Here they meet people in a way that differs radically from their pretentious hopes of achieving spiritual epiphanies and making mystical transactions with the land.
One minute, Tweedy seems to be making mystical or significant statements about life and death ("More than this exists", "I'll go to my grave" etc), the next he's referring to "diamond lights", which is surely not a reference to the 1987 hit by the Spurs duo Hoddle and Waddle.
I had come from Dellacrosse Central, from a small farm on the old Perryville Road, to this university town of Troy, "the Athens of the Midwest," as if from a cave — like the priest-child of a Colombian tribe I'd read about in Anthropology 203, a boy made mystical by being kept in the dark for the bulk of his childhood and allowed only stories — no experience — of the outside world.
I had come from Dellacrosse Central, from a small farm on the old Perryville Road, to this university town of Troy, "the Athens of the Midwest," as if from a cave like the priest-child of a Colombian tribe I'd read about in Anthropology 203, a boy made mystical by being kept in the dark for the bulk of his childhood and allowed only stories no experience of the outside world.
Between episodes, he made mystical interpretations regarding these phenomena and was proud to be a predestined.
Turning the angel into such an abstraction makes the mystical event almost plausible for an age of science.
And at the end of the film, when Sergey seems to have lost his way, he makes a mystical pilgrimage to the site at his grandfather's suggestion.
By making the Gospel story more occult, one also drains it of its cosmic significance; making it more mysterious makes it less mystical.
The group's chain-smoking twin leaders, Johnny and Luther Htoo, are fundamentalist Christians who claim to have mystical powers that make them immune to bullets and land mines.
Making a mystical leap but using scientific language, he declares that we are the environment.
