Wise Blood - 1979 - 6/10
“… where the blind can’t see, the lame don’t walk, and what’s dead stays that way …”
Hazel Motes (a riveting Brad Dourif), recently discharged from the Army, starts his own street church.
Actually, his Church Without Christ is more of an anti-church.
Quietly poses the disquieting notion (in the 60’s and 70‘s) of whether Jesus, should he return today, would he be a Christian or would he form his own denomination? How far astray has Christianity wandered?
The canvas is over-weighted with Southern oddballs, weirdos, eccentrics, all of whom scream stereotypes.
Yes, small towns boast one or two, but this town must be where a pack of them overwinter.
Harry Dean Stanton memorable as religious competition, the blind faith healer.
