Good News Bible?


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Total guess, but my parents had a copy of that book (left over from my grandfather’s Catholic priest days, no doubt) that looked just like the one sitting on top of the TV. Don’t get too worked up about this. I’m just throwing it out there cuz the painting behind the book, Woman and Terrier, by Colville, is what he called his “Madonna and child”, so it’s probably just about that. Also, there’s a song on the film’s soundtrack here referencing Jacob’s Ladder.

One neat thing I just realized (May 2020) is that Hallorann has a copy of whatever this is next to his Europe book, which also appears in the Torrance library.


All that said, I suppose it would be fine to note that numerous of the art items seen and heard throughout the film have a connection to the bible. Many of the Krzysztof Penderecki songs on the film’s soundtrack directly relate to the bible’s myths, and there’s novels in the Torrance collection like In This House of Brede and My Name Is Asher Lev, or the Scientific American dealing with the Tower of Babel, that are all concerned with religion’s impact on our thinking. Goodness knows a huge part of my analysis has to do with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, so it’s really verging on text, not subtext.


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