Longlegs: Crimson or Clover | Film Interpretation

In this episode, I ask the question: what is the fundamental nature of films? If they are more than entertainment, what are they? As an example, I discuss Oz Perkins' Longlegs and how it can be interpreted from a personalistic or collective dimension.

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Show notes

- Longlegs (2024), by Oz Perkins (IMDb)

- Ruth in the Bible (Wikipedia)

- Oz Perkins interview (source)

- St. Patrick: The Trinity and the Shamrock (source)

- Understanding The Symbol Of Crimson (Red Color) In The Biblical Context (source)

- "[Green] signifies hope and the future […] in alchemy green also means perfection." "The blessed greenness, signifying on the one hand the ‘leprosy of the metals’ (verdigris), but on the other the secret immanence of the divine spirit of life in all things." "They called all things green, for to be green means to grow . . . Therefore this virtue of generation and the preservation of things might be called the Soul of the World." (Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14, par 622ff)

- "Green is what lust leaves behind, in heart, in womb. Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die, too." (from David Lowery's The Green Knight)

- "The rubedo then follows direct from the albedo as the result of raising the heat of the fire to its highest intensity." (Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14, par 334)

- "The growing redness (rubedo) which now follows denotes an increase of warmth and light coming from the sun, consciousness. This corresponds to the increasing participation of consciousness, which now begins to react emotionally to the contents produced by the unconscious. At first the process of integration is a “fiery” conflict, but gradually it leads over to the “melting” or synthesis of the opposites." (Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14, par 307)

- "The development of the prima materia up to the rubedo depicts the conscious realization of an unconscious state of conflict which is henceforth kept in consciousness." (Carl Jung, Alchemical Studies, CW 13, par 1702)

- "Although the opposites flee from one another they nevertheless strive for balance, since a state of conflict is too inimical to life to be endured indefinitely." (Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14, par 307)