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Spider
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Modified: 13 August 2014, 6:41 AM User: Anthony Ramirez →
Opening credits:
yellowy, stained wallpaper with brown patches - creates the impression of a place poorly looked after - walls with bits of paint having fallen off - possibly symbolic of Spider's mind
Blots on wall paper look like Rorschach tests - establish that the film will be dealing explicitly with psychology
Piano Music:
"Over the mountains and over the waves/Under the fountains and under the graves/Under floods that are deepest which Neptune obey/Over rocks that are steepest love will found out the way” - 17th Century hymn - takes of floods - Neptune - god - and mountans and waves - "All Creatures Great and Small” vibe - perhaps expressing the idea that society has symbolically used religion to deal with inner trauma - look to God for help with your problem