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Even in fairly major details. Miller has departed from the precedent laid down by the Bible and Paradise Lost. Introducing Freudian psychology, he suggests that God's subconscious created the Tree of Knowledge and that Eve fell into temptation out of penis envy. He also implies that Cain was actually sired by Lucifer, and he ends the Cain-and-Abel offering scene with a chaotic and completely inexplicable orgy in which Cain starts fucking his mother" (as the Devil so delicately puts it). On the other hand. Miller remains remarkably true to Milton in his portrayal of Lucifer's character...
...early arguments with which Lucifer tries to wheedle power from God seem facile and merely clever, but toward the end he makes us question the justice of a God who, with full foreknowledge, tempts Cain to kill Abel. Played as a pretty-boy smart-ass by the top-billed Hal Holbrook, the Devil resembles a cross between a quick-talking, shifty-eyed lawyer and a slightly hip John Wayne. Holbrook appears appropriately serpentine even as he swaggers with self-esteem, but perhaps he could temper his over-confidence a little, considering he flubbed his lines at least three times...
Bible's first shepherd, slain by brother Cain, a jealous tiller of the soil. As a stand-in for St. Christopher, the bearer of the young Christ, Tiffauges must carry Tournier's most cumbersome load. This is the burden of innocence, the surprisingly heavy weight of the holy child, who is shouldered above the flood but also protects his carrier from sin and danger...
...sent him" and "our own moral strength," had asked for restraint, and the court agreed. In words intoned slowly to allow simultaneous translation into Japanese, Court President Abraham Frish said: "There is no punishment befitting the seriousness of the crime you have committed. This crime imprints the mark of Cain upon you and your employers and you shall never be cleansed...
...halt crime, we have to stop blurring the distinction between Cain and Abel. It was Cain who killed his brother...