Thursday, November 19

Douglas Sirk's Underbelly #5

Donning a polo, khakis and loafers a youth has a beer on the church house steps and makes his exit. 1957.

11 comments:

Arbogast said...

"I wonder how much beer's left in that can."

Greg said...

Somehow ironic that the beer he chose was "Lucky Lager." I mean, from this angle, he's not looking too lucky, obviously.

bill r. said...

There's something weird about the blood in that picture. This is a suicide, right? So why is there so much blood at the bottom of the steps. Had it been a murder, I would have thought he got shot on the sidewalk, and made it to the door before collapsing, but the gun and the beer don't support that.

Something fishy's going on here. Also, I watched ZODIAC last night, so...

Arbogast said...

I would guess there is a slope to the well-worn steps and that that angle carried the blood stream down from step to step to where it pools on the sidewalk.

Let's not rule out the possibility that the beer was already there - it is a church, after all.

bill r. said...

That must be it, but the pattern still seems odd to me. I think it was the Masons.

Greg said...

yeah, I think it dripped down to one step, pooled, then to the next, pooled, then to the ground where all the excess pooled. Jesus Bill, haven't you ever passed by a suicide on church steps before?

Also, I feel strange making jokes about this.

bill r. said...

Okay, so it's a slope. But at first glance it looked weird.

I don't know why you're joking about this either. You and Arbogast started it. And I was serious about the Masons thing, so you can't even say I did it, too.

Greg said...

I mentioned the name of the beer that's all. I mean, he really isn't looking lucky. Maybe the brand choice was a final ironic comment he was leaving for the world.

Arbogast said...

Do you think Charles Mason killed the guy or was it one of the so-called "Mason Family"?

Greg said...

I think it was Mason Adams himself and I bet he Nuped him with Nuprin. That bastard.

Anonymous said...

forgot the part where he has his head blown off

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