Wise Blood

[Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com]

During my bi-monthly check of the p-list, I find a reference to Wise  Blood. 
 
_http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flannery.htm_ 
(http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flannery.htm) 
 
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080140/usercomments_ 
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080140/usercomments) 
 
I loved this movie!  Brad Dourif, the actor who played Hazel  Motes (voice of 
Chucky in Child's Play, Bride of..., &c.) had  a wonderful ragged edge about 
him.  I had experienced the return from  a military hitch & was pretty ragged 
myself, so I could empathize  with this sense of alienation & sheer nihilistic 
hatred of normal  existence.  Also, the idea of a "Church of Truth Without 
Jesus Christ  Crucified" of my own seemed a really cool idea at the time.
Amy Wright as Sabbath Lily is perfectly demented.
 
All in all, a perfectly unseemly deconstruction of the ridiculously  
successful Christian sect. 
 
{The term "wise blood" itself comes from the idea that women became very  
wise at menopause, when they no longer shed the lunar "wise blood" but kept it  
within.  See the article on the Crone in The Woman's Encyclopedia of  Myths and 
Secrets by Barbara G. Walker}
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