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Let’s all take a moment to deconstruct the most Catholic film of the Year, Longlegs
Hollywood crypto-Catholic from Hollywood Catholic noble family, Nicolas Cage, in between his quests to find the Holy Grail, and Christian fellow traveler, Osgood Perkins, make a film.
“Manson had accomplices. His family,” says the protagonist, as this film is about the family. Not any particular family, it is about the family as the foundational, fundamental building block of the society. Although, obviously, there is a bit of the director/screenwriter (author’s) and Nicolas Cage’s family in it.
Antagonist is a makeup-wearing, flamboyant, Satanic transsexual who sings rock music to get into protagonist’s (your) home. Corrupting effect of rock music. Also, he’s an existentialist — and not the Kierkegaard kind either. (Although Protestantism started with Protestants like Soren Kierkegaard and has slippery-sloped its way into castrating yourself/paving over your vagina and naming your kids AE-121. I’m sorry but if there is no corresponding Saint, it just isn’t a real name. But I digress.)
Satan first corrupts one family, the protagonist’s family, which is vulnerable because there is no father in the home and their community (ultimately a collection of families) has failed them and, “No one ever came to visit [them.]” Mother is a free love hippie. Volkswagen and the whole thing that was the Hippie Revolution. Then they all start falling like dominos. Society ceases to function, complete anarchy and chaos, disorder, revolution, hell on earth and we all die.
- Painting of a stallion in the background — male potency
- ”Yup, still only me.”
Free-Masonic references:
- 33
- Pyramids
- Head cut off the trophy is a reference to Free-Masonic French Revolution and the guillotine
- One eye-signaling Satanist
- The work
- Masonic generational curse. First the mother is trapped, next the daughter.
Re-affirming gender roles:
>Is it scary being a woman FBI agent?
>Yes.
