(Netflix series House of Cards) President Underwood spits on a statue, on Christ’s face. The President starts to wipe off the spit and the statue falls and breaks apart.
I have given some thought to this very powerful scene; trying to find meaning beyond an artistic coup.
This spitting is the culminating step, the crossing of a point of no return, by a President who has become corrupt, step-by-step one small decision after another throughout his ascent and rein, to the point of being beyond redemption.
This is a scary thought. For anyone. Not just Presidents.
The series also raises an interesting question, one that I don’t think it can satisfactorily answer: Is Christ, and the promise of Christ, hollow, like the statue? Or was Christ broken even for President Underwood, who even though he destroyed himself will still be redeemed?
~Jim
no, the Christ is not broken. You have to understand Jesus Christ and his relationship to God to properly form the question. Christ was not an ordinary man – of course. I hope you study this more to fully understand. House of Cards is a TV show desperately grasping for what ever symbols of good and evil it can find without fully understanding the underlying relationships in this situation. For me this scene went too far – Of course Frank would end up choosing the devil and spitting in the face of Christ.
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