Dogma (film) Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of The Visual Text Analogy of "dogma" a Film Askew Production.

Dogma (film) Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of The Visual Text Analogy of "dogma" a Film Askew Production.
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The Visual Text Analogy of "dogma" a Film Askew Production

Summary: Dogma (1999) was a satirical film on the Catholic Church and its rules and superstitions. Two angels, Loki, the angel of death who reigned down god's fiery wrath, are exiled from heaven from disobeying god and are exiled to Wisconsin. However, with help from another misguided mystical being they uncover a loophole in catholic dogma which would allow them to enter heaven. But, unknowen to them, unmake the world in the process. This essay is a look at the satirical techniques used.
English Satire

The Visual Text analogy

Dogma (1999)

A Film Askew Production

Dogma (1999) was a satirical film on the Catholic Church and its rules and superstitions. Two angels, Loki, the angel of death who reigned down god's fiery wrath,

"When Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed? That was Loki. When the waters wiped out everything with the exception of Noah and his menagerie? That was Loki, and he was good at what he did"

~Metatron, voice of the one true god

And Bartleby a Gringory

"They're watchers, guess what they do"

~Metatron, voice of the one true god

are exiled from heaven to god forsaken Wisconsin for defying God, they are given a chance to re-enter heaven through a loophole in Catholic Dogma that states that all that the church holds true on earth god will hold true in heaven (said by the son of god), and due to the...

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