Three
permutation conspicuously absent from that climactic song: who knows and knows not that they know is asleep; wake them (o sleeper, the daytime has come!). what transpires in daylight? miracle of the scarlet thread washed white as snow, kind of. curious about this weird positioning of leviticus against joshua, but not really. jericho’s walls don’t fall, because in three, as in (but not nearly as in) batman begins, characters only fall so they can learn to pick themselves up. 352
i’d dislike that more if not for discount <PERSON> scoring the final surgery; there’s something deliberately discomfiting there, though i’m not sure the discomfort leads anywhere productive. maybe it just spins around and around a hospital lobby, and tells each character ‘go in peace; be warm, and not shot’, and watches how beautifully their bodies turn about in unfair play. and i’m being unfair, too, because that sequence really is magnificent, but i think it might’ve been more powerful as a standalone short. trust our empathy. we can catch the contradiction. 1009