The passion of the Darkly Noon

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German title The passion of the Darkly Noon
Original title The Passion of Darkly Noon
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 100 (PAL-DVD) minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Philip Ridley
script Philip Ridley
production Dominic Anciano , Frank Henschke , Alain Keytsman
music Nick Bicat
camera John de Borman
cut Leslie Healey
occupation

The Passion of Darkly Noon is (after Scream in Silence ) the second feature film by the British playwright, director and writer Philip Ridley . The film drama was shot in 1995 in Saxon Switzerland (East Germany) and on the Potsdam-Babelsberg studio site.

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At the beginning a young man stumbles through a forest. When he collapses unconscious, he is almost run over by Jude, the driver of a pickup truck. He takes him with him and takes him to Callie in the middle of the forest, who lives here in solitude with her dumb friend Clay in a wooden house. While the carpenter and coffin carpenter Clay is out for a few days, Callie nurses the boy to health, who has a Bible with him as his only possession. As it turns out, his name is Darkly Noon and he and his parents belonged to a controversial, fanatical sect that was apparently downright wiped out in an attack. His first name refers to Paul's first letter to the Corinthians ( 1 Cor 13:12  KJV ).

Callie would like to take the stuttering, insecure and uptight seventeen-year-old into her small family, which Clay initially agrees with.

Darkly develops an obsession for the attractive Callie, which is in stark contrast to his sex-hostile development. When he sees Callie and Clay kissing, it is too much for him. He has to endure how the two love each other every night even though they are not married to each other. He is torn between his strictly religious beliefs and his growing sexual desire for Callie, who in turn looks at him more as the child she will never have.

So on the one hand he is attracted, on the other hand shocked by the life Callie leads: she smokes, drinks alcohol, walks around in sexy clothes and lives in an extramarital relationship with Clay.

When Darkly wanders desperately through the forest, he meets an elderly woman in a trailer in the middle of the forest. He learns that she is Clay's mother and that her husband once found Callie as an orphan in the woods and took her home. In the eyes of Roxy, Callie is a witch who seduced and killed her husband (but in fact he wanted to abuse the girl and suffered a heart attack in the process). Roxy manages to convince the boy that Callie is a witch , and he decides to make amends for her sins by killing the young woman.

He scourges himself with barbed wire and armed himself with a Clay rifle. When he visits the couple in his house, the two are just getting intimate - in his eyes they are committing the sin of carnal lust. He tries to kill the lovers and a terrible fight breaks out. Eventually, Callie can calm him down by claiming she loves him. Unfortunately for him, Jude comes by and helps the young people - he shoots Darkly. The last words of the dying are: "Who will love me now?"

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