Set Fire to the Rain

This week we are going to do a massive project in Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. I got canto XVI which describes Dante going through the third ring of the seventh circle of hell. Where the sodomites are. people who are violent towards nature. Which I suppose includes homosexuality and beastiality. Which are, of course, highly disputed topics. dante describes their punishment as fiery flakes raining down on hot sand where sodomites were forced to walk lest they be punished.

Dante first recognizes three florentines, all three of them renowned for their skill in battle. They had their hands joined to form a wheel. Dante wanted to go down with them and embrace them. But he didn't for fear of the pain and heat of the boiling hot sand and flakes.

Your Own Personal Satan

        My personal hell would be a place of deep suffering. I would be hung upside down by my ankles and punched in the testicles repeatedly endlessly. It never becomes monotonous, each punch feels just as bad as the last. All the while listening to a Nicki minaj song featuring lil wayne. People admitted into this hell are people who have committed adultery, intentional murder, incest, and other unforgivable sins. Hell is designed for the sickest of the sick. Therefore the punishments will be the sickest of the sick.
        In order to get into hell one must commit a sin of massive proportions. This can be intentional murder, theft, adultery, incest, gluttony, rape, greed, fraud, and other major sins. These sins are unforgivable and deserve the punishment of hell. Minor sins may be partially forgiven. With some time, minor sinners may repent and finally reach heaven. But the Major sinners are never forgiven.
        The punishments are more psychological than painful. Although physical pain is present. Hell will look into your mind and find your psychological weakness, and use it as a tool for your misery. Whether you are afraid of heights, insects, snakes, spiders, tight spaces, or loneliness. Hell is infinite and inescapable. It is the ultimate, and final punishment.
        Hell's environment adapts to each persons punishment. It could be a steamy hot jungle filled with insects and vicious creatures. No life supporting resources, so you feel pain of hunger and thirst, yet you cannot die. It could be being forced to crawl through a cement pipe, with barely enough room to crawl. Nothing to bandage your hands and knees which are constantly torn open from the crawl. Hell adapts to each individual.

        No one may escape. Hell is for the ones who have committed sin to the point of no return. For the ones who can never be forgiven. Someone who deserves hell deserves the eternal torment. Those who has the heart to do something that would put them in hell deserve their heart to be broken down in pain and tortured

        A symbol to represent my hell would be a hydra. Because of the multiple different types of pain coming at you at once. A hydra's number of heads vary from 5 to 100, depending on who you are reading. The hydra represents multiple threats converging on one target. which is a good analogy to the multiple levels of pain and torment in hell.

        

         The evilest of the evil are in my hell. Vicious people who have no desire other than to watch the world burn. People who think the best way to perfection is the mass murder of a people. People like Hitler and Pol Pot. People whose views are so corrupted that they think killing is the way to utopia. People whose "happiness" involves taking others's happiness away.

reservoir doge

This past week we worked on our tragic hero posters, ours featured a gun taking up the top and left part of the poster. The rest we filled with blood, pictures and duct tape. The overall process of making the poster was pretty good and efficient, we all brought supplies and did our part. And the end result, I thought, was good.
The movie, Reservoir Dogs was a pretty good fit for the tragic hero format, Mr. Orange starts in a place of semi-status, he's an undercover cop that's very cocky. His Hamartia is his pride. His reversal of fortune is when he gets shot by a civilian. His reversal of intention is then when he shoots that civilian dead. The entire flipping movie is a scene of suffering. Catastrophe occurs after everyone shoots each other in a mexican standoff

Shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize

This week we are starting our group posters. I finally watched my movie, Reservoir Dogs, I thought it was really good. It takes place in the aftermath of a diamond heist in an abandoned warehouse, where a character lies dying of a bullet wound. One gangster goes insane and tortures a cop to Stuck in The Middle With You, and four kill each other at once in a rather climactic ending. Overall, it was a good movie, I thought it was going to be a more macabre movie than it was, but I'm okay without much gore.

The Tragic hero we chose was Mr. Orange (they had been given color names so as to not give up their identity). He was an undercover cop who ratted out the heist, but his plan went sour when a civilian shot him in the gut during a hijack. He spent the third quarter of the movie unconscious and having flashbacks to his undercover training. and finally in his dying moments he confesses to Mr. White, his only sympathizer, that he is in fact a cop.

WARNING: Video contains severed ears, poor dancing, and spoilers