>> women feel strangely inhuman. More like . . . goddesses. Fates. Something powerful but unknowable, and frightening<<
YES! Thanks for saying that. I was trying to put my finger on how I felt re: the strange role of women in the film -- particularly the meaning of that odd sand sculpture -- and this does it nicely.
Did you notice the Pre-Raphaelite set-up in the church when JP (I can't remember the character's name) tells the teenage love interest she can't leave? He's kneeling in front of her in the same posture as the Courtly Lover in the stained glass window behind him. This makes me think that if women are goddesses, it's in the sense of a Pre-Raphaelite/Victorian idealization of women, not in the sense of them having much actual power over the men in their lives.
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YES! Thanks for saying that. I was trying to put my finger on how I felt re: the strange role of women in the film -- particularly the meaning of that odd sand sculpture -- and this does it nicely.
Did you notice the Pre-Raphaelite set-up in the church when JP (I can't remember the character's name) tells the teenage love interest she can't leave? He's kneeling in front of her in the same posture as the Courtly Lover in the stained glass window behind him. This makes me think that if women are goddesses, it's in the sense of a Pre-Raphaelite/Victorian idealization of women, not in the sense of them having much actual power over the men in their lives.