It is unbiblical, it is unnatural,” the Anglican cleric told CNN. “Homosexuality is not natural, it is unnatural. Canon John Awodi declares vehemently that “homosexuality is a sin that must be repented of,” adding that it is against the “order of God.” Hitchcock does one of the things he does best: shoving a mirror in our face, showing us parts of ourselves we’d rather not acknowledge.In between leading Sunday services at All Saints’ Cathedral in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, Rev. “Well ok what he does is not right, but what about what he says or feels.” you begin to bargain with yourself. Why should I have to be the one to struggle and-“ “Well yes I do too despise the aging idle rich, the way they sit on their wealth and do nothing. In the same vein you find yourself sickened by him yet you can’t help but nod your head, and fall into a trance as he spits his venom. Not to mention a relationship that is almost incestuous, yet never consummated, with his much younger ‘niece’ that seems to predict the compulsions of Travis Bickle. He acts as a premonition for later unstable, tortured and nihilistic screen characters in the ‘literally me’ cannon, with his bitter, disillusioned and misanthropic tirades. What really elevates this affair is Hitchcock’s antagonist, Uncle Charlie, played expertly by Joseph Cotten. He seems to serve as a living disillusionment, a reminder of the ‘real world’ that lurks behind (or perhaps under) every street corner, a personification of moral decay and class resentment. What does it matter what happens in it?”Ī sappy and saccharine caricature of an idyllic middle class all-American family is invaded by a walking shadow. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell.
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