The first scene of LEMONADE is essentially one of …show more content…
Fasted for 60 days. Wore white. abstained from mirrors, abstained from sex, slowly did not speak another word. In that time my hair, I grew past my ankles. I slept on a mat on the floor. I swallowed a sword. I levitated. Went to the basement, confessed my sins, and was baptized in a river. I got on my knees and said amen and said I mean. I whipped my own back and asked for dominion at your feet. I threw myself into a volcano. I drank the blood and drank the wine. I sat alone and begged and bent at the waist for God. I crossed myself and thought I saw the devil. I grew thickened skin on my feet I bathed in bleach and plugged my menses with pages from the holy book, but still inside me, coiled deep, was the need to know… are you cheating on me?
This scene seems to aim to confuse the viewer due to the religious contradictions. She speaks on both drinking blood as well as plugging in pages from the holy book into her bloody uterus. This is satanic behavior. She refers to God, but this is not the God that resides in Heaven. She is referring to Lucifer who expects blood