The Passion of Darkly Noon
by Philip Ridley
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Actor: Ashley Judd, Brendan Fraser, Viggo MortensenDirector: Philip Ridley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Movie Reviews of The Passion of Darkly Noon
Movie Review: No faith without blood
Summary: 5 Stars
The passion of darkly noon is a beautiful movie that draws you in to its gorgeous locations and settings, before revealing the truth behind its lovely exterior.
Darkly noon (Brendan Fraser) is a young man whose family was brutally shot and killed, while the local townspeople where busily mutilating the religous sect he was from, Darkly noon, an innocent, rather child-like individual escapes. We find him running through a set of jewel-like lush forests where he collaspes and gets picked up by Jude. A young man who delivers supplys to Callie(Ashley Judd) and Clay (Viggo Mortenson). Two lovers that live for themselves in little house where Clay builds coffins for a living.
Callie sees the distrough and feverish Darkly and decides to take him under her wing. This is the start of a passionate desire that Darkly developes for Callie, who does nothing but try to be a mother and friend to him. Enter Clay, who lets Darkly stay on after Callie's insistance and tries to draw the younger man out of himself and his moody persistance of silence.
Darkly's anger and resentment towards Clay, and Callie's love for him comes to a head when he sees the couple kiss. Not knowing how to deal with the desire and anger that is pervading his body, Darky runs off into the wood to get away and try to get a grip on his emotions that are overrunning his soul.
There he finds a woman that we find out to be Clay's mother, and who accuses Callie of being a witch. Her reason being that she killed her husband, and stole Clay away from her with her seductive charms. Darkly listens, and grasps onto her words like a drowning man. Beliving that it is not he that is in the wrong, but Callie, for she is truly a witch, and has cast a spell on his soul. Having grown up in very religous atmosphere, Darkly believes his lust is from the Devil, and that Callie is trying to tempt him to his death. Visions of his dead parents help to reinforce such beliefs, and Darkly goes on a rampage of death and destruction.
The ending to this movie relieves some of the darkness that penetrates this film, but not much. Its a sad ending no matter what happens, and it is doubtless that either way with this movie turns out will leave you feeling rather depressed.
As a side note, this movie does have some rather intense scenes, such as when Darkly covers his body with barbed wire, wearing it like a coat. The end sequince where he takes off his shirt and we see the decaying flesh around the punctures is rather, well, much. However, the movie was very well written, with riveting performences from Brendan Fraser, Viggo Mortenson and Ashley Judd. The score for the film is really haunting also, which only enhances the overall effect of the movie.
A very good movie for not only fans of Brendan fraser, but those that enjoy good movies and well written plots.
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