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Date Posted: 09:14:29 03/20/01 Tue
Author: D.Th.
Subject: Movie Reviews
In reply to: OPB 's message, "Question for DTh" on 07:45:52 03/20/01 Tue

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Alas, I have not yet seen Eyes Wide Shut, so I can render no verdict. I respect every Kubrick film I've ever seen, so I really should get around to that one soon.

The best mass-market occult flick to appear in recent years, so far as I know, is The Ninth Gate. It was nothing like the horror-action genre piece that the trailers suggested. I would compare its tone and substance to Angel Heart, but I preferred the more enigmatic resolution in The Ninth Gate. Also, Angel Heart (in the end) was a little too accepting of the pseudo-Christian metaphysical paradigm for my taste.

I did get to see Quills the other day, before it left the theaters. I thought it was wonderful, though rather fictionalized in its treatment of Sade's demise. The house was pretty empty, but there was a couple down the row from me who seemed genuinely outraged at Sade's anti-Christian blasphemies. They also gasped in shock at the brief, but distinct, full frontal male nudity. I wanted to console them so, to let them know that Jehovah-Cthulhu is all solicitude for their hang-ups and superstitions, but I didn't think I could quite match the eloquence of the movie.

(I had to laugh at the government official who declaimed the immoral spuriousness of Sade's Justine. Anyone who thinks that book is about something other than morality and virtue hasn't really read it.)

Love is the law, love under will.

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