Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 17:35:16 GMT
I loved loved loved this movie.
It had everything. Sex. Violence. A thoughtful message. It was competently crafted in terms of shot composition, editing, lighting, acting, etc (which is a bridge too far for many films these days.. looking at you, Marvel).
Paul Verhoven directed it, the man behind Basic Instinct, Robocop and Starship Troopers. So you know right off the bat there will be a rich layer of social satire. And this one does not disappoint.
The movie is about a woman who becomes a nun and starts having ecstatic visions, as well as a forbidden affair. I don't want to give anymore away.
One thing I will say.. the film takes aim at the notion that our bodies (and sex) are sinful. There is a dialectical point being made: the body is also part of God and so is sex.
This "appreciation of the whole man, body and all" is in direct contrast to the vision of man has somehow fallen or separate from god and the notion that our bodies and its urges are somehow evil, or sinful.
In reality, if there is a god she created us whole, meaning the body is also sacred and if the grand architect wants us to pro-create the urges she equipped us for that purpose are holy, too.
This movie points toward the need for a fully human spiritual expression.. one outside of the limits of institutional power.
If any movie can claim to be transgressive, this one can!
It had everything. Sex. Violence. A thoughtful message. It was competently crafted in terms of shot composition, editing, lighting, acting, etc (which is a bridge too far for many films these days.. looking at you, Marvel).
Paul Verhoven directed it, the man behind Basic Instinct, Robocop and Starship Troopers. So you know right off the bat there will be a rich layer of social satire. And this one does not disappoint.
The movie is about a woman who becomes a nun and starts having ecstatic visions, as well as a forbidden affair. I don't want to give anymore away.
One thing I will say.. the film takes aim at the notion that our bodies (and sex) are sinful. There is a dialectical point being made: the body is also part of God and so is sex.
This "appreciation of the whole man, body and all" is in direct contrast to the vision of man has somehow fallen or separate from god and the notion that our bodies and its urges are somehow evil, or sinful.
In reality, if there is a god she created us whole, meaning the body is also sacred and if the grand architect wants us to pro-create the urges she equipped us for that purpose are holy, too.
This movie points toward the need for a fully human spiritual expression.. one outside of the limits of institutional power.
If any movie can claim to be transgressive, this one can!
