AsenDURE @ Corner of 11th & 20th

“when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, a crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”

Okay, the 4th installment in The Crow Movie – Wicked Prayer, is rumored to be out this June, but then again they also said that in 2004 and in 2003, so I take it with a pinch of salt. While anticipating the movie, lets talk a little about The Crow. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, The Crow was born out of a man’s pain. The extreme pain and despair felt by James O’Barr, who loss his young wife in to a drunk driver. The Crow is not a single character but several. The Crow manifest itself in it’s Avatar, which answers only to his or her call to seek revenge. The only similarity is the way they were brought back or the force that brought them back, the reason they were brought back and….Oh, yeah, the fiend in the form of a crow.

James O’Barr’s Bio

As with all thing that has a groupie of fans, The Crow is no exceptions and regular fans have seen the effect it has on some of those new age ‘hippies’ ,that for some reason, are drawn to The Crow and seem to make it their system of worship, their religion. I guess it may be the same as the Jedi Cult from Star Wars. A quick search on google would bring up numerous websites dedicated to The Crow and it’s church. Christians fans seem few in the world of The Crow. But is it not only The Crow’s world Christians seem to shun, there is also Spawn and numerous others, and yet this is not true in the world of Batman, which is similarly dark, depressing and gothic. I suppose what really keeps them away is that The Crow is in direct contrast to our belief, in particular resurrection. In contrast, Christians that seem to be drawn to The Crow have a twofold reason. The theme of The Crow is a direct contradiction to what we have been taught to believe. A person cannot be resurrected for the purpose of revenge. Thus, for some of us, the premise of The Crow is very intriguing which is simply the immensely powerful idea of “what if”. We are fascinated by the idea that God might allow such an act to take place. Many Christians don’t see the many principles awarded to The Crow are also Christian values. The act of love so powerful that it overcomes death draws parallel to the purpose of Christ. Righting wrong and injustice is a similar attribute as well. The Crow is a mortal man’s way of expressing his belief in the power of death and love, and when you combine these two elements and you are going to spark the interest of a very diverse mix of people. For me personally, I think The Crow is the ultimate and purest expression of one’s love for another person that it transcended death itself, albeit driven by the motive of revenge.

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