Religious Icons?
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Religious Icons?
Even though I know in the end that religious Icons had something of a role in Alyssa's death...or, whatever it is you'd say happened to her, I did notice something curious.
All through out the movie, begining at the first with the lit cross, and to the very end; the movie was FULL of religious icons, Crosses mostly, though there were also pictures like in the school and other locations.
Did anyone else pick up on this? It seemed around the time the "Demons" would come, you'd always have a rather conspicious religious icon of some sort. I wonder if this was a kind of subliminal hint, with Alyssa/ Demon Child thing (Alyssa's hate) being the devil and the crosses pointing to something else.
Fresh from the movie, these are the locations I can remember off the top of my head.
Lit cross at the waterfall
Religious passages on a billboard in front of the tree
Cross on the school window (ok, that's not exactly a cross. Close enough)
Religious passage above the door
Picture of "God" in the main office
Heaven on the hopscotch game
Rose Praying in the bathroom (Technically)
The "cross" (again) in the hotel
The "painting" of a witch being burned
The "cross" on the thing which Alyssa was burned on.
Rose's crucifix (only visible at times)
A series of crosses in the graveyard,
Cross on the church (duh)
A small notation at the hospital about the chapel (on the map)
Ok, that's the ones I can remember off hand...Think I'm crazy, reading too much into it or what?
All through out the movie, begining at the first with the lit cross, and to the very end; the movie was FULL of religious icons, Crosses mostly, though there were also pictures like in the school and other locations.
Did anyone else pick up on this? It seemed around the time the "Demons" would come, you'd always have a rather conspicious religious icon of some sort. I wonder if this was a kind of subliminal hint, with Alyssa/ Demon Child thing (Alyssa's hate) being the devil and the crosses pointing to something else.
Fresh from the movie, these are the locations I can remember off the top of my head.
Lit cross at the waterfall
Religious passages on a billboard in front of the tree
Cross on the school window (ok, that's not exactly a cross. Close enough)
Religious passage above the door
Picture of "God" in the main office
Heaven on the hopscotch game
Rose Praying in the bathroom (Technically)
The "cross" (again) in the hotel
The "painting" of a witch being burned
The "cross" on the thing which Alyssa was burned on.
Rose's crucifix (only visible at times)
A series of crosses in the graveyard,
Cross on the church (duh)
A small notation at the hospital about the chapel (on the map)
Ok, that's the ones I can remember off hand...Think I'm crazy, reading too much into it or what?
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Did anybody notice the color purple? Isn't it a 'holy' color... well it was pretty much the only color seen in Silent Hill. When Aleesa was first talked to, she was next to purple cloths, and in every scene where Rose is exploring by herself, it is seen also. Even the 'cult leader' (sorry don't remember her name) is wearing it also. I may be reading too much into it, but I do know that purple is a significant color.
Laban here, registered finally and decided to post a bit more thoughts on the movie.
Unless I am sorely mistaken, the hopscotch game was in the original Silent Hill for PS1.
You're right though, it was somewhat disturbing to go from "hell" to "heaven" in the game. The color purple wasn't something I had noticed, but I did formulate a rather curious theory about the movie. See other post.
Unless I am sorely mistaken, the hopscotch game was in the original Silent Hill for PS1.
You're right though, it was somewhat disturbing to go from "hell" to "heaven" in the game. The color purple wasn't something I had noticed, but I did formulate a rather curious theory about the movie. See other post.
Well, first of all, I think there's quite a distinct difference between actual Christian references in the movie, and the cult's symbols. I don't think their cross is Christian, I don't think their "God" was the same, and the passage above the door is a script the cult came up with, it's not actaully in Scripture.
However, someone also noted that when the door refairs itself during the world shift after Pyramid Head, it appears he had made a cross.
Also, there's a reference to the Trinity through the three dimensions and the three persons of Alessa.
And finally, someone else noted the possibility of the barbed wire referencing to a crown of thorns.
However, someone also noted that when the door refairs itself during the world shift after Pyramid Head, it appears he had made a cross.
Also, there's a reference to the Trinity through the three dimensions and the three persons of Alessa.
And finally, someone else noted the possibility of the barbed wire referencing to a crown of thorns.
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Zoroastrianism. That's it.
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It's from Turkey, I think. They're the sect that does the "whirling dervish" dance right? BTW, I think I remember that the chief god of Zoroastrianism is actually Ahura Mazda, not Marduk.
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