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AGNES: Where do you think babies come from?
MARTHA: From their mothers and fathers of course. Before that, I... I don't know.
AGNES: Well I think they come from... angel lies on their mothers chest and whispers into her ear. That makes good babies start to grow.
And bad babies come from when a fallen angel squeezes in down there, and they start to grow, grow, till they come out down there. I don't know where good babies come out.
And you can't tell the difference... except bad babies cry a lot... and they make their fathers go away... and their mothers get very ill... die sometimes.
Mummy wasn't very happy when she died… and, I think she went to hell because every time I see her she looks like she just stepped out of a hot shower, and I... I'm never sure if it's her, or the Lady who tells me things! They fight over me all the time.
[Agnes stares into space]
The Lady... I saw when I was ten. I was lying on the grass, looking at the sun, and the sun became a cloud, and the cloud became, a Lady. And she told me she would talk to me. And then... her feet began to bleed and I saw there... there were holes in her hands and in her side.
And I tried to catch the blood as it fell from the sky, but I couldn't see any more because my eyes hurt because there were big black spots in front of them. And she tells me things like, like... right now she's crying Marie! Marie! ... but I don't know what that means.
[Martha stands up, disturbed. Agnes is delirious with happiness.]
AGNES (Cont.):... and... she uses me to sing, it's as if she's throwing a big hook through the air and it catches me under my ribs and tries to pull me up, and I... I can't move because Mommy's holding my feet and all I can do is sing in her voice... it's the Lady's voice, God loves you!
[Agnes’ cry echoes all around and the doves fly out of the
belltower.]
AGNES (Cont.) (to Martha): God loves you.
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"They're suffering,
It's beautiful,
I want to be beautiful"
"I want to suffer like a little kid"
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Agnes of God (1985). When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.
God, what a cast. Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly all really deliver in this beautifully shot film which questions ideas of faith, morality and managing trauma. When it's good in that sense, it's really, really good, but it never quite commits to itself. It's open-ending ends up feeling less like deliberate, thoughtful ambiguity and more like the writers couldn't quite decide how they felt or what they believed, which does let it down. Still a really interesting watch though and worth checking out! 7/10.
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