The Passion of Darkly Noon

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The Passion of Darkly Noon
Image:The Passion of Darkly Noon.jpg
Directed by	Philip Ridley
Starring	Brendan Fraser Ashley Judd Viggo Mortensen
Release date(s)	1995
Running time	min.
Country	U.K. / Germany / Belgium
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Passion of Darkly Noon is a 1995 film written and directed by Philip Ridley, starring Brendan Fraser in the title role, and co-starring Ashley Judd and Viggo Mortensen.

Plot

The film tells the story of a young man named Darkly Noon (Fraser), whose family was a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult. After a violent altercation that resulted in the dissolution of the cult and the death of Darkly's parents, Darkly wanders into a forest in an unnamed locale and is rescued from exhaustion by a coffin transporter named Jude (Loren Dean) and his friend Callie (Ashley Judd).

Callie nurses Darkly back to health, but Darkly is frustrated by the conflict between his religious past and his attraction to his new companion. Things only get more intense with the return of Clay (Viggo Mortensen), her mute boyfriend who builds the coffins Jude sells.

When Darkly encounters a mysterious woman named Roxy (Grace Zabriskie), his internal conflicts grow even stronger. Roxy claims that Callie is a witch, bent on destroying Roxy's family, including Clay, who is her son.

Finally, in the film's climax, Darkly's rage boils over. Armed with one of Clay's coffin-making tools, he bursts into the house with the intention of murdering Callie and Clay, whom he discovers in the act of committing a sin of the flesh. After a scene of horrific destruction, Darkly is finally tamed by Callie's confession that she loves him. Tragically, Jude has already arrived to dispatch of Darkly with a rifle, leaving him to die after uttering his final lamentation: "Who will love me now?"

Trivia

Darkly received his unusual name from a passage in the bible, (1 Corinthians 13), "Now we see through a glass, darkly...".

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