Thursday, November 18, 2010
Divine Allegory
Now the couple Jof and Mia as well as their son Michael are a part of a thinly veiled allegory for Joseph, Mary and Jesus. First off Michael, the infant is born to do great things, and is almost predestined. His father Jof even said that the boy will become an acrobat. He doesn't really have a choice, but did Jesus have a choice to become the savior? Jof too, because of his name among other things has come to represent Joseph. The man is a cuckold, plain and simple. Early on in the film we see Scat sleeping next to Jof's wife Mia, and you as well as I know that they were doing more than just sleeping. Joseph too is a cuckold because hi wife cheated on him for God, but really didn't know or care, and just treated Jesus like his son. The way that Mia fits into this is that she is Mary. Why, because Mia sounds like Mary, is married to "Joseph" and her son is "Jesus".
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This is nonsense. There's not the slightest evidence that Mia and Skat are sleeping together in any sense besides all of them crashing inside a wagon. The middle ages were not a time of privacy. People and animals tended to huddle together.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, the concept of the full night's sleep may be a modern thing. Middle age chronicles talk about the first sleep and the second sleep, implying that people went to sleep early and woke up around midnight. Got up, ate something poked the fire, or whatever, and then went to sleep again for a while. Whether this was universal, or not, or the result of vermin, cold, hunger, bad mattresses, or what, I don't know. But so many things we believe to be universal to all cultures and times, are not. Meanwhile, your post is almost as absurd as the song that Mia and Jof sing during the show.
Hmm, well I beg to differ, because you even said that Jof was a cuckold when he was wearing those horns. Despite that I did feel like this post was a bit... wrong.
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