Maleficarum Memento

This Stephen King adaptation is well-cast and does a nice job in presenting the idea/story of humanity's adversary contending with the resilient forces of civilization niceties.

Imagine that Satan (the Christian Devil) was challenged by the Greek god of endurance, Marathon; how would you characterize labor and treasure?

When I read urbanization-paranoia comic books such as Batman (DC Comics) which present fictional brooding places such as Gotham City seething with a criminality that mandates an analysis of profiteerism, I think about the ubiquitous symbolic relevance of "Needful Things" (1993).

Ed Harris plays a pensive law officer who realizes his town is going under by the influence of a strange visitor who may be the Devil and who is convincing the people that it is profitable to go to terrible lengths to obtain objects of great purity.

The Devil has become a great film character in Hollywood, being depicted in multiple movies. He's gained as much social colloquialization credence as fictional film villain avatars such as Leatherface, the chainsaw-wielding cannibal from Tobe Hooper's cult favorite horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), and the Joker, Batman's fictional arch-rival presented in the high-profile Tim Burton film "Batman" (1989) starring Jack Nicholson.

When I saw the "Needful Things" (1993) vignette of the young American boy who was willing to use his baseball pitching skills to create vandalism in exchange for treasure, I thought about how much I cherish my special Jim Abbott U.S. Olympics Team baseball card and how perhaps such valuation of a mercantile object tests my faith in capitalism (and fortune-hunting).




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Jim Abbott:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Abbott



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