I should add that when I say "spiritual" I do not at all mean
to suggest that there is a sense of the spiritual realm in the
world of the film. I refer more to a feeling of new
understanding or realization than one as potentially psychotic
as epiphany or revelation. It's just that this feeling is so
powerful and transporting that it makes one, especially
someone like me, an atheist with a strong affinity for much
that is Catholic, want to evoke the imagery of religious
experience. I am moved. We are moved, and I think de Toth like
many artists wishes to move us. Perhaps I shouldn't be ashamed
about what words I use, and I'm not really, but I do wish to
be clear here that this stems from no exaggeration of the
film. Rather I wish to capture the contradiction at the finale
between a sense of ecstasy and devastation.

edo