THE SEVENTH SON
SOUNDS
IMAGES
EARTHWORMS
SMELLS
TEXTURE
FEELINGS
CHARACTERS
Mass of writhing worms
Worm dying in a palm
Cut in half
Coming back to life
healed back together
Child afraid of worms
HANDS
GOWNS
THORNS
SEA
FISH
VISIONS
SEASALT
INCENSE
MUSTYNESS
FARM
BLOOD IRON
SEAGULLS
CHANTING
PRAYING
HYMNS
SCREAMING
SEIZURE
WOOD
WORMS
SKIN
CONGEALED BLOOD
WORDS
messiah
prophet
god
jesus
cult
hysterical
faith
obsession
exorcism
island
isolation
devotion
conman
trickery
miracle
visions
cowshit
silage
Child screaming and suddenly cut short
prophecy
conman / woman
returning daughter
journalist
sociologist
preacher
prophet
incredible buddah boy
WORSHIP
boy with a mass of people, hands all on him
Rapidly editing between surreal scenes
CLIFFS
child surrounded with adults kneeling
diseased skin being touched by child's hands
people in all black surrounding one figure dressed in white
Diseased skin
STIGMATA
Freckles
LOCATIONS
HOTEL FUNCTION ROOM
STICKY CARPET
SLATE / GRANITE
sea crashing against rocks, endlessly
CLIFF EDGE
FARM
EVENTS
Father crushed in machine
FARM MACHINERY
Speaking in tongues
STIGMATA
feet RIGHT on the edge of a cliff
Figure in holy looking robes - With big headphones on
isolation
awe
anger at god
excitement
beehive monastic building
beekeepers costume
seventh son
Danny gallagher
Christina Gallagher
tradtional looking gown, a pair of new nikes visible below
church leader
media manager
'the importance of image'
QUESTIONS??
Can it be modern day?
Starting in 80s with his birth? At least going into fairly recent..
MUSIC
In story
for me
BLAZE - TERRITORY
GOSH - JAMIE XX
HUMBLE - KENDRICK LAMAR
stand on the word
leave a light on for me?
SCHOOLROOM
boring hymns
Love - always see your face
You want it darker leonard cohen
CHEAP NEWSPRINT
self printed declarations of messiah
calloused hands on spade
THE DEVIL
Damien from omen
tin drum
is it real?
seems like a con throughout but then becomes real?
ref: of maps and plans
kid killing a fish
thorns cutting into skin
replaced by fun upbeat hyms (ref Elmer Gantry)
boy praying, saying thank you, but he is crying
kid drinking wine
thomas rebels
drinking to get drunk
hooking up with a girl
demon
retreat
prison
tourists
peace
insanity
deception
snake // grass snake
Lizard in the grass
kids trying to catch it
kid killing insect / feeling bad
starting to believe
DAMP
isolation within a crowd
belonging
HEALING HANDS
teeth clashing
murmuring
goes outside the boundaries of the land
meets local kids
watches a local pub
homemade tattoo
hands interlocking in a black void
hands being pulled apart roughly
diseased skin and having to touch it
HYSTERIA
DELUSION
Choreography surreal visions
CULT RITUALS
having to line up naked
ref: Pina Bauch - surreal scenes
Ryan Heffernan
A TV Station come to interview them (ref RTE archive)
SHED / SHADE
What's the time span of the story?
detailed understanding of the family... where are his brothers?!
HAY PILE
BOG
TURF CUTTING
Big moments? IDA death......
how big is the community?
how famous does he get?
OBJECTS
Posters
Displayboards
Cross
Donations box
News clippings of examples of cures
Candle
Holy water
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Letters - thanking him for the cure
DIALOGUE
It is a burden, but it's a burden I like, because healing people is worth the burden
Silver cross held between hands and afflicted area
My challenge to the skeptics is to go talk to the cured
candle spontaneously igniting
priest from pulpit: I would warn you about seeking solace from supernatural and preturnatual effects.
Priest: That would appear to me as in the category of mere trivia
I take it to be a god given gift, and the way it's come to me I see it as higher than the church.
Cure everybody. Relieve human suffering.
The attributing of preternatual or supernatural effects to a thing that is mere trivial, are always viewed by the church as something to be very cautius about, and something to look upon with great reservation
I've saw people lying in the bed, paralysed, up walking. I've saw a child dying from leukemia completely cured, another lady dying from internal cancer completely cured
I wanted the seventh son. People prayed let it be a girl and I said NO, Let this one be a boy. And god sent him to us
Well I always heard that the seventh son was a lucky child. So when he arrived, a certain priest, a seventh son said to him.
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People knocking on the windows at night asking for The Cure
Event that nobody turns up for...
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Finbar Nolan - He was 17 when a media discovery led to thousands flocking to his remote home, and has since then experienced many highs and lows including bankruptcy.
Ringworm
When he was about two weeks old. One of the older boys took a worm and lifted it over the child's hand and it was dead. So he got another and did the same and it was dead. So we didn't pay it much attention and then one o the little girls came and she had ringworm and asked if he could cure it. And I said he was too small but the little girl coaxed him out. He blew on the ringworm and it got better in a few days. So then I sort of believed he had it then.
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