As most people know, Tony Podesta has a 2,000lb Louise Bourgeois sculpture hanging in his stairwell. The Arch of Hysteria resembles one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims and it is the way that hysteria victims are often found to contort themselves. The position is technically known as “opisthotonos” and is associated with anything that would cause reduced brain function or injury to the nervous system. The arch is used also in some occult texts
Louise Bourgeouis has a well-known sculpture of a gigantic spider (complete with marble eggs) that is a travelling art installation. One theory is that the spiders are symbolic of a global web of powerful families and their creation of a new surveillance technology using broadcast soundwaves, called spider technology. The eggs symbolize the 20 national security agencies around the world who have access to these images.
The movie The Skin I Live in, starring Antonio Banderas, was inspired by and appears to be an homage to Bourgeouis, whose work is featured heavily. It is in the genre of horror. The movie references a favourite of the Satanists: black and white chequered floor and artist Mondrian. Without giving too much away, Banderas plays a doctor who tortures and rapes a victim in the most horrible ways.
What I've spoken about before, which is the ability of some of these 'artists' to depersonalise and dehumanise victims, happens also in this movie. Even movie critics say it:
Torture entails agony but what happens to Robert’s victim is something else: desensitization, a deficit of feeling, a harrowing loss of pain to go along with all Vera’s other losses.
And this, I think, is at the heart of the film, or perhaps I should say the heart of the problem of the film. The Skin I Live In is cold, cruel, detached; its grim sex scenes—if that is the right phrase: really they are scenes of molestation if not outright rape—are scenes of disaffection, discomfort, suffering. So the loss of sensation extends to pleasure too, and I would say that the problem of the film is its “visual un-pleasure,”..
imho, we have in the world a clear division of people working for the light and those working towards darkness and manipulation. We have to decide whose team we are on. This is a war of good versus evil, and it's scarily similar to what's in Revelations.
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UglyTruth ago
In IT parlance, spiders or crawlers are programs which scan web pages to build an information map that can be used in search engines or for research purposes.