These activities and heavy religious emphasis suggest the idea of deities of the Christian faith supporting these acts and their occurrence by means of presence in the location they occur and/or representation of the artifacts used for the action. This poses the potential to lead towards the relations of Christian morals with heavy violence and suggesting that the church as a whole no longer recognizes suicide as a form of sin.
Some say that these religious artifacts that are seen throughout this movie are meant as a means of consciousness to be observed by the characters actively and by the audience passively (Baker). They are presented to the characters as their God looks down upon them and their decisions with contempt as they look back up with similar contempt. This results in the characters, both having knowledge of the ‘sins’ that they commit with …show more content…
An example of these ideals ever-presence is the single-gendered family brawls and fights. In these ordeals we are shown only the men of the respective families fighting in the interactions between them. The women are, in fact, seldom seen, if seen at all, and when they are shown during the fights they are portrayed as having a secondary role, such as when Ted Montague reaches for his “long sword” in the very first scene and his wife convinces him to not engage, yet after the brawl only the patriarchs and the instigators of the offense are shown in Captain Prince’s office. Such perpetuates the stigma of men having the leadership role in both their relationships and in everyday life. This is heavily reinforced later in the film by the Montague patriarch forcing his will upon his daughter to either marry Dave Paris or to be disowned. He even goes so far to impose his will as to strike both the nurse and his wife and throw his daughter to the ground, all the while screaming and threatening
Some say that these religious artifacts that are seen throughout this movie are meant as a means of consciousness to be observed by the characters actively and by the audience passively (Baker). They are presented to the characters as their God looks down upon them and their decisions with contempt as they look back up with similar contempt. This results in the characters, both having knowledge of the ‘sins’ that they commit with …show more content…
An example of these ideals ever-presence is the single-gendered family brawls and fights. In these ordeals we are shown only the men of the respective families fighting in the interactions between them. The women are, in fact, seldom seen, if seen at all, and when they are shown during the fights they are portrayed as having a secondary role, such as when Ted Montague reaches for his “long sword” in the very first scene and his wife convinces him to not engage, yet after the brawl only the patriarchs and the instigators of the offense are shown in Captain Prince’s office. Such perpetuates the stigma of men having the leadership role in both their relationships and in everyday life. This is heavily reinforced later in the film by the Montague patriarch forcing his will upon his daughter to either marry Dave Paris or to be disowned. He even goes so far to impose his will as to strike both the nurse and his wife and throw his daughter to the ground, all the while screaming and threatening