Themes
Amando de Ossorio described the film as having "political aspects" evidenced by the mayor who looks to abandon the town and save himself when the Templars attack.
Author and critic Jamie Russell sees the thematic link between sex and death in the films as "a pessimistic vision in which youth and beauty are always destroyed." Russell goes on to assert that, "sex becomes nothing more than prelude… that brings us ever closer to the final end," and that,"flesh is simply a reminder of our own mortality."
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Famous quotes containing the word themes:
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)