Friday, May 15, 2015

Heaven (1987)




This is truly one of the most strange and screwy films I have ever seen...and to think it was made by Diane Keaton!!  It really deals more with death and what people have to say about "heaven" as a concept.  I've been waiting for an opportunity to view this on a Friday Fright Night again, which I haven't done since 2006. That day turned into the day when I found out a cousin of mine had died in an early morning plane crash...in Pat Robertson's private Lear Jet. I've been feeling the need to confront it ever since.  The reason it's here today is because it has a brief and really amusingly poignant appearance in full danza regalia of Maestro Lazaro Arvizu of Xipe Totec Danza Azteca (when he still had a moustache!).  Asked if he believes in Heaven, he simply answers "no."  Quite the thing given in the original Mexican religion had 13 Heavens and 9 Hells.  Trick question perhaps, he was asked about "heaven"--maybe Keaton should have said "heavens"....  He pops up again in a small flash in "Hell" section of the film.

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