DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.

Thoughts on the Movie “Constantine”

Free write 12/16/18

 

I must have watched the movie “Constantine” a million time in the past year.  I watch it on Netflix whenever I feel like escaping reality for a while, and (I think) since I watch it so often, it stays on Netflix- luckily- because I would like to watch it again.

I know Keanu Reaves is the main actor, alongside an actress of whose name escapes me.  To me, it feels like one of those movies where there is a big-name actor acting alongside a lesser-known one.  I don’t know detective Dodson’s real name, but she seems pretty confident and displaced alongside Keanu Reeves. 

I think the plot is pretty interesting- there is a lot of content that is a bit dark yet interesting- the Spanish words that the possessed girl at the beginning of the movie I didn’t quite catch until the last two or three times I watched the movie- I think the words go, “Momma tiene attencion”- meaning; “Mama has attention.”  This is how Keanu Reeves character of a semi-angel is introduced- him being an angel that maintains the “balance.”  He sends “half-breeds” to hell if they deserve to go there.  The one most interesting scene of the movie is when he tells a room full of soon to be deportees that they need to go to hell or he will send them back himself- and when all of their eyes turn red instead, he turns on the fire water that sprayed above them, that also was holy water because “Chaz Kramer” blessed it with a blessed cross that he stuck in a tub of water. This seen amazes me- though it is only in the first minute or so that the scene is amazing- because John Constantine is alone in a whole room full of people who belong in hell, and he doesn’t look scared, and they don’t seem intimidated by this star of an angel who isn’t quite an angel.  It is like, the two most opposite forces against each other, but there is nothing that gets between them until the holy water starts spraying in their faces so that their faces start to melt.  It is just that tone, an undertone, that shows itself- it’s to say, there is all the opposition in the world right there, and none of it manifests itself until the holy water shows these peoples’ true faces.  After watching the movie for the millionth and seventeenth time a month or two ago, I had a dream where I was an angel type person who was assigned to walk people that are good through “that Part” of hell- the part of hell where anything goes because people aren’t organized and placed in the place where they belong- whether that be the part of hell where people go to be safe or because of shame they have for personal reasons, or to the other part- where truly bad people go, people that have no soul- never did and never would.  I dreamt that I was assigned this task, and this was why I was special- because this part of hell didn’t scare the hell out of me (I don’t mean to speak figuratively).  Instead, in the dream, that part of hell amazed me, because there was no one in charge, there are no rules to follow, because at that point, anything goes because no one knows where one truly belongs.  The first time I had a dream about this type of thing, I was alone with a girl – I think it was her- the one that almost beat the crap out of me by a Walgreens by my house.  I ran in the Walgreens to avoid her- but in the dream she was more docile, it seemed like she wasn’t angry like before, and most interesting, there was a sign on a wall in a language I didn’t recognize- I always associate it with French but I am not sure if it was or not- but the way that the tone of the situation was so free and unlike I have every experienced- I was amazed and wish to go back to it all the time.  It was one of those happy amazing dreams that you remember the feeling of but only a few details recollect themselves about the actual content of the dream.  

This is why I feel like I can relate to John Constantine- the main character of the movie. 

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.