Alice, Sweet Alice isn't a theological statement. Not solely. It doesn't posit lazy anti-Catholic bloviations or make the faithful into fools; it uses the imagery, the fables, the metaphors as inspiration for making a smartly, sickly compelling narrative of wickedness and the tragedy of tainted innocence.
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Greg Cwik writes, often about movies, sometimes for money. He's a regular contributor to Vulture and Indiewire, and his work also appears in The Believer Magazine, Slant, Sound on Sight, Movie Mezzanine, and elsewhere. THE SOPRANOS > THE WIRE.
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