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...talisman that “Corinthians 17” predicts will usher in the rein of Mammon, son of Lucifer. (Don’t bother looking it up; it only exists, according to the film, in the version of the Bible found in Hell.) Such unabashedly bogus uses of Christian jargon pepper the movie: the gift of prophecy becomes the hottest new tool in forensics and criminology; while the plague imagery from Exodus becomes not a warning to repent, but simply a gross way for winged demonic beings to kill meddling humans...
...pseudo-religious shenanigans of Constantine, its most astounding trick thus far has been its successful evasion of criticism from Christian media watchdog groups. Since Constantine’s release last Friday, the usual religiously conservative voices of outrage at pop-culture blasphemers have largely been silent. In recent years, movies taking similar liberties with religious content have drawn highly publicized protest: the 1999 comedy Dogma, for example, spurred the Catholic League to circulate petitions and run New York Times ads calling for a boycott of the movie. The outrage at 1973’s The Exorcist was so widespread...
...does Constantine do it? After all, in the past few years, outrage abounded over the substantially less impressive magical doings of Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins, even as their “playing God” and messianic message lacked both the showy violence and overt Christian references of Constantine...
...those upset by the alleged immorality and/or illegality of the film—made me think otherwise. The precious few minutes devoted to exploring Deep Throat’s proclaimed nemeses—the prosecutors who drove it to the Supreme Court and the Christian activists who saw in Deep Throat the decadence and desensitization of an increasingly secular society—are jammed between long feel-good people studies of pornography’s early heroes...
...something. In Berlin, that was a much more common experience. Most of the shows we went to were filled with younger audiences because the theater there was both entertaining and relevant. Perhaps the most arresting piece we saw was at the Volksbuhne. It was a production of a Hans Christian Anderson piece, an epic three hours…what was most amazing about how physical and crazy the entire piece was, was that no matter what they did, it never seemed like they were doing anything that did not entirely belong within the world they had created onstage?...