What was the meaning of the lenin imagery - the head of dead marshal with sticks around like an aura...??
Why twin marshals?
"Goddamned religious icon" - dialogue may be communism's transformation to a powerful religious totalitarianism...
i am not sure...
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LENIN? Ha ha, I really didn't think of that.
No, I don't think it was an intentional reference to him, more like traditional saints' icons normally represent them being hairless or semi-bald and the big moustache being quite normal at that time and place.
Not too sure about the twins idea: it could have something to do with a particular religious reference or with Blake's poetry, I just though it as an ironic touch when I saw them.
The film is obviously scattered with mystical, symbolic references to William Blake's poetry tied up with the "decadent Western world" that he vividly expressed in his work, I don't think we should necessarily stretch our interpretations too far on every corner, though.
I didn't understand the reference either, but the image did remind me of this:
http://static5.depositphotos.com/1007526/459/i/450/dep_4594986-Vladimir-Lenin.jpg
- a Pioneer Movement member's pin, depicting Lenin, inscribed "Always Ready".
Good spot, but that iconology is in turn derived from baroque paintings and sculptures of saints' heads.
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