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In 'Thanatopsis', Lydia Lunch meditates on death. Unemotionally, Lunch poetically philosophises as to whether mankind really has learned nothing from the gas chambers of Dachau, or from the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Somberly and soberly, Beth B. shows the poetess in her urban bastion. Lydia's red hair and her bright red lips contrast starkly with the grey images of her grey interior, but her words are heroic and her intonation expresses contempt for the warmongers and spillers of blood. Lunch presents a heroine who is earthly and fragile, a woman who feels the coming of the straw that will break the emotional camel's back. She suggests that all human beings have a magical language within them that can change history. We must look for that language. 'Thanatopsis' gives an indication of the healing power of that language.
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Erik Quint
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Idea: Stephan McHattie, Beth B.,
Text: Lydia Lunch,
With: Lydia Lunch,
Production: B Movies Inc.
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