Barker the forbidden6/3/2023 Woman is shown as a temptation that only leads you to enslavement, or even worse if we think of John the Baptist. She is supposed to titillate and fascinate, in one word entrap you through your eyes into her own domination. Salome's dancing is pure movement amplified by the veils and magnified by the bathing suit she is wearing under the veils. Salome is a great evocation of the Bible playing on essentially shadow and light. He is particularly fascinated by the male body as a direct representative of human destiny, human lot, man's history. He is interested in the body, its suffering, its confinement, its torturing, its structure, looks, excitement and excitation, etc. But they are not because of Barker's fantastical (as he says) imagination. Both films have in common that they are pocket money films, done with so little budget that they could have been a pure waste of time. In fact it is a revealer about Clive Barker's imagination and interests more than anything else. It does not bring anything to it to say it is an illustration of Faust. The Forbidden is a work that could and should stand all by itself. John is shown as a young beardless angel who is of course loved and tortured by Salome. Salome is a reference to the Bible, John the Baptist and King Herod. Two short black and white films by Clive Barker from the time when he was a student in Liverpool with a couple of friends who will become associates later on in Hollywood.
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