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"I'd give my goddamn soul for a glass of beer" -Clear nonalcoholic

How do you know that Jack wasn't the only one who saw a window? Maybe everyone else saw a painting? Maybe the hotel was already messing with Jack's mind the moment he entered the hotel.

Che titolo ha la terrificante, angosciante ma bellissima musica in sottofondo?

After having read the book, i definitely prefer it. The book is not as ambiguous about whether or not the ghosts are real. They very much are. And Jack is very much under their control at the end. The movie makes it more ambiguous, where you could easily make an argument that there were no ghosts, and that Jack Torrence was simply a nasty drunk abusive husband and father who finally snapped because he was fed up of his family. In the book, Jack is a regretful, troubled man who has given up the drink and is trying hard to be better. Does he have problems? Oh yes. Is he always kind to his family? Definitely not. But he is nowhere near the irredeemable monster that movie Jack is. The book is definitely better in my opinion

Angel Heart the film takes place in January 1955. The Mickey Mouse Club was first broadcast on 3rd of October, 1955.

There's a couple of things you didn't notice. When walking up to the apartment doors. One as a 2 on it, the other has a sticker over the number, so you don't know if it's 1 or 3. The stroller is folded up neatly, and there's a bike by door number 2. When walking up the next time, the stroller is open, and there are 2 garbage cans by room number 2. Plus the floor as a lot of garbage on it. Plus, did Stanley Kubrick research the true spy network called the Alice network from ww1? Look into it. There's something there there. Peace through Ahev

I figured she was Lilith and that her intent was to lead Corso to immortality so that he could live with her for eternity

Harry looking in the broken mirror also evokes his face having being smashed and rebuilt into a new image during the war.

Excellent

When fans reverse direction, their purpose changes. They go from being cooling devices to being heating devices ( at least for ceiling fans ). If you notice in Angel Heart, as the story progresses, the heat increases. The character is getting closer to hell.

Tbh I think both you and Ager both over analyzed the crap out of this (respectfully). Just using the images in your video, the bear is thematically set up to be a representation of Danny. The first time we see it theyre Dannys laying on it and we see their heads at the same time. Then again later the bear looking doors are shooting out blood while Danny mimics their gaze by screaming. There are probably more examples but lets just go with those two. Danny is the bear, the bear is Danny. So if the bear is Danny, then the bear getting a blowie is danny...you know.

It looks like Pastor John has long nails just like Cyphre

The corridor running parallel to the office is around 30-40 feet before it turns right into another corridor. Ullman's office is maybe only half that length. There's room enough behind it for a small courtyard, though the exterior shots don't appear to show such a thing.

the kidnapping is not a thing… the two men were just reused extras.. the daughter has to move away to look at stuff in the store so that Bill and Alice can have an ‘adult’ conversation

Excellent observations, I didn't spot most of this

I believe there is a hidden message within the movie itself. I noticed certain references to the Arkanum and other symbols in the background as well! I guess one would have to watch the movie over and over to understand the references until the message is revealed!

To go along with the theme of two.. throughout the entire movie, when two people are talking to each other, one person constantly repeats what the other person just said to them.. like an echo so you hear the same thing twice

There's intense acting, and then there's Mickey Rourke during the entire third act. The man's just on his own level.

Watched this recently for the first time. IMO it had great promise but was almost entirely undone by the ending. In fact I’m not even sure it qualified as an ending, it just sort of stopped, a real shame. Still agree with your points about the moral ambiguity of most of the characters, and was certainly nice seeing the European locations, very atmospheric in places

Does anyone know what glasses Balkan is wearing. I really want a pair. Persol?

The Chick, who was Lilith (turned into black dog, liked riding Dragons, liked being on top), was aiming for Corso, all along. Everything was planned by Lilith.

My theory: (If I get it wrong, sorry) I think The Ceniza Brothers old, and the young movers are one and the same. The business with the ninth gate book is done, so they are leaving.

During his research, Corso studies a book about the Nine Gates that includes pictures of the engravings. I would assume that the pictures would have come from Fargas' copy, as he was the "nonbeliever", but I find it odd that neither Liana nor Kessler ever realized that the engravings in reference materials were not identical to the ones in their copy. It made me wonder if Balkan actually knew about it all along, and Corso's "quest" was just a pretext for Balkan to follow him and take the engravings.

Balkan didn't -- couldn't -- know that the final engraving was a forgery. The Ceniza Bros. forged that final engraving, and yet the Nameless Green-Eyed Girl KNEW about their forgery . . . because she's Lucifer Herself and they did what they did because they were in service to Her. She had long sought someone whom she could love, and after putting Corso through his paces -- she probably having got the ball rolling by convincing Telfer to sell Balkan the copy he'd bought for his wife from the Ceniza Bros. -- she CHOSE Corso, having him be the diabolical equivalent of the Virgin Mary, the mortal through whom she would bring the Antichrist into the world. After she'd gotten Corso to impregnate her, she left him alone at that gas station . . . but with the message to check out the Ceniza Bros. shop, where he just HAPPENS to be at the right place at the right time to see that original page from THE NINE GATES, the unaltered final engraving, when it fell to the floor. Corso, returning to the castle where Balkan had burned to death, has the Gate opened for him . . . the Light drawing him inside -- this being the diabolical equivalent of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, his reward for having fulfilled the will of the very womanly Devil. Why did she choose Corso, rather than Balkan who -- had he known that the Ceniza Bros. had the final engraving all along -- would surely have willingly put himself in service to her? Or the wheelchair-bound Baroness Kessler, who claims to have seen a MALE Lucifer years before? Or the harmless Fargas, sheltered with his diminishing book collection? Why choose CORSO over any of them? Did 'she' -- perhaps magically transformed into a male guise -- actually appear to Kessler years before? Or was that a delusion Kessler had been clinging to, her presumptions making the Devil out to be a MALE figure? Maybe the fact that Kessler had lost a limb had made her 'unworthy' -- like how physically handicapped people were forbidden from being in the presence of YHWH or the 'sacred' congregation back in Post-Exodus times. Balkan seems to have his own preconceptions about the Devil -- he, too, seeming to assume (wrongly) that the Devil is a MALE figure. He knows so much about the Devil . . . and yet, when he's giving his lecture, he can't see that the Devil HERSELF is attending it! It would never occur to Balkan that the Devil just MIGHT be Female instead. A powerful man like Balkan is blind to the possibility that the One he worships could ever be anything other than a powerful MALE figure. Fargas doesn't seem to be a worshiper of the Devil. Instead, he worships his BOOKS, the rarity of his copy of THE NINE GATES making it worth holding onto, never to part with it. He'll sell all his furniture first. Fargas loves his books, not the Devil -- so She has no use for him. There's the one scene in the hotel room, where Corso gets an ice-pack for the Girl to place behind her neck; she had taken an accidental elbow to her face during the struggle against Liana Telfer's henchman at the riverfront stairwell. She had intervened on Corso's behalf, and Corso, in a gentle moment, tells her, "You were really great down there at the river. I haven't thanked you for that." They share a silent moment, with him looking into her green eyes . . . and she uses the fingers of her RIGHT HAND to wipe blood from her embouchure onto his FOREHEAD and nose: 3 downward streaks of her Blood on his forehead -- Mark of the Beast? -- then ONE blood-streak down his nose. A metaphor, it seems, for the 3 books all containing ONE truth (i.e. the 'LCF' engravings). In other words, in that moment of tenderness, where he expressed appreciation for her 'divine intervention', this very feminine Devil chose Corso to be the mortal man through whom She would bring forth the Antichrist -- in time, if not right then. If Balkan had not thought to get Corso involved as a middle-man investigator to compare his newly-purchased copy of the Book with the Fargas and Kessler editions, Her plan to breed the Antichrist might never have come to fruition. But, of course, it HAD to happen, because the 9 engravings hinted at the journey Corso would find himself on . . . with She being the one who made sure that, for example, Bernie's corpse would end up being hoisted upside-down in the Hanged Man pose, to match one of the engravings. Maybe it was Chance that Balkan got Corso involved. Maybe she 'inspired' Balkan, somehow, into choosing Corso to be his book-detective. However it happened that Corso became a player in the 'game', She used him to her advantage, and Corso proved -- to Her satisfaction -- to be worthy of the diabolical honor to father Her long-foretold counterpart to Heaven's Christ.

Not a devil enthusiast, but I always kind of liked the girl. She was good looking and sort of cool.

Just read the book.

My favorite thing about this movie is that the devil prefers petty evil over grandiose displays. Corsoe is a selfish, scumbag, a devious business man, but with very little ambition. Balkan is a giant egoist who wants to rule over others. In the end, which one "wins" and which one dies in flames?

This is great!

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Very well-articulated voiceover. I really appreciate the effort you put into illustrating your analysis with effective language. Looking forward to more.

Actors tend to keep items from the filming. If I ever meet Johnny I’ll ask if he kept the engravings,

Even the release date of this movie was a deliberate easter egg. March 6th 1987...3/6

Love this movie, but the ending let's me down every time, I really want to see what happened to Corso after he walked into the light.

Question to ponder… who should have Dean aligned with instead?

This has been one of my favorite movies for ~20yrs. Has more layers than an onion.

Beautiful analysis 👍

love that actress, she can charm the devil himself.

Awesome movie, loved the blonde in it....

Love it when CineG puts out videos. Makes my day.

The Ninth Gate is one of the best films I’ve ever watched .

March 7th 1999 - January 1st 2001 = 666 days.

I thought the same thing when I first saw the movie as a kid. The reason why he should have said something is because it would explain what happened to Danny, ruling him out as a suspect. He just really didn't want to want to leave.

She literally kicks the crap out everyone, including Corso, throughout the whole movie. At 3:02.

"Even hell has its heroes." Yes, and the Ceniz Brothers were two of them.

2:41 Epstein and Maxwell behind Bill and Alice (also 2:46 Maxwell transforms in the next shot)

I just noticed that at least twice, Corso fell asleep when the girl was close by. Also that Devil's Tower was actually a Cathar castle and the Cathars were Gnostics and entwined with freemasonry and Sufism. Don't ask me how I know this, it would take too long.

It was a very trippy movie

Johnny and Harry had different gaits Who was the victim in the opening scene? [That was the woman who had gotten him pics of Johnny Favorite, who delivered those pics to Harry in a bar.] Spider died before Johnny arrived in Louisiana. You can see Spider and Evangeline at the Voodoo ritual seated apart from the living. Also people from the Harlem Church attended the Louisiana Voodoo ritual. The ‘giving of the nose shield’ was flagrant.

Brilliant ❤

The theme of abuse is also not "directly" depicted in A Clockwork Orange, that is completely meaningless distinction to make when talking Kubrick. We see the parole officer act creepy and touch his junk, we see the Church minister acting weird with Alex, the film is full of rerefences to it that are really not subtle at all. The reality is that after making Lolita kubrick felt horribly restricted by censors and from that film on he became a master at "getting shit past the radar" in terms of subtextual imagery. Hence in Dr Strangelove you have the famous opening with the bombers "fucking" when theyre just refuelling, or the planes appearing to be taking off from General Rippers crotch. Kubrick even confirmed this theme in a rare response letter to a critic from the time and said he was the only one to have noticed it. Taking that in mind with the obvious importace of floor patterns in The Shining look at the floor pattern in Room 237. Look at the creepy shot of Jacks reflection in the "fatherly love" scene where the jeans are hanging below to create an image of a "flasher" exposing themselves.