things up with this immortality curse *beep* like maybe i curse you with eternal loneliness or eternal ugliness where you will live on forever and be eternally disgusting looking or turn someone into an eternal virgin or something like that
I think immortality would be a curse for someone who seek death.
From the movie this witch hunter wants to die in peace knowing he avenged his family, but the witch queen took that away from him, so in his perspective immortality is a curse.
Usually immortality is seen as a curse because you live on as everyone around you dies. Every relationship will end and you will be the one that carries on as the world turns to dust. Of course people forget how *beep* hard it would be to hide as an immortal anymore. Getting the necessary documents to create a new identity would be hard and the government would find it weird that a guy who is supposed to be 120 years old looks like a 20-something. Either you end up in prison for identity theft or you get found out and then disappear because you will be experimented on.
shareRegarding the government, remember he's had 800 years to build up some funds - he should be pretty loaded by now. I'm sure he has more than enough money to get fake IDs, change countries every now and then. It's not like the government is tracking every single citizen - especially if they haven't done anything to bring attention to themselves.
(Then again Vin Diesel was driving a pretty fancy car, so I guess he's not about maintaining a low profile)
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Immortality has a certain psychology that over time will just get worse and worse, especially for someone who is religious. A religious person, for example, eventually wants to rest in peace, which is impossible if you're immortal. But beside the religious aspect there are so many elements of being immortal that would drive someone crazy.
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shareAt some point there isn't anything you haven't done a million times before, so boredom becomes a factor. You eventually dread becoming involved with somebody, because you know they will eventually leave you in one way or another, so isolation sets in. Immortality looks cool from our limited perspective, but it doesn't take much imagination to see how it would be burden given enough time.
Chthonic gods have set their sights on making me a slave to their ways.
I'm sure you'd enjoy immortality and indestructibility for quite a long time, but I think you would eventually just want to end it.
Also, the curse makes a lot more sense later in the movie. Turns out Diesel's character is just holding onto the Witch's immortality for her. She wasn't cursing him, she was binding them together.
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This is a common idea in fiction. Vin Diesel even mentions where he took the idea from Tolkien. The idea that immortality means you are cursed to see anyone you ever love die (wives, children, anyone). Anyplace you hold dear withers at some point. You may not think it would be bad, but that is the idea anyway. Tolkien's idea was that mortality was a gift that allowed you to fit in with the mortal world around you.
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