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He can give Patricia Arquette the stigmata and make her eyes turn red and have her speak in a man's voice in ancient languages and send her spiraling aloft in her apartment until she ends up crucified in midair.
Certainly since Erving Goffman's seminal work on stigma in the early 1960s, stigma (plural stigmata) has been recognized as “an attribute that is significantly discrediting,” and it is known as a potent and painful force in individual lives [15].
It includes Jan Van Eyck’s St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata and works by Roger Van Der Weyden, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hans Memling, and François Clouet.
I can hardly blame Director Kevin Smith ( Clerks , Chasing Amy ) for complaining that no one's going after the current box-office leader Stigmata , which is violent, bloody, highly anti-Catholic, or for telling the New York Daily News , "Next time, I'll just make a stupid stoner flick, and leave it alone."
This would-be thriller gets punctured by the critics: "Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism--from a theological point of view" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The film stars Patricia Arquette as a beautician who is mysteriously afflicted with stigmata after receiving a rosary with a history from her mother.