It attacks the immune system; Jarman got toxoplasmosis. I believe he was the first documented human being to start going blind from it rather than suffering the more common brain infection, which made him a medical landmark, but was not much comfort at the time. He did not lose all his sight thanks to AZT, but he was still nearly blind by the time he made Blue (1993), his final film, in which all the narration is spoken against a blank blue background. I have not seen it. I know I will find it devastating, so I keep holding off. I've read his book about color, Chroma (1993), which somehow does not feel quite as final.
Well, the video's problematizing the whole notion of sin, at least as set up by society, I suppose, so…
I think this post was my discovery that the problematization is working on multiple levels: it's easy to see in the main narrative that Tennant's character is being tried (and burned) unjustly, but it eluded me until now that even the representation of the sins is making an argument.
Anyway, thanks for getting me to look at it again!
You're very welcome! I hadn't thought, honestly, very much about whether the mortal sins were supposed to be offenses of excess (in either direction) or inherently destructive, but then I kept watching this video and philosophy happened. I don't agree with the concept of sin as a thing that exists in the world, but I am in accord with the idea that almost any healthy behavior can be taken to unhealthy extremes and conversely that there are applications and reasons for almost everything human beings do.
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It attacks the immune system; Jarman got toxoplasmosis. I believe he was the first documented human being to start going blind from it rather than suffering the more common brain infection, which made him a medical landmark, but was not much comfort at the time. He did not lose all his sight thanks to AZT, but he was still nearly blind by the time he made Blue (1993), his final film, in which all the narration is spoken against a blank blue background. I have not seen it. I know I will find it devastating, so I keep holding off. I've read his book about color, Chroma (1993), which somehow does not feel quite as final.
Well, the video's problematizing the whole notion of sin, at least as set up by society, I suppose, so…
I think this post was my discovery that the problematization is working on multiple levels: it's easy to see in the main narrative that Tennant's character is being tried (and burned) unjustly, but it eluded me until now that even the representation of the sins is making an argument.
Anyway, thanks for getting me to look at it again!
You're very welcome! I hadn't thought, honestly, very much about whether the mortal sins were supposed to be offenses of excess (in either direction) or inherently destructive, but then I kept watching this video and philosophy happened. I don't agree with the concept of sin as a thing that exists in the world, but I am in accord with the idea that almost any healthy behavior can be taken to unhealthy extremes and conversely that there are applications and reasons for almost everything human beings do.