Jeff wrote:Viewer discretion for this one, please. I've hesitated to post from Possession because of its disturbing content, but Isabelle Adjani's performance is so turbulent and even courageously berserk that, if you can bear it, you can't forget it.
Jeff wrote:Viewer discretion for this one, please. I've hesitated to post from Possession because of its disturbing content, but Isabelle Adjani's performance is so turbulent and even courageously berserk that, if you can bear it, you can't forget it.
We find out, at marker 3.25, that apparently not before the 1930’s would physicians have touched the heart, the physical one, in that surgeons had indoctrinated nolitangere: do not touch. The movie is sited in Nashville, Tennessee, during America’s Jim Crow period, and if that wasn’t enough to deal with, Rickman’s and Def’s characters’ partnership challenged the ancient doctrinal myth of nolitangere in Vanderbilt University’s lab, initiating the field of heart surgery by operating on blue babies: infants suffering a congenital heart defect that causes suffocation (Blue Baby Syndrome). Refer.