Sunday, March 23, 2008

Begotten

Watch it if you dare... I mean it.

This might actually give you nightmares. I just got hold of this whole film and I'm still wondering if I should watch it at night.



While the movie is not easily approached—lacking both dialogue and discernible cultural symbols—it does contain references to various religious and pagan myths. Relatively obvious Christian myths are present in the impregnation of Mother Earth by God, akin to the impregnation of Mary by the Holy Spirit. The same myth is partly present in ancient Egyptian mythology, where Isis impregnates herself with the penis of the killed god Osiris and gives birth to Horus.

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